Jamaica Observer: Record low unemployment rate

November 01, 2018

PRN-Caribbean News Jamaica Observer: Record low unemployment rate Jamaica Observer: Days after synagogue massacre, online hate is thriving Jamaica Observer: 'Step up' HIV treatment in Caribbean, PAHO advisor urges Jamaica Observer: 90% of loans from China to be repaid in 10 years — Clarke Jamaica Observer: Tesha Miller charged Jamaica Observer: Record low unemployment rate PRN-Caribbean News from mikenova (15 sites) THE country's unemployment rate has fallen to a new record low 8.4 per cent, according to the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) Labour Force Survey for July 2018. This out-turn is 1.3 per cent lower than the 9.7 per cent recorded for the April 2018 survey. Read More Jamaica Observer: Days after synagogue massacre, online hate is thriving PRN-Caribbean News from mikenova (15 sites) PITTSBURGH, USA (AP) — A website popular with racists that was used by the man charged in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre was shut down within hours of the slaughter, but it hardly mattered: Anti-Semites and racists who hang out in such havens just moved to other online forums. Read More Jamaica Observer: 'Step up' HIV treatment in Caribbean, PAHO advisor urges PRN-Caribbean News from mikenova (15 sites) APPROXIMATELY 15,000 Caribbean nationals are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) each year, and approximately 10,000 living with the dreaded disease die annually. Read More Jamaica Observer: 90% of loans from China to be repaid in 10 years — Clarke PRN-Caribbean News from mikenova (15 sites) FINANCE and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke says 90 per cent of outstanding debt to the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of China will be repaid in 10 years. Dr Clarke informed that 99 per cent of the loans secured from China on behalf of Jamaica are at fixed interest rates of two and three per cent, which “are among the lowest interest rates in our entire loan portfolio”. Read More Jamaica Observer: Tesha Miller charged PRN-Caribbean News from mikenova (15 sites) REPUTED leader of the Klansman Gang Tesha Miller is to appear in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on November 9. Miller, who was arrested along with his girlfriend and another man at a plaza in Barbican, St Andrew, on Monday, was yesterday charged by detectives from the Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime Investigation Branch (C-TOC) with accessory before and after the fact for a murder that was committed in 2008. Read More

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