A group of private-sector shareholders involved in a longstanding plan to develop Port Royal as a heritage tourism destination have applied for leave to bring derivative action to the Supreme Court against the state-owned Urban Development...
The Westmoreland Municipal Corporation has launched an investigation to determine if homeowners at the gated community of Negril Estate and the developer Reading Holdings Limited have been compliant before deciding to intervene in a dispute between...
Jamaica is set to introduce rapid antigen testing that will have a faster turnaround in results than the model originally backed by the Government. Also called F200, the COVID-19 antigen testing will come on stream in October. However, the new...
For the first time in three decades, residents of St James Southern are set to have a new member of parliament (MP). When the constituents enter the voting booth on September 3, it will be the first time in more than 30 years they will not see...
While acknowledging the role and responsibility of a government to protect its citizens and intervene when lives are disrupted, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is calling for a deeper conversation about the future of sugar, but is adamant that his...
Western Bureau: The Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ) is now in talks with key regulatory services to develop the operating standards for a sustainable work-at-home regime by September 19 as the arrangement sparked by the COVID-19...
Western Bureau: It is a massive show of goodwill. The Temple of Restoration Ministries, based in Brooklyn, New York, has been delivering care packages to the nation’s most needy across 12 parishes over the past eight weeks, which they hope is...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) has advised Prime Minister Andrew Holness against allowing the creation of virtual SEZs to facilitate the outsourcing sector’s plan to have 25 per cent of its labour pool working...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) has signalled to the Government that it has no objection to operators in the BPO sector being granted a special extension to its...
USED-CAR DEALERS who play by the rules are now being left behind, as a flood of new operators are employing deviant strategies to sell imported second-hand vehicles, reducing the industry to a free-for-all. “We are not happy and our members at...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some of the leading developers of space in western Jamaica are now taking a wait-and-see attitude towards the COVID-19 sparked work-from-home (WFH) arrangement, which some outsourcing firms are expressing an interest in expanding....
Despite the establishment of a pre-shipment regime by the Government to protect consumers, unsuspecting Jamaicans are still being deceived by unscrupulous used-car dealers who are rolling back the mileage generated on vehicles in the country of...
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If she were allowed to have her own way, Mildred’s (not her real name) husband would not have travelled to Canada on the overseas farm work programme this year as he has been doing for the past 19 years. However, her...
Seventeen Jamaicans are among 47 workers employed to Greenhill Produce in Chatham-Kent, Canada, who have contracted the coronavirus disease and have been placed in isolation. Forty-five of the positive cases are migrant workers and two are members...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE UMBRELLA group for BPOs is appealing to the Government to make it mandatory for all outsourcing firms operating in Jamaica to register with the representative body to ensure good governance in the sector. Of the 68 BPOs, or...
Uncertainty now hangs over the lucrative business process outsourcing (BPO) sector after the Government announced a 14-day lockdown of the industry within the next 24 hours, but has offered exemptions to operators who support critical private- and...
WESTERN BUREAU: International outsourcing firm Alorica says it is in full compliance with the protocols established by the Jamaican authorities and has rubbished suggestions that negligence on the firm’s part resulted in 52 of its workers being...
WESTERN BUREAU: Inconsistencies in the local telephony infrastructure and recurrent disruptions in electricity are the main challenges being faced by business process outsourcing (BPO) employees who have been working from their homes over the past...
WESTERN BUREAU: Seventy-four-year-old Roy Burns has been picking apples in Vermont for nearly 40 years, but while the United States seasonal agricultural programme has been beneficial to him and his family, he will not report for work this year. At...
Western Bureau: PUBLIC HEALTH officials from the Ministry of Health and Wellness are conducting assessments of all local outsourcing firms to ensure adherence to the restrictions implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The global services sector...
WESTERN BUREAU: Davon Crump, chief executive officer of business process outsourcing outfit Global Outsourcing Solutions Limited (GOSL), will probably never forget the look of despair on the faces of some of his employees when...
Western Bureau: Dermon Spence, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), has rubbished claims that the foray into representational politics by Phillip Henriques, chairman of the Sugar Enterprise...
WESTERN BUREAU: Several local outsourcing operators are still in dialogue with their clients regarding the implementation of work-at-home (WAH) arrangement for their agents to minimise the risk of potential infection from the coronavirus (COVID-19...
Western Bureau: The Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ) is awaiting the green light from the Government for a waiver on duties on computers for its members to support a planned work-at-home (WAH) regime, which is...
