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Government to help pay light bills for almost half a million households and ease high fuel prices for bus and tax operators. We’re going for growth right now!

The Meteorological Service of Jamaica is improving the way we understand the weather through its latest initiative: the Building Resilience through Climate Adaptation Technologies (BReTCAT) project.

Jamaica will soon have its own weather app to give more precise data and warnings that other global apps cannot provide. It’s being created as part of the ‘Building Resilience Through Climate Adaptation Technologies (BRETCAT) project being spearheaded by the Meteorological Service of Jamaica (MSJ).

Jamaica is known as the land of wood and water. But for persons living in the corporate area, water lock offs, or low water pressure is what many would term “a common assault”. And with climate change affecting rainfall patterns water storage is in limited supply. The government has been exploring several measures to boost water supply and one such...

Public sector compensation restructure to increase wage bill but that shouldn’t compromise Jamaica’s debt targets. Finance Minister Dr. Nigel Clarke explains in this week’s going for growth!

Neko ‘Bootlegrocstar’ Kelly, is the 2022 recipient of the Prime Minister’s Youth Award for Excellence in Arts and Culture. The Prime Minister’s Youth Awards recognises Jamaicans under the age of thirty who have achieved local and international success. Neko shares his journey with us.

If you’re an entrepreneur this process may seem familiar. You have a good idea for a small business and after doing some research you realize that you need money to get it off the ground. After talking with family members, friends and scraping your savings you find out you still need a little extra. Getting a loan from the bank...

No new taxes…again! Has this move been helping the economy? Find out on this week’s Going for Growth.

We feature the Old Harbour High School in St. Catherine and Petersfield Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland. Both schools reopened for the full resumption of face-to-face classes on Monday, March 7, 2022.

Imagine moving across the world to study in an unfamiliar territory, only to have your life turned completely upside down. Well for more than 20 Jamaican students who were adapting to life in Ukraine, this was the reality when geo-political tensions escalated between that country and another former Soviet State, Russia. Listen to their stories.

Jamaica has lots of plants and trees with medicinal properties as well as unique fragrancies. But, what if you wanted to create an aromatic oil or fragrance from one of the plants or tress to sell to interested persons? Here’s another question - what if there was a place where you could do that and get help to start a...

On a previous programme, we explored the Bank of Jamaica’s Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, as we explained a recent transfer mix up at one of the island’s commercial banks. In this episode, we take things a step further and look at the relationship between RTGS and JAM-DEX, the Jamaica digital exchange.