KINGSTON, Jamaica - It is not only the election of Doran Dixon to a second stint as president of the teachers' union. Other evidence abounds of how we have this education thing upside down; that there is a premium on form over outcomes. This past Sunday, for instance, this newspaper highlighted...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The state of the economy will be the focal point of a meeting of trade union officials who have raised concern about how Government paid employees are coping. With a public sector wage freeze in place, the devaluation of the Jamaican dollar and the recent increase in toll ra...

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- A Bill to amend the Caribbean Community (Free Movement of Skilled Persons) Act, to broaden the categories of skilled nationals able to access jobs in regional countries has been tabled in the House of Representatives, by Minister of Labour and Social Security, Derrick Kellier. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has urged the Portia Simpson Miller led administration to devise a plan for shocks that could jeoparise the deal currently in place with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). During Friday’s sitting of the Upper House, Opposi...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – Rainford Angella Rainford, managing director of UK-based Rekamniar Frontier Ventures, is confident that Jamaica's move to diversify the energy sector will result in an almost immediate reduction in the country's oil bill. Jamaica's oil imports amounted...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Jamaica will partner with Cuba to facilitate the local manufacture and assembly of cost effective solar light panels. This undertaking forms part of the administration’s move towards incorporating renewable alternatives into the local energy mix in order to reduce the ...

(Jamaica Gleaner) Commissioner of Customs Major (retd) Richard Reese has expressed satisfaction with the combined efforts of the various law-enforcement agencies in patrolling the nation’s ports. Reese lauded the Jamaica Customs’ Contraband Enforcement Team (CET), Transnational Crime an...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - Despite a 3.1 per cent decrease in visitor arrivals this past winter, Jamaica is already reporting a rebound of nine per cent in one of its most important source markets - Canada. This has been bolstered by an unprecedented growth of 10 per cent in the United Kingdom (U...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Tourism Minister Dr. Wykeham McNeill says funds are place to implement the transformational development projects slated for the resort towns of Ocho Rios, Montego Bay and Negril, as well as Port Royal in Kingston. At Wednesday's weekly Jamaica House press briefing, McNe...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - IT is hardly necessary to say it, but for emphasis, the economic recovery of the Caribbean Community must be a priority among the myriad problems and issues on the agenda of the Caricom Heads of Government meeting taking place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The...