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The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) will, over the next 12 months, embark on the pilot phase of their latest initiative, the non-commercial Mobile Money for Microfinance Project, dubbed M3. The venture, which was launched at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston, on February 11, seeks to increase access to and security of financial service transactions and deliveries, particularly to...

The Government is to receive technical assistance from the World Bank in preparing a master plan to take advantage of investment and other opportunities coming out of the logistics hub project. World Bank representative to Jamaica, Giorgio Valentini, said the World Bank Group has been working closely with the Industry, Investment and Commerce Ministry over the past month and a...

Work is expected to begin on the Caymanas Economic Zone (CEZ) project by May this year, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, has announced. This project is one of several elements comprising the Government’s Logistics Hub initiative. Development of the proposed trans-shipment and logistics hub is being undertaken by the Government in a bid to position Jamaica...

Labour and Social Security Minister, Hon. Derrick Kellier, says the country is currently experiencing an unprecedented degree of industrial stability. Minister Kellier said this is a result of the robust and mature industrial relations mechanism that now exists in Jamaica. Speaking at a press briefing held at the Ministry’s North Street offices in downtown Kingston on February 6, Mr. Kellier...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, says the scrap metal trade is not to be blamed for every theft of metal, either from a private or public space. The Minister was responding to a concern raised in the House of Representatives on January 29 that the re-opening of the scrap metal trade poses a risk to public...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, is encouraging members of the Consular Corps to assist in attracting investment from the global trading community, in the development of Jamaica’s global transshipment and logistics hub. Mr. Hylton extended the invitation during an awards dinner hosted by the Consular Corps of Jamaica for visiting directors of the World Federation of...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, has given the Government’s commitment to continue to work towards ensuring that more local companies can gain access to overseas markets. He made the comment during a tour of Rainforest Seafoods’ new state-of-the-art facilities on Friday (January 25) on Slipe Pen Road in Kingston, where he lauded the company’s efforts towards...

Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister, Hon. Anthony Hylton, says Jamaica is well advanced in its plan to expand the Port of Kingston. The port will be ready to accommodate supersized vessels when the Panama Canal expansion is complete in 2015. Minister Hylton pointed out that Jamaica is already a major trans-shipment corridor and a leading trans-shipment point for containerized cargo...

Scrap metal traders will have to abide by a number of stringent rules to keep their licences, when the trade officially resumes on Monday, January 28. Announcing a raft of rigourous regulations at a press briefing at his New Kingston offices on Thursday (Jan. 24), Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, said there is a global demand...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, says the establishment of the Jamaica Logistics Hub is aimed at stimulating and sustaining growth in the medium and long term, while totally transforming the country’s economy. “This is the most transformative economic activity that we will undertake as a government, in partnership with the Jamaican private sector, the global investment...

The food testing laboratory of the Scientific Research Council (SRC), has become the first such facility in Jamaica to become accredited to international standards. The SRC received its certificate of accreditation from the Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC), today (January 22), at a special ceremony at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston. Speaking at the event, Minister of Industry,...

In an effort to improve the island’s Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (MSME) sector, the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) has partnered with two entities to assist them with implementing standards and/or quality systems within their organisations. To this end, two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) were signed on January 17, between the BSJ and the Jamaica Manufacturers’ Association (JMA); and...