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The Nutcracker Is Coming to The Bahamas

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The holidays in Nassau will open with something entirely new this year. New English Ballet Theatre, one of the United Kingdom’s most innovative contemporary ballet companies, is bringing a reimagined production of The Nutcracker to the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar for a two-night debut on Dec. 12 and 13. It’s the company’s first-ever performance in […]

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Increase Economic Cooperation with Japan, Jamaica's Tufton Says

Above: Minister Dr Christopher Tufton (JIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff There are numerous possibilities for significant expansion of trade and investment with Japan, Commerce Minister Dr Christopher Tufton said at a special JAMPRO luncheon hosting Japanese investors Thursday in Kingston. Tufton pointed to the development of Jamaica’s coffee industry as an example of […]

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Jamaica Signs Deal on ICT Loan as Part of Wider Technology Strategy

Above: Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister Dr Christopher Tufton (JIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Jamaica Promotions Corporation and the Development Bank of Jamaica Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding yesterday on a $20 million loan facility to improve investment in the country’s Information and Communications Technology sector. The agreement is aimed at […]

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Holness Names New Jamaican Cabinet

Above: Jamaica’s new cabinet (not pictured: Arthur Williams, Horace Chang) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has named his new cabinet, preserving much of his predecessor’s group but making some changes of his own. The full list is below: Foreign: Dr Kenneth Baugh Finance: Audley Shaw Tourism: Edmund Bartlett National Security: […]

Jamaica Signs Deal on ICT Loan as Part of Wider Technology Strategy

 By the Caribbean Journal staff Several would-be hotel investors in Jamaica are interested in adding casinos to their properties, but it is a process that Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett said would require strict adherence to existing criteria. “All that have come to us already fulfill that criteria,” he said. “One that has come to us, […]

Marcia Forbes: Jamaica after Golding

 By Marcia Forbes A Fractious Party The ruling Jamaica Labour Party is a political party that has experienced a fair share of internecine conflict driven by various factions and what some describe as “unbridled self-interests.” The 1999 “Gang of Five” leadership battle, the 2004 ousting of then leader, Edward Seaga, by the “Young Turks” and […]

Bloomberg Hosts Jamaica Trade Forum

 By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaican political and business leaders recently took center stage at a trade and investment forum at Bloomberg’s international headquarters in New York City, in an event coordinated by Dr Geneive Brown Metzger, Jamaica’s Consul General to New York. Minister of Finance Audley Shaw and Industry Minister Dr Christopher Tufton discussed […]

EU Urges Jamaican Tax Reform

 Above: From left, Industry Minister Dr Christopher Tufton and EU Delegation Head Amb. Marco Alemanni Private and public sector stakeholders in Jamaica should commit to measures to effect tax reforms and contain wage increases if it is to achieve macroeconomics targets, according to Ambassador Marco Mazzochi Alemanni, the head of the Delegation of the European […]

Jamaica Devising a New Building Code

 Above: Kingston The Jamaican government is moving to have a proposed new National Building Act approved, Industry Minister Dr Christopher Tufton said this week. According to Tufton, the first draft of this act has been completed and reviewed by the board-based Building Code Implementation Steering Committee. “We have been working … in terms of the […]

In Jamaica, a Row over Scrap Metal

 Above: From left: Industry, Investment and Commerce State Minister, Hon. Michael Stern and Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Dr Christopher Tufton (right), at his New Kingston offices, Tuesday. (JIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff A controversy is growing in Jamaica over the decision by the government to totally ban the export of scrap […]

Jamaica Bets on Cocoa

 By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica is intensifying efforts to regain its prominence in the cocoa market, with an EU- and USAID-backed plan to rehabilitate approximately 2,000 acres of production by the end of the 2011-2012 crop, and increase production by 400 tonnes. “The foundation of any industry has to be the expansion of primary […]

Improving Jamaican Manufacturing

 Above: Minister of Industry Dr Christopher Tufton (JIS Photo) There still issues for the Jamaican government to adjust as it seeks to expand the country’s manufacturing sector, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Dr Christopher Tufton said. “It’s a challenge, because manufacturing, over the years, has not benefited from a macroeconomic environment conducive to its […]