Jamaica

  • June 24, 2013
    933

    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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  • June 21, 2013
    885

    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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  • June 21, 2013
    866

    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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  • June 21, 2013
    844

    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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  • June 21, 2013
    901

    ‘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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  • June 21, 2013
    880

    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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  • June 20, 2013
    848

    EDITORIAL – Tax havens in retreat

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – A development that could affect the economics of some of Jamaica's more prosperous Caribbean neighbours and, perhaps, the pocketbooks of some of our better-heeled citizens, passed largely unnoticed here last week. Ten of Britain's overseas territories and colonies, acquiescing to the prompting of the UK Prime Minister David Cameron, signed an agreement to share financial information with…

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  • June 20, 2013
    847

    High-level talks on future of CAL

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica has given the new board of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines (CAL) a month to indicate how it intends to use the Air Jamaica brand in the future. Transport Minister Dr. Omar Davies, Tuesday, met with a high- level delegation from Trinidad and Tobago that included Trade Minister Vasant Bharath and CAL board members, to discuss the…

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  • June 19, 2013
    892

    Government seeking to further reduce crime

    MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government is implementing measures to further reduce crime in the country and is focusing on at-risk youth, according to National Security Minister Peter Bunting. He told the 5th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference that ends here on Wednesday that while the country has made significant progress in dealing with the crime situation, including a…

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  • June 19, 2013
    851

    PM wants nationals abroad to invest in Jamaica

    MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, CMC – Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is calling on members of the Jamaican Diaspora to invest in the country saying also that foreign investors have shown their confidence by investing in mega projects here. “Along with our Diaspora, we need our international partners, and we will continue to invite foreign investments. Belgian-registered companies have invested in…

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