Leroy Reid, director of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) south-west region, has issued a call for a national ethics campaign against dishonest practices such as the illegal abstraction of electricity from the national grid.According to Reid, whose...
Attorneys representing residents of Industry Cove in Hanover will today present their arguments to Justice Judith Pusey as they seek leave for a judicial review of the construction of a sewage plant at a National Housing Trust (NHT) scheme being...
President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Howard Mitchell, says that the bureaucratic process at the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) is counter-productive and is calling for greater support from the Government...
Gateway Co-operative Credit Union (2017) Limited, which was formed from the merger of the Hanover and Montego co-operative credit unions less than two years ago, is reporting a surplus of $133 million for the 2017-2018 financial year.Speaking at the...
Leading operators in local outsourcing claim that the remuneration being offered to its Jamaican workers is comparable to or betters any of the other industries in Jamaica. However, they are concerned that the gains achieved over the past five years...
Stakeholders in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector are in agreement with businessman Richard Byles that more should be done to achieve greater economic growth, but has rubbished the notion that outsourcing only offers low paying jobs to...
Poor parenting must be blamed for the rapid decline in the value system of the society, which has seen youngsters between the ages of 15 and 24 years turning to a life of crime, noted Barbara Dandy, dean of discipline at the Godfrey Stewart High...
President of the Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica (BPIAJ), Gloria Henry says local players must adopt to the rapid changes on the global outsourcing landscape and move to include higher value added services to their offerings in...
Despite the restrictions imposed by the security forces during the state of public emergency, the Montego Bay chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) says the much anticipated annual fundraiser Food Fashion and Dance, (FFAD) will not be postponed....
Popular Jamaica Public Service (JPS) executive T'Shura Gibbs has tendered her resignation to take effect on February 9.Efforts to reach Gibbs, the director of JPS Region West, were unsuccessful.However, according to very reliable source, Gibbs will...
COMPLANT, the parent company of Pan Caribbean Sugar Company (PCSC), is now in the second phase of negotiations with another Chinese firm for the sale of Monymusk sugar factory in Clarendon.According to the Chinese sugar manufacturer's spokes-person...
