Improving Public Bureaucracy

Slow, inefficient and unproductive are some of the words often used to describe many public sector processes. This reality causes a lot of Jamaicans frustration when doing business with the government. That narrative is about to change. We’ll tell you all about it on this week’s going for growth.

The Government of Jamaica is recognized as the country's largest single employer, maintaining a public sector workforce of roughly 100,000 workers. Another way in which the Government stimulates employment in the country is through the provision of work contracts to private sector organisations. In recent years heavy focus has been placed on increasing the number of private entities eligible to...

Jamaicans have a strong desire to own their own home, however, prices on the market make that goal out of reach for many. So, to meet the demand and encourage an increase in the development of affordable housing the National Housing Trust (NHT) recently launched the ‘Small Developers Programme’.