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Senior government ministers have said Jamaica will transition to a republic by 2025 - in time for the next general election

After two years in which they were not allowed to attend the ceremonial opening of Parliament with the usual festivities due to COVID-19 restrictions, supporters of the country's political par...

THE criminal case backlog rate in parish courts has been reduced to below two per cent, the Government has announced. This is according to Governor General Sir Patrick Allen who said that, overal...

THE Government has announced that it will implement a multi-billion, Jamaican-dollar Special Capital Expenditure Programme during the new fiscal year that will see the development of major corrid...

THE Government will be focusing on the reform of the National Insurance Fund (NIF) during the 2023/2024 fiscal year, with the aim of establishing a more robust organisational structure and investm...

After calling for the creation of a new health care agency to move New Mexico closer to "universal health care" in her State of the State address last month, Gov.

WORK is in progress to complete the action plan for implementing the National Diaspora Policy and to review the Foreign Trade Policy Action Plan. During the 2023/24 fiscal year the Government wi...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that States of Public Emergency (SOEs) have been declared for the entire parishes of Clarendon and St Ann, as well as the Kingston Western Police Division, ...

THE National Housing Trust (NHT) will introduce a new financing model during the 2023/2024 financial year which will entail partner arrangements with regulated mortgage-lending institutions. Thi...

GOVERNMENT intends to improve the stewardship of its policies with the appointment of a fiscal commissioner and the operationalisation of an independent commission during the new financial year. ...