admin
-
Jamaica Tourist Visitors Hit New Record
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – Visitor arrivals by air and sea hit a record 3.3 million in 2012, up 7.4 per cent year-on-year, according to newly released tourism data. Arrivals in 2011 amounted to 3.07 million. Tourist visits also hit the three million mark in 2006. The bulk of last year's increase came from cruise passenger growth, up 17 per cent,…
Read More » -
Opposition chides IMF
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer – THE Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has chided the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for supporting what it described as the Government's 'scandalous raid' on the National Housing Trust (NHT) for $11 billion annually to fund the country's debt, as one of several new revenue measures announced in Parliament earlier this week. In the meantime, the Opposition…
Read More » -
Westerners Support Debt-Reduction Plan – Business Leaders Say Gov’t Had No Choice
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – STAKEHOLDERS IN western Jamaica say Government must now provide the nation with a comprehensive growth package to complement the measures announced by Prime Minister Portia Simpson and her finance minister, Dr Peter Phillips, earlier this week. In a broadcast to the nation, the prime minister and Phillips called for the financial sector and the entire country…
Read More » -
‘Let’s Be Realistic’ – Phillips Pleads With Jamaicans To Understand Nation’s Economic Dilemma
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – AMID THE hue and cry from sections of the society in response to a $16-billion tax package passed by Parliament this week, Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips has urged Jamaicans to be guided by the country's economic reality as well as the global financial climate. “I think it important and I plead for the country and…
Read More » -
US$170m medical tourism facility for Jamaica
(Jamaica Gleaner) Investment promotions agency, JAMPRO, has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with American Global MD (AGMD) for the country’s first ‘five-star’ medical tourism facility valued at US$170 million. John Marcocchio, the local project manager and director of Implementation Limited, said Thursday that the project is likely to break ground in 12 to 18 months after design…
Read More » -
In pursuit of intellectual respectability
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News – An excessive deference to figures in authority and an unhealthy obsession with titles, especially academic ones, are traits not necessarily confined to the Caribbean. German education minister Annette Schavan resigned last week, after Düsseldorf’s Heinrich Heine University found her guilty of plagiarism and stripped her of her doctorate. Ms Schavan maintains that she did no…
Read More »