Opposition Spokesperson on Finance, Audley Shaw, has recommended that the Government develop an overseas work programme to provide more employment opportunities for Jamaicans outside of the traditional areas of farming...

The Jamaica Information Service (JIS) is to receive an increased budgetary allocation of $170.6 million for capital expenditure in the 2015/2016 Budget to relocate the Television Department to premises at...

Jamaica is currently ranked 64 out of 146 nations in the 2014 Forbes Best Countries for Business Report. Making the disclosure, Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. the Hon. Peter...

Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips, says the country passing all the required International Monetary Fund (IMF) quarterly tests, has helped to boost business confidence, which is...

The Government is expected to make the first major repayment of $62 billion on maturing bonds issued under the National Debt Exchange (NDX), in the first quarter of the next...

The highly profitable Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry is poised to reap significant benefits for the local economy, with the generation of some 15,000 additional jobs over the next five...

The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) approved a total of 8,844 loans valued at $3.3 billion to Micro, Small and Medium-size Enterprises (MSMEs), during the first 11 months of the 2014/15...

The Government has established a new Labour Market Reform Commission to undertake work which will ensure that industrial relations practices facilitate higher levels of productivity, and are compatible with modern...