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Acting Principal Director, National Spatial Data Management Branch (NSDMB), Simone Lloyd, speaking during a recent Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank, at the agency’s head office in Kingston.

GIS Day Expo Returns to UWI on November 16

The annual GIS Day Expo returns to its home base at the University of the West Indies (UWI) this year, with an array of activities to engage attendees and participants. The 20th staging of the National Spatial Data Management Branch...

Acting Principal Director of the National Spatial Data Management Branch (NSDMB), Simone Lloyd, addresses a JIS ‘Think Tank’, on October 28. The NSDMB is the Secretariat of the Land Information Council of Jamaica (LICJ), which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. At the Council’s December 10 Awards Ceremony and Banquet, local institutions and individuals will be specially recognised for their use of geospatial technologies.

Individuals And Institutions to be Recognised for Use of Geospatial Technologies

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda (left), in discussion with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Officer, Water Resources Authority, Tricia-Rae Rodriques, during the launch of activities for Geography Awareness Week, the 20th staging of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day and the 30th Land Information Council of Jamaica (LICJ) anniversary banquet, at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew, on November 3.

Geospatial Technologies Critical for Economic Growth

Contract Feature Added to New Social Housing Programme

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addresses a signing ceremony for a $163.5-million-dollar contract for phase three of the Fairfield to Point Road Rehabilitation Project in St. James, on Monday (October 24) at Jamaica House.

$163.5-Million Contract Signed for Rehabilitation of Friendship to Hurlock Road

Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda (left), turns on a tap symbolising the official commissioning of the National Water Commission (NWC) newly upgraded Sligoville water system in St. Catherine, on October 13. Looking on (from second left) are Member of Parliament, St. Catherine North Central, Natalie Neita-Garvey; Councillor, Sligoville Division, Dwight Burke; and NWC executives – Vice President for Operations, Kevin Kerr, Network Field Operation Manager for St. Catherine, Calvert Davis, and Regional Manager, St. Catherine/Clarendon, Garwaine Johnson.

3 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure DevelopmentWater

PHOTOS: Minister Samuda Officially Turns On Upgraded Sligoville Water System

Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda (left), turns on a tap symbolising the official commissioning of the National Water Commission (NWC) newly upgraded Sligoville water system in St. Catherine, on October 13. Looking on (from second left) are Member of Parliament, St. Catherine North Central, Natalie Neita-Garvey; Councillor, Sligoville...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator Matthew Samuda.

3 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure DevelopmentWater

Mona Reservoir Floating Solar Project to Generate $1B in Annual Savings

The Mona Reservoir Floating Solar Project in St. Andrew is expected to generate approximately $1 billion in annual savings for the National Water Commission (NWC). This was disclosed by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda, who said the savings should be realised from the pending finalisation of wheeling rates....

3 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

Export to Create Wealth – Senator Hill

A group of budding entrepreneurs are being advised to look to get their goods and services into the export market to create wealth for themselves and the country. “Export if you want to be rich and make Jamaica rich in the process,” said Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill. He was addressing the 24 graduates...

Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister (West), Hon. Homer Davis (seventh left), shares a moment with operators of local economic initiatives (LEIs) in St. James and representatives of the Social Development Commission (SDC) and Rotary Club of Montego Bay, during the SDC’s Economic Empowerment Forum at the entity’s St. James Office at Albion in Montego Bay on Thursday, October 13.

3 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

Operators Of Local Economic Initiatives Get Business Support

More than a dozen operators of local economic initiatives (LEIs) from communities in St. James benefited from business and capacity-development support during an economic empowerment forum staged by the Social Development Commission (SDC). The event was held at the SDC’s St. James Office at Albion in Montego Bay, on Thursday, October 13. The forum, which formed part of the entity’s...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda (left), turns on the upgraded White River Exchange re-lift station, during the recent commissioning ceremony in Ocho Rios, St Ann. Sharing in the moment is Member of Parliament for St. Ann North Eastern, Hon. Marsha Smith.

3 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure Development

More Than 10,000 St. Ann Residents Have Improved Access to Water

More than 10,000 residents of Exchange and surrounding communities in St. Ann North Eastern now have increased access to water supply, following the completion of work on the Exchange White River re-lift station and replacement of the Upton tank. The facilities, which were upgraded by the National Water Commission (NWC) at a cost of $141 million, were recently commissioned into...

Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator Hon. Matthew Samuda, gets ready to place a fruit tree seedling into the prepared planting hole, during the National Tree Planting Day Ceremony held at the Ebony Park Agro Park in Clarendon on October 7. At right is Stephanie Campbell from the Forestry Department.

3 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure DevelopmentFinance & Public Service

Southern Clarendon Mangroves Being Restored

Measures are being taken to restore and protect the mangroves in Southern Clarendon and boost income-generating opportunities for residents. The region has the largest area of mangrove degradation in the island due to, among other things, unsustainable land use activities such as the cutting down of trees to burn coal. Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and...

3 years ago CoronavirusEconomic Growth & Infrastructure Development

LAC Countries Largely Recovered to Pre-Pandemic Levels

The World Bank is reporting that Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) economies have largely recovered to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, and the region “has regained some sense of normalcy”. “Employment levels have almost fully recovered… schools have reopened and, with exceptions in the Caribbean, the high rate of vaccination against COVID-19 allowed for a return to normalcy,” the Bank indicated in...