The Vision for Health 2030 This Vision for Health 2030 is Jamaica’s 10-year strategic plan outlining the national… View the Vision for Health 2030 The Health Sector Plan is more than a blueprint…
Education Minister mourns loss of four students in St. Ann crash
Education Minister Dr. Dana Morris Dixon says support teams will be deployed to all three…
JCSA calls off protest regarding transportation arrangements for public sector workers
The Jamaica Civil Service Association and the government have reached an agreement over…
Patterson blasts Jamaica’s UNGA vote on Cuban embargo, Foreign Minister challenges his assertions
Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson and the current Foreign Minister, Kamina Johnson Smith, have…
Pay late, rebuild slowly: Jamaica’s prompt payment dilemma
One of the fastest ways to put contractors out of business, slow down work, and earn a reputation as a government nobody wants to do business with is to pay late. Word in…
Social media real estate posts face regulatory scrutiny
The Real Estate Board has opened a review of its code of ethics to set standards for how agents advertise property on social media and has sued a company it alleges brokered property…
Mandeville to get steady water by Christmas
Mandeville will get a more reliable water supply before Christmas, ending years of shortages in that town, Water, Environment and Climate Change Minister Matthew Samuda said on Thursday. It aims to solve the…
BPO workers and founders must pivot as sector contracts, says BOJ governor
Business process outsourcing (BPO) workers and founders must pivot as artificial intelligence (AI) cuts the industry’s need for workers, Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Dr Brian Langrin said on Friday. It comes as…
Palace bets on arcades and bars as film revenue falls
The Palace Amusement Company (1921) Limited plans to lean less heavily on film, building entertainment zones for children and adults as its annual loss widened to $190.2 million and its auditor flagged doubt…
Densil Williams | Modernise or die: It is that simple
The literature on economic competitiveness, both at the microeconomic and macroeconomic levels, was not born by accident. It is derived from deep analytical and reflective work on what we refer to as the…
Shirley Botchwey | The Commonwealth has 2.7 billion reasons to act
Ours is not a new realisation. The Commonwealth is responding to what world leaders have acknowledged for many years: ‘business as usual’ cannot reverse the unsustainable course on which the world finds itself,…