The Government has crafted a lean Budget for the upcoming fiscal year, focusing on an ambitious vaccination programme and jobs as linchpins to spark economic recovery. Both the recurrent and capital budgets are flat year on year, but the Government plans to introduce a $60-billion programme it dubs ‘Serve Jamaica’, aimed at facilitating the vaccination…

The country’s unemployment rate increased by 3.5 percentage points between October 2019 and October 2020 to leave 10.7 per cent of Jamaica’s labour force unemployed. The number were released yesterday by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) which further noted that the labour force declined by 51,500 or 3.8 per cent over the year. During…

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica’s (STATIN) October 2020 Labour Force Survey showed increased employment for ‘Real Estate and Other Business Services’. This was the only industry group to record a growth in employment for the period. STATIN Director General, Carol Coy, said that the workforce climbed by 11,100 persons, or 11 per cent, to 105,400.…

By Garwin Davis The University of Technology (UTech), come January 2021, will be offering a landmark four-year Bachelor of Science (BSc/) degree in Mines and Quarry Management. The brainchild of Associate Professor and Head of the School of Building and Land Management at UTech, Laurence Neufville, the course will not only target students from Jamaica…