Chief Executive Officer (CEO), National Land Agency (NLA), Elizabeth Stair, says work to produce 20,000 new titles is to commence this financial year. This is to be achieved through Systematic Land Registration (SLR), which should enable the NLA to achieve its mandate of issuing 20,000 certificates of title in three years. “We have identified the areas we are going into,...

Learning for 46 children across the island has been strengthened with a donation of 46 tablet computers by the Ilah’s Lemon-Aid Stand for Kids Foundation. The Foundation, headed by 11 year-old Imani-Leigh Hall, with endorsement from the Early Childhood Commission (ECC), and sponsorship from the business sector, recently staged a virtual 3K run to raise funds to purchase the computers...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang (right); Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson (centre) and Opposition Spokesman on National Security, Fitz Jackson (left), at the Thanksgiving Service for the late Detective Corporal, Dane Biggs, held today (July 18), at the Evangel Temple Deliverance Centre, in Portmore. Detective Biggs was one of three Policemen killed by gunmen in...

Residents of Mt. Salem, in St. James, are lauding the Government for the compassionate grant in their time of need. One recipient, Ruby Grant, told JIS News that she is appreciative of the compassionate grant of $10,000, paid under the COVID Allocation of Resources for Employees (CARE) programme, which she received in May. The grant is aimed at assisting persons...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government has made good on the promise to reform the housing agencies, with many Jamaicans now having an easier path to home ownership. Mr. Holness, who was giving the main address at the handing over ceremony of a one bedroom unit to a physically challenged man in Bogue District, St. Elizabeth,...

Stakeholders in the entertainment and creative industries are being encouraged to sign up with the Government’s e-registry, in order to benefit from various incentives. Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, made the call during her contribution to the 2020/21 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives, on Tuesday (July 14). “Practitioners who register with the e-registry,...

Earlier this year, Bank of Jamaica indicated a willingness to consider the use of central bank digital currency (CBDC). In a step further, the Bank is now formally inviting interested CBDC providers to develop and test potential CBDC solutions in its recently established Fintech Regulatory Sandbox. The Sandbox provides a controlled environment where technological financial innovations such as CBDC can...