'Ja lagging in productivity' - Experts say country behind Barbados et al - Wages and labour costs named as factors
JAMAICA'S PRODUCTIVITY will have to improve if the country is to progress in the modern global economy, according to leading Caribbean analysts, citing dismal performance in several sectors and a continual failure to properly address the issue...

JUTC Smart Card launch in Dec
THE GOVERNMENT has spent $200 million to put in place a cashless fare collection system that will be launched in mid-December on all 620 buses in the fleet of the Jamaica Urban Transit Co. (JUTC).

Task force to review funding for elections
A TASK force to look at the possibility of state funding of political parties is to be set up in the coming months. The proposal for the task force has found favour with the P.J. Patterson-led Government...

Downtown vending on Portia's agenda
PORTIA SIMPSON Miller, Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, is to head a group which will examine the problems of sidewalk vending in downtown Kingston with a view to putting in place improvement strategies, starting next year.

Violence halts garbage collection
TONS OF garbage were left uncollected on several major thoroughfares in downtown Kingston up to midday yesterday as collectors stayed away from the area following an outbreak of violence on Saturday.