Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Jennifer Griffith, says the uptake of the Tourism Worker’s Pension Fund, has been slow in coming. She was speaking with Nationwide News during JAPEX2026 on Tuesday. The Tourism Workers Pension Fund was launched in 2022, with an enrolment of just under eleven thousand workers to date. Tourism Minister […]

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Jamaica Product Exchange, JAPEX, opened at the Moon Palace Resort, Ocho Rios,  St. Ann, on September 14. (Garwin Davis/JIS) Jamaica intends to add some 20,000 additional hotel rooms over the next five to 10 years. Deputy Director of Tourism for the Jamaica Tourist Board, Phillip Rose, says that’s a US$5 billion investment. Rose was speaking Monday at […]

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The Financial Services Commission, FSC, is to take on a new role – policing fraud in the business process outsourcing, BPO industry. It follows a decision by the National Security Council to declare lottery scamming a major national security threat. Mahiri Stewart tells us more. The decision was taken at the National Security Council, NSC’s […]

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Demand for Jamaica’s tourism product is far outstripping supply. That’s according to Deputy Director of Tourism for the Jamaica Tourist Board, Phillip Rose, who says this has contributed in part to increased airfares. Rose was speaking at the opening forum for JAPEX 2026 at the Moon Palace in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, on Monday. By […]

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The Atlantic has now gone longer without a hurricane than in any season since satellites began tracking storms. Friday, September 11, matches the latest date on record for a first Atlantic hurricane. Shaloy Smikle tells us more. The current record for the latest forming first hurricane of the season is held by Gustav in 2002 […]

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The Chairman of the Jamaica Reconstruction and Resilience Oversight Committee, JAMRROC, believes modelling the body on the Economic Programme Oversight Committee, EPOC, was a smart move. Professor Peter Blair Henry was speaking on Cliff Hughes Online with George Davis on Friday. He was reacting to sentiment shared by the Opposition that the committee is an […]

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Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness is criticising insurance companies, accusing them of hampering the recovery of those private sector firms impacted by Hurricane Melissa. Dr. Holness says insurance companies are taking forever to settle claims. A survey of businesses in Black River, St Elizabeth, earlier this year found that just 1.4 per cent of them […]

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Prominent attorney and government lawmaker, Senator Christian Tavares-Finson, is welcoming an announcement that Commonwealth citizens, required to travel to London to attend proceedings of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, JCPC, can now access a free, streamlined visa application process. The initiative, developed by the JCPC in collaboration with the UK Home Office and […]

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The push for the full removal of the visa requirement is not over! That’s the word of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, even as she welcomes the waiver of th visa application fees for Jamaicans whose cases reach the UK Privy Council. Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, Foreign Affairs and Foreign […]

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The Opposition is again urging the Government to temporarily move students out of severely damaged schools in western Jamaica and place them with host families and schools in less-affected parishes. Spokesperson on Education, Damion Crawford, says the PNP’s Solidarity Student Exchange Programme, first advanced as a contingency plan, was never seriously considered by the Ministry […]

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