Novelette Grant ST JAMES, Jamaica (JIS) — Acting Commissioner of Police (ACP), Novelette Grant, is calling on parents to be more attentive to what their children do outside the home. Grant, who was speaking at a community forum on violence at Sandals Royal in Montego Bay on March 22,
Ricardo Nuncio, managing director, Red Stripe (second left), and presenters at the Project Grow Outgrower Programme briefing session — Dr Nickeisha Reid, (left) farm manager, and Dr Cavell Francis-Rhiney, LRM business development manager (second right) —engage in discussion with Ricardo Mallett, a farmer from Clarendon. Mallett was one of 50
Natsima Nutraceuticals team members Lancelot Riley (left), Fiona Bowley, Oshane Solomon, Shanea Wint, and Alston Miller after placing first in the National Business Model Competition last Friday. Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has been crowned winner of the National Business Model Competition (NBMC) and will represent Jamaica at the upcoming International
Director of Non-Communicable Disease and Injuries Prevention in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Tamu Davidson-Sadler The economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Jamaica, including mental-health conditions, will lead to a lost output of US$17.2 billion over the next 15 years. This is according to a 2011 study by founder
Implementation Minister Emmalin Pierre (Photo: CMC) ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC) — The Grenada government says it will introduce a National Health Insurance by the end of June. Implementation Minister Emmalin Pierre, addressing the convention of the ruling New National Party (NNP) on Sunday night, said that the programme will
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation and MP for St James North Western, Dr Horace Chang (left) shares in a light moment with Mayor of Montego Bay, Homer Davis at a recent Business Process Outsourcing meeting in Montego Bay. ST JAMES, Jamaica (JIS) — The Business Process
The Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) says it still views the imposition of general consumption tax (GCT) on group health insurance as a retrograde step despite Finance Minister Audley Shaw indicating that entities which pay the tax will be allowed to treat it as a deductible on their income
Shaw: if employees were to pay the GCT on group health insurance, the additional cost would be minimal. The Finance Minister says companies that pay the new General Consumption Tax on group health insurance on behalf of their workers will be able to deduct it from their income tax
A training workshop by Sandals to reach motorcycle riders and passengers has been held in Negril — one of the most motorcycle-populated areas in the island. Whatever else might be occurring in other parishes, you have to work hard to equal Westmoreland in bike numbers. Major and minor roads
Report of the Economic Growth Council The tourism sector has long been a key pillar of the Jamaican economy. This sector, which generated over $32 billion towards the gross domestic product for the first three quarters of 2016, continues to expand and achieve major success. Tourism has always been one
