More than $90 million has been allocated for energy conservation in schools, and the development of special education centres in the 2017-18 budget. This is outlined in the Estimates of Expenditure which was tabled in the House of Representatives on February 9. During the next financial year, energy audits and structural assessment of 30 secondary schools will be completed, as...

The Scientific Research Council (SRC) is inviting schools to send representatives to workshops where the Council will seek to provide guidance to schools and teachers participating in their upcoming Science and Technology Fair later this year. These workshops, which will be held in January and February, will guide teachers through the scientific method, science fair-project process as well as provide...

PRESS RELEASE - Mandela Park is now officially the second public Wi-Fi facility, in Jamaica, following yesterday’s (Thursday, January 12) launch staged by the Universal Service Fund in conjunction with the Ministry of Science Energy and Technology the Fund’s USF ConnectJA project. Making the point that “2017 will be bigger and better when it comes to technological development,” Dr. the...

The Minister of Science, Energy and Technology (MSET) will be introducing licences for electricity power wheeling shortly. Wheeling will allow Jamaicans who generate excess electricity in one location to be able to use the credit obtained from the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) at another site. Portfolio Minister, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, said it will be useful to persons with...

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, presented laptops to the two top-performing students in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Information Technology examination for 2016. The students, Desmond Edwards and Kharissa King, are currently in lower sixth-form at Campion College. Desmond Edwards received top marks for the entire region in Information Technology, while Kharissa received...

The Government is undertaking a three-year project that is expected to cut energy costs in the public sector by putting renewable systems in place and increasing conservation methods. The Deployment of Renewable Energy and Improvement of Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector Project is being undertaken through US$12,003,741 in funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Trust Fund. The United...

Paul Jackson is the winner of the ‘Environmental Sustainability Award’, at the recently held National Innovations Awards at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, in New Kingston. He received the award for his invention ‘Environment Focused Recycling Machine’. The inventor said that he has had this idea for approximately two years, and started working on it in 2014. With a degree in...

In a drive to facilitate greater Internet access to Jamaicans, the Government will continue to roll out free secured Wi-Fi hotspots in popular public places across the island. The initiative is being made possible through the Universal Service Fund (USF), an agency of the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology, which will carry out the installation in the select locations....

The Government will be making changes to critical pieces of legislation that will enable a more robust framework in protecting personal information in cyberspace. These include the Data Protection Act, which is slated to be tabled in Parliament next year, and the establishment of a single Regulator for information and communications technology (ICT). This was disclosed by Minister of Science,...