Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Donovan Stanberry (centre), engages in light conversation with (from left): Vice President for Export and Market Development at JAMPRO, Robert Scott; head of Farm Up Jamaica, Neil Curtis; Dr Julius Garvey, son of Marcus Garvey, Jamaica's first National
Economic Growth Council Chairman (ECG) Michael Lee-Chin greets junior finance minister Fayval Williams while Galina Sotirova, World Bank country manager for Jamaica, looks on after the EGC presented its third report to the nation at Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston last night. (Photo: Garfield Robinson) The Economic Growth Council
Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton's admission of the inadequacies of Jamaica's public health system is beyond challenge. Indeed, that fact and many other sordid details of the problems afflicting public health have been exposed ad nauseam in both the print and electronic media for many years. Therefore, when Minister
The government's no-user-fee policy in health care has contributed US$26.6 million (in purchasing power parity terms) worth of net real production to the Jamaican economy while adding 2.15 additional weekly hours to the labour market, according to a recent publication by the International Development Bank (IDB). The publication, entitled
Recently, I had a conversation with a group of young adults about the importance of preparing for retirement. Some were of the view that they had all the time in the world to prepare for their retirement years and that saving for a pension was not something that they should
he first and most important function of a g overnment is to maintain law and order, which is absolutely critical to the achievement of a safe environment for people to work, live, raise families and do business. That is the laudable goal of Vision 2030, the much-touted National Development
Dr Lawrence Williams displays two of his Guinea Hen Weed pharmaceutical products retailed under the Timeless Herbal Care brand – the Guinea Hen Weed Tonic and Restorative and the Guinea Hen Weed Magic Relief pain ointment — at a briefing session at UTech, Jamaica's Papine campus earlier this year.
A new survey commissioned by the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) found that millennial consumer behaviours have been shaped by the widespread adoption of smart phones and the Internet. The survey, titled the Mobile Consumer Survey for Jamaica and conducted via SMS and mobile web, received more than
Gov't says $338 million in claims collected from companies last year BY ALPHEA SAUNDERS Senior staff reporter saundersa@jamaicaobserver.com It costs the Kingston Public Hospital (pictured here) $400,000 per day to treat trauma victims (Photo: Observer file) THE Government during the last fiscal year collected $338 million in claims from
Bennett-Templer Already struggling and under-resourced, public hospitals are losing an estimated $300 million to insurance companies from individuals with health coverage who are preying on public hospitals where services are 'free'. Under the no-user-fee policy, hospitals are entitled to receive fees from insurance companies where a policy holder uses
