With the Jamaica Product Exchange (JAPEX) set to get under way today at the Montego Bay Convention Centre (MBCC), participants can look forward to seminars geared toward boosting their businesses. JAPEX, the largest travel and tourism trade show in Jamaica organised by the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association and the Jamaica Tourist Board, provides a [...]
LONDON, United Kingdom (CMC) — Commonwealth Secretary General, Baroness Patricia Scotland, on Monday urged the international community to re-double its efforts to fully understand the impact of climate change given the effects of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on the Caribbean in recent weeks. Scotland described Hurricane Maria that slammed into Dominica last Monday killing an [...]
MOTORISTS can now pay their motor vehicle fitness fees online. The Ministry of Transport and Mining announced in a release yesterday that the Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) and Island Traffic Authority (ITA) have teamed up to provide motorists with this “easier way” of paying their fees. “These fees can now be paid online at www.jamaicatax.gov.jm [...]
Jamaica Bankers Association President Nigel Holness speaking at CIBC First Caribbean International Bank's Client Appreciation Reception at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston last Thursday. The Jamaica Bankers Association (JBA) has recommended that the Government consider lower Jamaican dollar reserve requirements to facilitate further decreases in interest rates. According to JBA president Nigel Holness, [...]
From left, Martin Miller managing director, National Housing Trust (NHT); Dr Horace Chang, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation; Prime Minister Andrew Holness; Chairman of the NHT Dr Nigel Clarke and member of parliament, St Andrew South East, Julian Robinson, at the NHT groundbreaking ceremony for Ruthven Towers on [...]
Allison Peart, managing partner of Ernst & Young, is now president of the American Chamber of Commerce of Jamaica. She was elected at the organisation's annual general meeting on Tuesday. Peart has more than 20 years of experience serving a wide cross section of clients in public accounting. She has also worked in the [...]
PRIME Minister Andrew Holness said yesterday that a performance-based public sector is necessary to produce the efficiency required for increased economic growth and a sustainable economy. Speaking to the media at his quarterly press briefing at Jamaica House, Holness said that he was not satisfied with the current pace of public sector reform, noting that [...]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr Warren Smith, says one of the biggest threats to Caribbean policy reform is the “absence of political will and the lack of implementation capacity.” The CDB president was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Caribbean Leadership and Transformation Forum earlier this week. [...]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years destroyed hundreds of homes, knocked out power across the entire island, and turned some streets into raging rivers yesterday in an onslaught that could plunge the US territory deeper into financial crisis. Leaving at least nine people [...]
An aerial photography taken and released by the Dutch department of Defense on September 6, 2017 shows the damage of Hurricane Irma, on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. (Photo: AFP) I'm certain that we will hear it ad nauseam that Harvey and Irma, the two recent destructive hurricanes in the United States and [...]
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