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.
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 these disparate current and former colonies, through an evolutionary process demanding nothing less than the absolute best of our collective Caribbean genius.
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 other jurisdictions.
Of the group, two, the Cayman Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, are Jamaica's near neighbours in the northern Caribbean.
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 airline's Jamaican operations and its arrears to local entities including the Customs Department and the Airports Authority of Jamaica.
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 40 per cent reduction in homicides over the last three years, the Portia Simpson Miller government is determined to employ measures for further reductions.
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.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Myrtle Halsall, senior deputy governor of the Bank of Jamaica, is suggesting that, as a countermove, Jamaica could initiate steps to get financial information on nationals living in the United States (US) in much the same way the US authorities are seeking to do with its Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
KINGSTON, Jamaica - During an enlightening presentation to internal auditors at a recent meeting of the Institute of Internal Auditors (Jamaica chapter) by Mr George Roper, Scotiabank's, vice-president for compliance, the cold, hard facts of FATCA were expounded.
FATCA is the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, a new United States (US) law aimed at foreign financial institutions (FFIs) and other financial intermediaries to prevent tax evasion by US citizens and residents through use of offshore accounts.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - BUSINESSMAN AND publisher Ian Randle is to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies (UWI). He is to be conferred at the annual graduation exercise on the St Augustine campus of the university in Trinidad and Tobago in October of this year.
A pioneer in the field of Caribbean publishing, Randle founded the first commercial scholarly publishing company in the Anglophone Caribbean, Ian Randle Publishers Limited (IRP).
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - VARIOUS MEMBER STATES of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) face social, economic and political challenges at this time. It could, however, be quite disturbing to learn that Jamaica is not alone in having the very serious problem of thousands of its children living without birth certificates and consequently being kept out of the school.
About a quarter million such children in this predicament are in a population of approximately 2.8 million, according to a child protection specialist with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Janet Cupidon Quallo.