The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) has secured approximately $4.2 million in refunds and compensation on behalf of aggrieved consumers for the period April to June 2021. Communications Specialist, CAC, Dorothy Campbell, told JIS News that the funds were recovered from the top-five categories for refunds and compensation. These are electrical Equipment and Appliances, where nearly $1.8 million was recovered; Furniture,...

Digital payment solutions facilitator, WiPay, will be providing COVID-19 relief grant support, totalling $4 million, to persons islandwide requiring assistance. Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Aldwyn Wayne, said the provision, which will be disbursed through Food For the Poor Jamaica, forms part of a larger undertaking involving other stakeholder interests. Mr. Wayne advised that the total value of the overall...

The Government has resumed the E-commerce National Delivery System (ENDS) and has granted permission for registered stakeholders to operate until midnight during the coronavirus (COVID-19) curfew hours and on no-movement days. The no-movement days that were recently announced by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, have been implemented to curb surging COVID-19 cases islandwide. Those days are Sunday, August...

A total of 12,809 business names and 3,935 companies were registered by entrepreneurs and investors with the Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) in 2020. This was disclosed by Government Senator, Don Wehby, who indicated that the outturns represent a 12 per cent increase for business names and three per cent rise for companies over 2019, despite the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....

The E-commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS) Pilot Programme will this weekend be given its sternest test as operations are heightened in all fourteen (14) Parishes. This is in keeping with the island-wide rollout announced in the House of Representatives by the Most Honourable Prime Minister Andrew Holness. Kingston and St. Andrew lead the way with close to sixty (60) registered and...

Approximately 248 businesses are expected to utilise the E-Commerce National Delivery System (ENDS) platform this weekend, as the Government continues to expand the service island-wide. The web-based ENDS system enables quick-service industry and delivery stakeholders registered on the platform, to operate during the curfew hours implemented to combat the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. ENDS is a partnership between...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Dr. the Hon. Norman Dunn, is encouraging microfinance institutions (MFIs) to get ready for the Microcredit Act, which, he says, will become effective in July this year. The Microcredit Act 2021, which was passed in January of this year, aims to license and regulate microcredit institutions that provide financing...