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| | Date Posted : Nov 20,2007 | | JCC President's End of Year Statement |
All of Jamaica would have listened with great expectation to the address to the Nation by our Prime Minister Golding on November 11th. The Prime Minister has clearly put to us the challenges that the administration and country faces. | | Click here to read more... | |
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| | Date Posted : Oct 26,2007 | | State of Jamaica's Roads |
The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce views with much concern the deteriorating state of our roads. Many roads in the Corporate area alone are now riddled with craters, making driving a nightmare. It is a recurring problem whenever there are heavy rains. This brings into serious question the quality of workmanship and the specifications related to road construction over the years. We would expect that there are three features which should be integral to determining the minimum standards for road construction: | | Click here to read more... | |
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| | Date Posted : Oct 24,2007 | | Choosing a Police Commissioner |
The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce would like to join those voices in the society which are calling for a different type of approach to be taken to choosing a new Commissioner of Police at this crucial time in the nation’s history. | | Click here to read more... | |
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| | Date Posted : Sep 18,2007 | | Proposed Restructuring of the Customs Department |
In recent times, members of the Customs, Tariff and Port Users Committee of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce have been expressing concern about the ineffectiveness of the systems presently in place at the island’s ports to significantly reduce the level of breaches of the Customs Regulations and the resultant loss of revenue. | | Click here to read more... | |
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| | Date Posted : Aug 26,2007 | | JCC commends security forces, disaster relief groups; calls for lifting of State of Emergency |
On behalf of the board and members of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), I wish to express deepest sympathy to citizens who have been traumatised by Hurricane Dean. Whereas we were spared the full brunt of this hurricane, we are aware of the fact that lives have been lost and many have suffered tremendous loss to property, as well as disruption in their households and businesses. Let us, therefore, use this opportunity to band together with the energy and resilience of the Jamaican spirit which lives, even in the most trying of circumstances. | | Click here to read more... | |
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| | Date Posted : Jul 17,2007 | | Business Community’s List of Demands |
With the General Elections set for August 27, the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce wishes to publicly declare its desire to work closely with members of the next Government Administration to grow the economy and improve the economic and social condition of our people. | | Click here to read more... | |
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| | Date Posted : Mar 12,2007 | | CLARIFICATION NEEDED FROM T&T GOVERNMENT RE LNG AVAILABILITY |
The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce calls on the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to give its official position on the status of 1.1 million tonnes of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) that was agreed for delivery to Jamaica each year to facilitate the US$1.6 billion expansion of Alcoa’s refinery in Jamaica. Our understanding is that Trinidad had agreed to supply this amount of LNG, with the only point of negotiation being whether this would be delivered at the domestic rate paid by Trinidadians for natural gas, or at a higher, negotiated rate. It must be clear to everyone within CARICOM – of which both Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago are senior members – that if these anticipated supplies do not materialize, it could seriously jeopardize the immediate future of a major project which is critical to national development in Jamaica, while also having the potential to threaten the future of the CARICOM Single Market itself. | | Click here to read more... | |
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| | Date Posted : Jun 19,2007 | | Climate For Encouraging Local Investment in Jamaica |
The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce notes with grave concern the confrontational response of Information and Development Minister Donald Buchanan to comments by business interests noting the lack of a level playing field between foreign and local investment. | | Click here to read more... | |
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| | Date Posted : Apr 26,2007 | | Statement on 2007/2008 Budget |
The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce is concerned that, in 2006/2007, not only did we once again miss our fiscal target but, in a year in which there were no natural disasters, that we should miss it by such a wide margin - the fiscal deficit of 5.3% of GDP is more than twice the projected deficit of 2.5% of GDP. | | Click here to read more... | |
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| | Date Posted : Oct 23,2006 | | Statement on the Trafigura Beheer Political Donation Issue IV |
The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce is fully committed to Campaign Finance Reform. Significant work has already been done by the Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC) and other groups in this area.
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