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OCG Submits Special Report to Parliament – Expressing Grave Concerns with Cabinet’s Non-compliance with the OCG’s Statutory Requisitions
Kingston; December 13, 2012– The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) has, today, completed and submitted a Special Report to the Houses of Parliament of Jamaica, in which it expressed and documented its grave concerns with the failure [...]
Dr Keith Amiel
Corporate Affairs Manager at Caribbean Broilers, Dr Keith Amiel announced that the company exported a container of chicken to that country this week and plans are also being made to export pork.
He however said, with the company’s facilities up to international standards, more markets will be tapped for exports
Caribbean Broilers are part of [...]
SOUTH FLORIDA – Jamaicans in the Diaspora across the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and the Cayman Islands will experience a touch of a truly Jamaican Christmas when they step into a JN Money Transfer Branch, or Agent location, in their community.
On selected days from December 11 to Christmas Eve, customers sending [...]
By Gemma Handy
THE TCI is being probed by a major worldwide anti-corruption group in the aftermath of the international headline-grabbing Commission of Inquiry.
The investigation by the NGO, Transparency International (TI), is expected to see the Islands ranked for transparency in a global list for the very first time.
It is being headed by award-winning researcher Trevor [...]
Andrew Smilley
Stingray Swim Club, Grand Cayman, 11 December 2012: Stingray Swim Club members travel to Kingston, Jamaica this weekend – December 14-16th – to compete in the 2012 Christmas Open Swimming Championships, taking place at the National Stadium Pool which is an 8-lane, 50m pool.
The 14 swimmer strong squad will compete in over 80 individual [...]
Director of the Jamaica Fisheries Division, Andre Kong; Jamaica Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Roger Clarke; and CRFM Executive Director, Milton Haughton.
Belize City, Belize, Monday, December 10, 2012
The hurricane season just ended, and particularly the trail of death and destruction carved out by Hurricane Sandy in October, has left many with a reminder of just [...]
Belize City, Belize, Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Small-scale fisheries, although they do not land as much produce as commercial or large-scale fisheries, bear far more socioeconomic importance. They produce more fish for domestic human consumption, employ over 90% of the world’s estimated 35 million capture fishers, and support another 85 million people employed in jobs associated [...]
OCG cautiously welcomes the improvement in Jamaica’s transparency International’s 2012 CPI standing but asserts that there is much more to be desired.
The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) has taken note of Transparency International’s (TI), the global anti-corruption watchdog, recent publication of its 2012 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), in which it ranked Jamaica at 83 [...]
Greg Christie
OCG Congratulates Public Bodies for Registering a 100% QCA Report Submission Compliance Rate for Newly Introduced QCA Web Portal
Kingston, Jamaica; December 4, 2012 – The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) congratulates all 197 Procuring Public Bodies and their respective Accounting and Accountable Officers for their compliance, in the interest of public transparency, [...]
Paul Burrowes Thursday, November 29, 2012
JAMAICA will open their preliminary round NORCECA qualification match for the 2014 FIVB Women’s Volleyball World Championship this morning at 11:00 when they take on the Cayman Islands at the Alfred Sangster Auditorium, University of Technology.
Drawn in Pool E, the Shedeiky Hamilton-led girls will also play Aruba tonight at 8:00 [...]
