The Portia Simpson-Miller administration says it will continue with the Liquefied National Gas (LNG) project started under the previous administration. Under the project, LNG will be...
(Jamaica Observer) – Jamaica’s Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Phillip Paulwell, after spending the last three weeks in dialogue with the country’s two major...
Jamaica has the Caribbean’s highest murder rate, although the 1,124 murders reported in 2011 were a seven-year low for the country, according to the Caribbean Human...
Prior to 2011 foreclosures were a rarity in Jamaica according to the National Land Agency (NLA) but now the island has seen the rate shoot up...
(Jamaica Gleaner) Digicel Limited plans to raise J$ 21 billion (US$250 million) from a private placement of an eight-year bond. The proceeds will fund potential acquisitions,...
Roughly 2,000 firearms were melted down in a blazing furnace Tuesday as part of an effort designed to combat gun trafficking while reducing violent crime. Police,...
(The Gleaner) – International ratings agency Fitch has maintained Jamaica’s B- grade on its likelihood to honor local and foreign debts. However, Fitch is raising grave...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller has indicated that the country will will be moving to sign on to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in its...
Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File The Simpson-Miller administration is expected to provide specifics, at the end of a two-day Cabinet retreat which begins today at...
Audrey Marks., Jamaica’s outgoing Ambassador to the United States. PHOTO/JIS Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States Audrey Marks, yesterday confirmed that she has resigned, a move...
“Jamaica is not just viable, but it is an extremely attractive place for domestic companies to thrive and international companies to invest,” said Linehan at the...
Jamaica’s month-old government on Wednesday launched the first phase of an emergency jobs program that was the centerpiece of its winning election campaign. The government formed...
After numerous visits and meetings with administrators and regulators this past year, Solamon Energy Corporation today proudly announced its program to build the largest solar power...
Jamaica and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expect to begin negotiations in the coming weeks on a new deal as grim economic forecasts pose significant dangers...
The Simpson-Miller administration will on Wednesday begin rolling out the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP) in seven parishes. The Prime Minister announced Sunday that 700 people...
After raising mountain of complaints about the ill effects of the no-user-fee policy that was implemented by the former Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) government, the new...
Jamaica’s new government is restarting talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A statement from the finance ministry said an IMF delegation will visit Jamaica starting...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File Nineteen (19) members of parliament have been sworn into the Portia Simpson-Miller led cabinet at King’s House today. Ms. Simpson-Miller...
Jamaica’s newly sworn in prime minister, Portia Simpson-Miller has pledged to ditch the Queen as her country’s official Head of State. Portia Simpson-Miller said she would...
Jamaica’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a lawsuit with the High Court seeking to derail the planned merger of wireless operators Claro Jamaica, a subsidiary...
Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Jamaica’s ruling party appeared headed for defeat in national elections on Thursday, as the Caribbean country’s leading opposition party capitalized on...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Andrew Holness (NationNews Barbados) – More amd more Jamaicans are starting to believe that the Andrew Holness administration is steering the Jamaican economy...
It appears the shine has started to rub off Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) Leader Prime Minister Andrew Holness, with most of his numbers trending down. For...
Jamaican National Womens Under-17 Squad. Host nation Jamaica last night cleared another hurdle to qualify for the Under-17 Women’s World Cup in Azerbaijan by booking a...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Andrew Holness Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday told Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) members in Alligator Pond in Manchester that the country will...
Jamaica is seeking to narrow her trade deficit with Japan while exporting more goods and services to the Asian marketplace. Jamaica’s trade deficit with Japan currently...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Andrew Holness In the battle-scarred slum of Tivoli Gardens, Latoya Brown lavishes thanks on two powerful men who have taken care of her:...
Paul Martin being led away after his court appearance in Trelawny Jamaica. PHOTO/Jamaica Observer Paul Martin, the Canadian school teacher accused of slashing his wife’s throat...
Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness (pictured), has urged members of the Jamaican diaspora to invest in more tangible and long term ways in their homeland rather...
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness (pictured), hinted Sunday that parliamentary elections could come as early as next month, whipping tens of thousands of governing party supporters...
(Jamaica Observer) – Four Members of Parliament (MPs), two each from the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) and the governing Jamaica Labor Party (JLP), were yesterday...
(Jamaica Gleaner) The People’s National Party (PNP) has responded to reports that there is doubt over the staging of the political debates ahead of the next...
Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness (pictured), has revealed that said part of the transformation of the economy has to be done through transforming the education system....
Brian Wynter: Governor of the Bank of Jamaica. PHOTO/The Gleaner The ongoing speculation about the date of the next general election could add to the uncertainties...
The latest RJR/TVJ Boxill poll has revealed that the ruling Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) and the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) are almost tied in a...
(Jamaica Observer) – The Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) has reported that Jamaica’s Net International Reserves (NIR) is in excess of US$2 billion as at the end...
With the likelihood a general election being held in the near future, Prime Minister Andrew Holness (pictured), – who is also the political head of the...
(Jamaica Gleaner) Four years after the dual-citizenship drama threatened to collapse the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) government, former Director of Elections Danville Walker says he wants...
Usain Bolt of Jamaica (R) takes the baton from teammate Yohan Blake. PHOTO: REUTERS/Mark Blinch Usain Bolt, the double World Record holder and International Association of...
The Bermuda Supreme Court, late last week, ordered Jamaica based telecommunications company, Digicel to cease providing Bermudeans access to its internet-based long-distance service. This is as...
The Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) has reported an increase of cash remittances sent to Jamaica by Jamaicans abroad of 7.3 percent. Net remittances went up from...
Haitian based Gilbert Bigio (GB) Group, has finalized a deal to acquire the fuels marketing and aviation businesses of Chevron in Jamaica, which trades under its...
The Jamaica Manufacturer’s Association (JMA) and the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) are in the process of setting up discussions regarding the viability of the PNP’s...
Mavis Bank Coffee Factory Mavis Bank Coffee Factory Limited., has been acquired by the Pan Jamaican Investment Trust (PanJam) and the Jamaica Producers Group. The acquisition...
Jamaica’s new prime minister appointed his government on Tuesday, leaving nearly all ministries unchanged while making relatively minor shifts that he said would accelerate administrative and...
Andrew Holness (pictured), has been sworn in as Jamaica’s ninth prime minister. The 39-year-old Holness has taken the oath of allegiance to his country before about...
The spotlight will today be focused on the lawns of King's House, the governor general's official residence and the scenic setting where Andrew Holness is set...
The outgoing Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding (pictured), will address the nation tonight at 8.00pm local time on both radio and television stations. It is...
The Jamaican Prime Minister designate Andrew Holness (pictured), has pledged to reduce on the red-tape impeding the development and growth of business, while simultaneously addressing the...
Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding (pictured), is expected to formally tender his resignation to the Governor General on Sunday and a new prime minister sworn in....
Andrew Holness (pictured), is the presumed next prime minister of Jamaica. He will have to seek his own mandate if he is to have the moral...
It has been confirmed that Prime Minister Bruce Golding will be leaving office before the originally announced November date. Andrew Holness (pictured), will be sworn in...
The Wigton Windfarm Ltd. (Wigton) will transform its resource center into a high-tech training facility for renewable energy, with the aim of developing local capacity and...
The Jamaica Labor Party‘s (JLP) powerful Area Council has endorsed Andrew Holness (pictured), for the postion of party leader and prime minister of Jamaica. Holness accepted...
Political analysts in Jamaica, are suggesting that there could be an early general election, – possibly before the 2012 London Olympics and next year’s observation of...
Jamaican athlete, Asafa Powell (pictured above), will be the 2011 recipient of the University of Technology (UTech) Chancellor’s Medal. Powell, has registered 74 times under 10...
A 2010 United Nations report cited Jamaica as having had the highest homicide rate in the English-speaking Caribbean, however the country has reported a 40 percent...
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett revealed Wednesday that Jamaica is expecting 1.2 million visitors from North America alone this winter season. Bartlett made this disclosure as he...
Outgoing Prime Minister Bruce Golding is seeking to allay fears that the pending change in the leadership of the Government could lead to chaos.At least six...
The Information Minister said transition is among issues to be outlined.
The Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) general secretary, Aundre Franklyn, said measures are in place to prevent the leadership race from becoming bitter. He said assurances have...
Renowned businessman, investor and philanthropist Michael Lee-Chin (pictured), has been appointed chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University. The appointment has been unanimously approved by Laurier’s Board of...
Jamaica’s Finance Minister Audley Shaw said Greece should follow the example of the Caribbean nation and restructure the national debt as a first step toward solving...
