Jamaica
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Air traffic controllers ordered back on the job
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Air Traffic Controllers who took industrial action on Saturday, were ordered to return to work following the granting of a court injunction obtained by the Ministry of Labour on Sunday afternoon. The over forty air traffic controllers at the two international airports, the Norman Manley International in Kingston and the Sangster International in the western city…
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Has the ACP a future?
KINGSTON. Jamaica – In 2020 the Cotonou Convention will expire. Then the trade, aid and development mechanism that links 79 nations in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (the ACP) to Europe may well come to an end without any successor agreement being put in pace. How this has come about says as much about the way in which the…
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Rethinking taxing tourism
KINGSTON. Jamaica – ARE governments in the Caribbean killing the goose that lays the golden egg? This question relates to the number of taxes that governments are applying to the tourism industry and, particularly, to the cost of aeroplane tickets for flights originating in their countries. In some cases, the cost of government taxes far exceeds the actual fare charged…
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CARICOM complainants don’t need new bureaucracy
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Christopher Tufton, the shadow foreign affairs and foreign trade minister, doesn't seem to get it. So, he is shopping around for more bureaucracy – a mechanism, he says, for public-private sector consultation on trade disputes with Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica's Caribbean Community (CARICOM) partners, with whom we have a trade deficit of nearly US$1 billion. Jamaica's private…
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Let’s decide, do we leave or go forward with CARICOM?
KINGSTON. Jamaica – This Tuesday, Jamaica gets what we believe may be a last chance to make up our minds whether we cut the umbilical cord between us and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and strike out alone on an uncertain future outside of the regional bloc. Foreign Minister Arnold J Nicholson, very correctly in our view, has invited some of…
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Jamaica to establish national museum
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government has announced plans for the establishment of a National Museum of the Jamaican People. Youth and Culture Minister Lisa Hanna said the museum will be created as part of the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ). “It will be a space where our children will be able to learn the glorious history of this nation…
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Jamaica backs FAO call for a hunger-free world
KINGSTON, Jamaica- JAMAICA has supported a call, led by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), for the eradication of hunger and malnourishment in the world. Speaking at the 38th Session of the FAO's Conference at its headquarters in Rome, Italy on Tuesday, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Roger Clarke said “Jamaica underscores our commitment to totally eradicating hunger…
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Jamaica removed from United States Trafficking in Persons watch list
KINGSTON, Jamaica – JAMAICA has been removed from the United States' State Department Trafficking in Persons Tier Two watch list, National Security Minister Peter Bunting has said. The country was last year downgraded from a Tier Two to the Tier Two watch list by the State Department's 2012 report on Trafficking in Persons in its ranking of the measures being…
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‘Govts committed to CAL/Air Jamaica union’
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The government of Trinidad and Tobago and the government of Jamaica are committed to making the Caribbean Airlines/Air Jamaica arrangement work. Therefore, both countries have set up committees to look at some of the problems affecting the CAL/Air Jamaica arrangement, Minister in the Ministry of Finance Vasant Bharath said yesterday. “The teams would look at…
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CARICOM crabs in a barrel
KINGSTON, Jamaica – WE have never for one moment deluded ourselves into believing that the signing of the 1973 Treaty of Chaguaramas — that governs Caribbean Community (CARICOM) relations — would have ushered us overnight to the Promised Land of regional integration. In fact, we knew clearly that we would only achieve the ideal of a single economic space, binding…
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