Jamaica
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Support for the fight against human trafficking
KINGSTON, Jamaica – JAMAICA'S law-enforcement agencies should feel a sense of achievement with news of the country's removal from the United States' State Department trafficking in persons Tier 2 watch list. National Security Minister Peter Bunting shared the news with the nation during his contribution to the Sectoral Debate in Parliament last Wednesday. According to Minister Bunting, the Trafficking in…
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First Lady of Burkina Faso to visit Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The First Lady of Burkina Faso, Chantal Compaoré is scheduled to arrive here on Monday as part of a delegation from the West African country. The purpose of the mission is to learn about Jamaica’s experience in preventing adolescent pregnancies and supporting adolescent mothers. Compaoré will be accompanied by officials from the Ministry of Women Promotion…
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Christians protest Court challenge to buggery law
KINGSTON, Jamaica – HUNDREDS of Christians staged two mass meetings at opposite ends of the island yesterday in protest against a challenge to the buggery law scheduled to be heard in the Supreme Court tomorrow. The protest in Kingston, the capital city, was held at National Heroes Park, while in Montego Bay, on the island’s north coast, the demonstrators gathered…
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Jamaica triples earnings from creative industry
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Government marketing agency, Jamaica Promotions (Jampro) is aiming to attract overseas jobs for Jamaican animators within the context of the country tripling its year-on-year earnings from creative-industry projects beyond J$1.1 billion. The agency will leverage the talent, language, and geographic proximity to main markets, in a bid to earn foreign exchange. However, award-winning local animator, Kevin Jackson,…
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Ja, US team up on climate change, environmental best practices
KINGSTON, Jamaica – JAMAICA and the United States last Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will see greater co-operation between both countries on matters related to climate change and environmental best practices. The agreement will see the ministries of water, land, environment and climate change and science, technology, energy and mining collaborating with the United States Agency for…
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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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