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The Foreign Exchange Global Code developed by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has been formally adopted in the Jamaican market. The Code’s adoption is one of several foreign exchange market reforms initiated by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) in 2017. The Foreign Exchange Global Code provides a common set of guidelines for all authorised foreign exchange trading entities for promoting the...

For the month of July, the National Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons undertook several activities to raise public awareness about the heinous crime of human trafficking, which mainly affects the country’s most vulnerable citizens. Manager at the Trafficking in Persons Secretariat in the Ministry of Justice, Chenee Russell, sat with JIS Studio 58A host Vaughn Davis recently to outline some...

Many Jamaicans in the Diaspora hold positions of prominence and use their positions to assist where needed here at home. One such individual is Mayor of Miramar, Florida in the United States, Wayne Messam. Messam is a first generation American. His parents and siblings, who were all born in Manchester, migrated to the United States many years ago in pursuit of...

The wheels have been set in motion for another Emancipendence Festival Season and government is pulling out all the stops to make every year better than the last. Festival Bandwagons and vigils have been scheduled for all parishes and the Independence Village will be teeming with activity throughout the season. But, it’s the annual Independence Grand Gala that everyone will be...

Converting tyres into energy, it’s a solution now being piloted by Caribbean Cement Company under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government to remove some 1.5 to 2 million tyres from the Riverton City disposal site. The move is aimed at reducing the risks and harmful effects on the environment from having these tyres out in the open.

The Government of Jamaica is working hard to make life better for everyone. Evidence of this can be seen all around us, through the numerous road improvement projects, efforts to strengthen the social safety net, and lower the country’s unemployment rate, which recently reached its lowest ever rate in the country’s history. In spite of this, all these gains can...

Many persons across Jamaica have great potential but with limited resources, no job and little hope for obtaining a higher education. But the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment Programme, has been providing HOPE for persons. More than 24,000 youth have been successfully trained under the programme to date, all of whom have been equipped with the knowledge, skills and experience...

Employment is on the rise but so too is the economy which grew by 1.7 percent in the first quarter of 2019 when compared with the same quarter of 2018.Mining and quarrying and Hotels and Restaurants came up big for the period under review. We share the numbers on today programme as we continue going for growth with the Statistical...