Caribbean | Jamaica | Politics

‘Women make good managers’ – Edwards wants more female ministers in next PNP government

Jennifer Edwards, the president of the People's National Party Women's Movement, has declared that, in addition to having a female prime minister, she is hoping that women will take over critical ministerial portfolios such as national security and finance after the next general election. "The Women's Movement looks forward to seeing the first female minister of finance of this country. After the next election, we look forward to seeing the next minister of national security being a female. We look forward to seeing the minister of transport and works being a female because, Comrades, we ar

Caribbean | Jamaica | Agriculture

Deck stacked against rural women

Source: The Gleaner

The Jamaican Network of Rural Women Producers is moving to promote meaningful dialogue it hopes will go a far way in dismantling long-standing institutionalised biases which have been instrumental in keeping women, especially in rural Jamaica, firmly rooted at the foot of the economic ladder. President Mildred Crawford told The Gleaner that in observance of International Day of Rural Women tomorrow, the local body has organised four events from October 20-28, to raise public awareness about how the deck is stacked against women in Jamaica. In citing statistics to support this claim, Craw

Caribbean | Jamaica | Economy

Jamaica in First ‘Women in Maritime’ Move

Source: Port Technology

Jamaica is to host the Caribbean’s first ever Women in Maritime Association Conference as a first step towards establishing an International Maritime Organization (IMO) Women in Maritime Association (WiMA) for the region. The conference aims to support regional efforts to deepen the integration of women in the maritime sector through the establishment of a WiMA for the Caribbean. WiMA is the IMO’s gender programme which now marks its 27th year. One of the drivers of the programme has been the establishment of formal regional linkages between women managers in the maritime and port sect