The Jamaica Bankers Association (JBA) has suggested some of the proposed requirements under the Data Protection Act will make conducting business with banks more complex for customers. The claim was made by David Garcia, who represented the JBA at...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that Jamaica needs to accelerate public sector wage negotiations as further delays pose significant risks to the government’s fiscal accounts. The IMF says the wage negotiations should be...
The Real Estate Board says it was able to prevent home purchasers losing over $14 billion in deposits on new developments in the 2015-2016 financial year. The figure was revealed in its annual report tabled in parliament on Tuesday. The Real Estate...
Human Rights group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is supporting the government’s plan to allow prisoners conjugal visits, saying it will help to facilitate continuation of family relationships and better reintegration when inmates are released....
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Global Affairs at the University of the West Indies, Dr Richard Bernal, has asserted that the US travel ban presents an opportunity which can be exploited by Jamaica. People from six mainly Muslim countries and all...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness wants Jamaican investors to help to accelerate growth by placing funds now held in pension and insurance schemes into real investments that will create jobs. Holness made the appeal today at the groundbreaking ceremony...
Transport Minister Mike Henry says the government cannot force the developer of the North-South Highway to reduce the proposed toll rates without taxpayers footing the bill. Henry says the proposed toll rates published last week are not magical...
Businessman Patrick Casserly has switched allegiance from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to the People’s National Party (PNP), and has cast doubt on the JLP’s personal income tax plan in his wake. But on the eve of the country’s...
One of the country's largest chicken producers, Jamaica Broilers, says it expects that the current shortage of chicken on the market should begin to ease by the end of the week. Wholesalers and consumers have been complaining that they have not...
The police have released new statistics indicating a 20 percent increase in murders for the first eight months of the year compared with the similar period last year. In particular, the data is showing that rural parishes have overtaken...
Tropical Storm Erika has left a trail of death and destruction in Dominica. Works and Communications Minister Ian Pinnar has said 14 bodies have been recovered so far and at least 25 other persons are missing. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has...
Justice Minister, Senator Mark Golding, says former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has misunderstood the proposal for a review board for INDECOM. In a letter to the editor published in The Gleaner today, Former Prime Minister Golding said he is very...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is disputing that there is a correlation between the Jamaica’s program with the Fund and increase in poverty rates in the country. The issue was put to Director of the IMF’s Communications...
The Supreme Court has granted the Government a 28 day injunction barring members of the police force from continuing their protest action. About one thousand restive rank and file members of the JCF called in sick yesterday as they pressed their...
The National Security Minister Peter Bunting this afternoon revealed that the Finance Ministry has written to the Jamaica Police Federation inviting the union to return to bargaining table, amid a major all-island protest. Rank and file cops...
National Security Minister, Peter Bunting says girls growing up without a father are nine times more likely to be sexually abused than those with a father in the home. Bunting gave the statistics this morning as he commented on the impact of...
The government has put the preliminary estimate of the cost to host United States president Barack Obama in April at more than $270 million. Minister with responsibility for information, Sandrea Falconer, gave the breakdown at this morning’s...
United States President Barack Obama has said it is sometimes necessary for countries to shame other nations into changing some of their cultural practices which may be wrong. He was addressing a question from a representative from the Global Fund...
Almost two years after giving up on liquefied natural gas (LNG), the Government's dream of bringing the fuel to Jamaica has been reignited."This has been an area that has eluded us for many years," Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell stated at the...
United States President Barack Obama has declared that legalising ganja is not a "silver bullet" for solving problems associated with the drug. Responding to a question at a town hall meeting at the University of the West Indies this...
Jamaica could finally get the long-touted liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off the ground with the signing of an energy cooperation agreement with the United States Government. The Statement of Intent was signed between the US Department of...