Barbados based budget carrier, REDjet are on track to start a Jamaican Airline. This was revealed by the Chief Executive Officer, Ian Burns who indicated that...
Jamaica’s departing prime minister met privately with his Cabinet colleagues Monday as the Caribbean country’s governing party looked for a new chief to lead them into...
Jamaica’s governing party announced Sunday that Prime Minister Bruce Golding (pictured), will step down as leader in the coming weeks, possibly averting a rebellion from ruling...
A long list of thorny issues, including the ratification of several candidates and the image of Jamaica Labour Party leader Bruce Golding, are among the agenda...
The Governor cites internal security risks as the reason for his decision.
Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding (pictured), has criticized the Opposition’s job initiative, the Jamaica Emergency Employment Program (JEEP), which was outlined by Portia Simpson-Miller, the Leader...
CONTRIBUTIONS TO the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) more than doubled in the last financial year.The party's audited report for the year ending June 2011 indicated...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica's uptick in cruise-ship visitors has kept the country's tourist arrivals afloat, with a 13.6 per cent increase in the first eight months of...
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett (right) welcomes China Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu (left) to Jamaica on his arrival – Photo by Barrington Flemming China’s vice premier and...
Portia Simpson Miller. AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa People’s National Party (PNP), President, Portia Simpson Miller, today outlined several initiatives her party will undertake if it wins the...
British Airways will stop flying into Montego Bay (Sir Donald Sangster Airport). This change takes effect in 2012. The airline has been operating two weekly flights...
Tickets go on sale for flights starting in two months.
Jamaica will shoot for another sports title when three of the country’s top shooters participate in the 16th World Shoot competition in Rhodes, Greece, in early...
The outstanding issues that have stalled the country's loan arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be ironed out before the end of the year.This...
Low cost Barbados-based carrier REDjet, will unveil Jamaica flights along with other routes this week. Customers will soon be able to see new schedules online and...
IT APPEARS that all may not be well at the state-owned oil refinery. A notation in the revised public bodies budget recently presented to Parliament indicates...
Jamaica’s economic situation has not reached a crisis level that could jeorpardize the country’s Stand-by Agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Prime Minister Golding (pictured),...
Members of Citizens United to Reduce Electricity (CURE) along with attorney-at-law Hugh Wildman and Senator Dennis Meadows yesterday announced a three-pronged approach to break the monopoly...
The World Economic Forum is has flagged security, infrastructure, inefficient resource issues and innovation-lag as main hurdles to the region’s competitiveness.
The passage of the First Supplementary Estimates in Parliament will not guarantee a stamp of approval for the country’s economic programme by the International Monetary Fund...
WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICA LABOUR Party (JLP) Senator Dennis Meadows says serious thought must be given to the appointee who will head the Jamaica Public Service Company...
EDUCATION MINISTER Andrew Holness says the issue of failing schools cannot be ignored and has signalled that no effort will be spared to transform these institutions....
Ahead of the new school year, which begins tomorrow, the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is seeking the intervention of Prime Minister Bruce Golding to solve the...
New tourism products will be developed in the town over the next five years.
The good performance is good news since it signals high investor confidence.
After more than half a century, Jamaica's parliamentarians will deliberate the nation's business from a location other than George William Gordon House, where they have sat...
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) continues to come under fire for saddling the country with high electricity costs which are begining to cripple many businesses....
Jamaicans United for Sustainable Development takes note of the most recent statements on the economy made by Minister Christopher Tufton and Dr Gladstone Hutchinson of the...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Bruce Golding is to make a statement on the matter shortly.
The low-cost carrier gets a third aircraft after three months in the skies.
It’s the second quarter of positive economic growth for the Caribbean country.
On August 8 Jamaica made history by participating in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Amateur Radio in International Space Station (ARISS) programme.A total of...
Government has signed the divestment agreement with COMPLANT International Sugar Company, a wholly-owned company of the Chinese government.
PORTIA SIMPSON MILLER says the People's National Party (PNP) has resisted the temptation of offering election-oriented policies in a bid to return to state power.Speaking during...
Well-placed Government sources have indicated that some US$82 million dollars is to be cut from the national budget. The Cabinet yesterday held discussions on the Supplementary...
Usain Bolt is skipping the Weltklasse Diamond League meet in Zurich on Sept. 8, four days after the world championships finish in Daegu, South Korea. Weltklasse...
