Unemployment in Jamaica at Record Low

May 04, 2018 in Regional

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says Jamaica’s unemployment rate declined to a record low 9.6 per cent as at the end of January. That is down from the 10.4 per cent out-turn for the last quarter of 2017, and dips below the 9.8 per cent recorded in...

School laptops back in September…at $50m

May 02, 2018 in Regional

After continuous criticism from the Opposition over its scrapping of the secondary schools laptop programme, the Ministry of Education has announced the return of the programme which will see laptops provided to schools from the start of the new school year in September. But the programme...