The National Water Commission (NWC) is looking to replace two of three wells at the Low Ground facility in Clarendon with a five-million-gallon water treatment system. Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Information and Member of Parliament for Clarendon North Central, Hon. Robert Morgan, led a water tour of the constituency on Wednesday...

The US$78-million public-private partnership Rio Cobre Water Treatment plant project being undertaken in Content, St. Catherine, is now in the implementation phase. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, who made the announcement in his contribution to the 2024/25 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives recently, said ground has already been broken for the development. “When completed, in two...

The Registrar General’s Department (RGD) is introducing a smart chatbot to improve customer interaction and ease of doing business. The move is part of the agency’s “digitally bold” transformation initiative, introduced since 2020, to bring more of its products and services online to increase efficiency and reduce transaction costs. These include applications for birth, death and marriage certificates. Director of...

Student entrepreneurs are being encouraged to seek support from the Scientific Research Council (SRC). “We want students to see the SRC as a critical resource, and we want students to take up the opportunities that exist through the SRC,” Executive Director of the entity, Dr. Charah Watson, told JIS News. One of the ways the SRC offers support is through...

Stiffer fines and penalties are coming for environmental breaches, says Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda. He provided an update while making his contribution to the Appropriations Bill, 2024, debate in the Senate on Wednesday (March 27). Senator Samuda said amendments will be made to the Wildlife Protection Act...

Jamaica is receiving technical support from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to support the implementation of the country’s National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STI) Policy. Under the organisation’s Global Observatory of Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy Instruments (GO-SPIN) methodology, reliable and relevant information about Jamaica’s STI landscape is being generated to monitor and evaluate performance...

Plans are progressing for the establishment of a Technology Information Centre to give the public access to a database of patents that have already been granted. The centre will be created by the Scientific Research Council (SRC), in partnership with the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO). Executive Director of the SRC, Dr. Charah Watson, told JIS News that the facility...