KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Government is taking steps to amend the Minimum Wage Act to provide greater protection for workers. The existing law, passed in 1938, provides for the payment of wages above or equal to, but not below a statutory level for certain types of work. It also establishes
Sagicor Bank CEO Chorvelle Johnson presents certificates for scholarship grants valued at $100,000 each to top girl Zarah Grey and top boy Kukoyi Irving at the Child Protection and Family Services Agency’s seventh Educational Achievement Awards ceremony on November 29. The ceremony, held at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel, awarded
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr Nigel Clarke announced today that a senior technical team from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Institute of Capacity Development (ICD) will lead a training workshop on strengthening macroeconomic framework skills at the ministry. The workshop is slated to run
Minister of Health, Dr Christopher Tufton, interacts with a patient at the launch of the Public-Private Sector Pharmacy Partner Programme at the Camdex Pharmacy in Green Island, Hanover, recently. Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton is hailing the success of the Public-Private Sector Pharmacy Partner Programme, under which nearly 100,000
Jamaica's rank has fallen consecutively over the past years, from 65th in 2016 to 67th in 2017, to 70th in 2018, and now to 75th in the 2019 Doing Business Report. The rank has fallen despite Jamaica's index value increasing by 20 basis points, from 67.27 in 2018 to 67.47.
A shift in the global financial markets has prompted calls from investment advisory firm, Sterling Asset Management Ltd, for investors to look to the global market for more USD fixed income investment opportunities in 2019. President and CEO of Sterling Asset Management Charles Ross, on Friday revealed data which showed
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Health Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton, says five hospitals have been shortlisted for upgrading over the next three to five years with loan funding of US$50 million from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). These institutions are the Kingston Public, Spanish Town, May Pen, Mandeville and St Ann's Bay
Nurse Crystal Gayle conducts pressure and blood sugar tests on Margerett Grove. Observing are, from left: Orville Johnson, executive director, Insurance Association of Jamaica; Joan Walker Nicholson, director of Nursing Service at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), and Dr. Natalie Whylie, senior medical officer at KPH. They were at
Nurse Crystal Gayle conducts pressure and blood sugar tests on Margerett Grove. Observing are, from left: Orville Johnson, executive director, Insurance Association of Jamaica; Joan Walker Nicholson, director of Nursing Service at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), and Dr Natalie Whylie, senior medical officer at KPH. They were at
The Road Safety Unit in the Ministry of Transport of Mining is projecting that there could be at least 358 road fatalities by the end of the year. The unit revealed that at the end of November, fatalities had surpassed 322, the total number of people killed last year. "Some
