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Jamaica to host launch of UNDP Human Development Report

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica will be the venue for the launch of the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Human Development Report (HDR) on Tuesday, UN officials have said. Human Progress in a Diverse World', will be attended by officials from Brazil, India, the Caribbean and South Africa. The report explores evolving geopolitics, examines emerging issues and trends, and also identifies new stakeholders who have been influential in shaping the global development landscape.

CARICOM: Government’s lost opportunity

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Almost five years ago, in an article titled 'Jamaica's costly affair with CARICOM', I called attention to the gross economic abuse Jamaica suffers in its association with CARICOM and suggested that we should withdraw from our trading relationship with the group. My hope was that with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), a party that was at best lukewarm to CARICOM when in office, the Government would have at the very least looked into the matter to determine whether Jamaica's interests were being helped or harmed by the common market relationship.

EDITORIAL - CARICOM must fix China policy

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Should there have been need of further evidence that the Caribbean is important to China's global political and economic strategy, we need look no further than Trinidad & Tobago this weekend. Xi Jinping, China's new president, in one of only a handful of trips abroad since assuming the top job, is in Port-of-Spain for a summit with several regional leaders. It is President Xi's second visit to the region in four years. The previous one in 2009, when he was vice-president, also took him to Jamaica.

GraceKennedy eyes Haitian market

KINGSTON, Jamaica - GRACEKENNEDY has its sights set on entering the Haitian market, as the Jamaica-based conglomerate continues on its mission to grow its international footprint. "Haiti is on our radar. In fact I have gone into Haiti to look at opportunies," GK Foods CEO Michael Ranglin told shareholders on Wednesday at the company's annual general meeting in Kingston.

Guyana: Prospects for sustained development

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Describing for a friend my impressions of the Guyanese economy after a brief visit, I simply exclaimed: the economy is bubbling. The observant traveller needs no recourse to gross domestic product numbers, growth rates, bauxite, rice, rum production or foreign-exchange rates.

Jamaica creates FATCA intermediary

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica plans to set up a central authority led by the central bank to report on the financial activities of US taxpayers to their government, which has been on a three-year campaign to track down tax cheats.
Its the latest move by the Jamaican Government to assist local institutions to comply with a new US hegemonic tax act called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). It requires local financial institutions to disclose information to the US government or face a 30 per cent penalty on income.

Jamaica moving to improve technology sector

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government says it will soon implement a cyber emergency response team (CERT) to assist in the protection of the island’s internet infrastructure by coordinating defences against and responses to cyber attacks and threats.
Minister of State in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Julian Robinson, said that CERT should become operational by December and that the team will serve as a trusted national point of contact/clearinghouse for cyber threat identification, defence coordination and management.

The regional trade, political and economic quagmire

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The debilitating state of CARICOM affairs echoes the increasing level of despair by its citizens who helplessly witness the official bungling by regional governments, who appear impotent in search of a constructive and progressive plan for the redemption of CARICOM. Not since the publication of the West Indies Commission Time for Action has there been any worthy recommendation which can remedy the political and economic malaise that now prevails.

Caribbean leaders call for information-sharing on US deportees

CARIBBEAN Community leaders Tuesday, during a visit from US vice president Joe Biden, raised the matter of criminals in the US being sent back to their native lands in the region. Deportations have been a major issue on the Caribbean’s diplomatic agenda for years

The scourge of child malnutrition

KINGSTON, Jamaica - WORLDWIDE, hunger afflicts nearly a billion people, many of whom are children. Over extended periods, hunger causes malnutrition, which in turn makes the victims vulnerable to diseases which can result in death. Acute malnutrition threatens the lives of 19 million children, and every year at least 3.5 million of them die from malnutrition-related illnesses.
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