Government has decided to bring the CARICOM/Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement into full force.
The Jamaica government has set aside more money to expand and modernize the sugar industry.
The agreement was negotiated within the context of a previously approved Open Skies Policy.
Low cost intraregional carrier REDjet has started discussions with an airline in Central America and several regional governments to create a new air service link with...
Test batsman Kraigg Brathwaite (pictured), stroked a solid half-century to pilot Barbados to a nine-wicket win over Jamaica in the opening round of the West Indies...
Tens of thousands of teachers across the country will get smartphones to improve communication and technology awareness.
The country has to reduce expenditure in order to meet targets under its IMF loan arrangement.
Former 100m world record holder, Asafa Powell (pictured), will not run in today’s London AVIVA Grand Prix Diamond League meet as a precautionary measure, following complaints...
Government plans to double the number of jobs for Jamaicans in the information and communications technology sector.
Jamaica Ethanol Processing has shut down its ethanol plant and terminated 31 jobs after 26 years in the business. The move was completed last week after...
The court gives the nod for First Jamaica Investments Limited to merge with Pan Jamaican Investment Trust Limited.
The Finance Minister gives that assurance as two IMF reviews have been postponed pending the resolution of certain issues.
The Jamaican official says he wants to investigate whether it was a legitimate move by the government to scrap the industry altogether.
DESPITE SOME adverse findings, the commissions set up by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) to investigate and clear candidates for...
A UNIVERSITY of Technology lecturer has urged caution on any possible move to liberalise the distribution of energy. Darron Thomas, a specialist in competition in markets,...
THE JAMAICA Public Service Company (JPS) says it is moving with dispatch to regularise 106,000 households stealing electricity from its power lines. The utility company has...
MINISTER OF Youth, Sports and Culture Olivia Grange, has urged Jamaicans to use the period of Independence to renew their commitment to the country.Grange was speaking...
ACCUSING THE People's National Party (PNP) of carrying out a campaign to derail Chinese investments amounting to more than US$1 billion in Jamaica, the Bruce Golding-led...
The ban follows widespread metal theft over the past three years.
MEMBERS OF the public are being urged to advise the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) of any instance in which persons are detained by the police...
The Finance Minister says the offer was extended to the Asian country during a recent meeting with officials there.
Regional travellers will hear about new routes in a couple days.
DESPITE PROTESTING the doubling of the tourism enhancement-fee head tax, the parliamentary Opposition this week refused to vote against the measure in the House of Representatives.
BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann:"CRIME IS under control in Brown's Town these days.
Cabinet approves an agreement for testing and research of a new solar technology.
There will be no summer flights as regional travellers were hoping.
Proposals are now to be put to Cabinet on the way forward for the industry.
The leak at the site of an old gold mine in the south of the island has been contained and authorities say it poses no human...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding is urging Jamaicans to be patient even as they push for repairs to the infrastructure in their communities."I understand the anguish that...
A Parliamentary Committee has been set up to examine the proposals that are supposed to take effect next January.
Jamaican authorities will say within the next two weeks whether the takeover of Claro by Digicel will get the green light.
The Ministry of Health yesterday gave an assurance that the vaccination programme in public facilities was safe for young children, even as investigations continued into the...
The Barbados-based carrier has applied to Jamaica's Fair Trading Commission in another effort to get into that market.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday announced that the country's new attorney general, Ransford Braham, will take up office on August 8. Braham, who has long been...
He points to four non-Eastern Caribbean countries within CARICOM as being the ones who must provide focused leadership on integration.
Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Audrey Marks, has charged the membership of the American Chamber of Commerce of Jamaica (AmCham) to seize the window of...
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding has gained ground on Opposition leader Portia Simpson Miller in the latest check on the favourability and approval ratings of the leaders...
The two move to further integrate operations following last month’s signing of the agreement finalizing Caribbean Airlines’ acquisition of Air Jamaica.
Motorists will get an ease on their pockets when they visit fuel pumps this week. The Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica has announced that the prices of...
The new Chinese Ambassador to Jamaica is to assist in establishing the air link between the two countries.
The Jamaica Promotions Corporation aim is to engage key business interests and present the island as a viable investment destination.
MOST JAMAICANS seem to approve of the manner in which attorneys-at-law K.D. Knight and Patrick Atkinson treated Prime Minister Bruce Golding while he was on the...
