Stakeholders in Jamaica’s petroleum industry are to benefit from training and technical services from experts out of Mexico. This is being facilitated under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which was signed today (March 6) between Group General Manager of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), Winston Watson; and Director General of the Mexican Petroleum Institute, Dr. Ernesto Rios Patrón. Foreign...

Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Nestor Mendez, has hailed implementation of the organisation’s ‘A New Path’ project in Jamaica, noting that it is positively changing the lives of the beneficiaries and guiding them along a path of economic independence. He was speaking during a site visit to the all-female South Camp Correctional Facility in...

Director General in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Vivian Brown, has encouraged Jamaicans to support the Government’s National Quality Policy 2017, as it aims to increase the nation’s annual gross domestic product (GDP) and export earnings. According to Mr. Brown, the new policy will help with quality upgrading of locally produced goods and services to internationally required...

Twenty young entrepreneurs from communities within the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park are to benefit from $1 million in grant funding to enhance their operations. The support is being provided by the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport under an initiative to assist residents of Portland, St. Andrew and St. Thomas to tap into the business and...

The mining division of the Ministry of Transport and Mining is placing greater focus on the diversification of the minerals sector. In an interview with JIS News at the recent 24th Bauxite and Alumina Conference, Principal Director, Minerals Policy Planning and Development Division in the Ministry, Dr. Oral Rainford, said that the development of industrial minerals has been placed on...

Assistant Director General for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Latin America and the Caribbean region, Dr. Julio Berdegué, says member states should provide a clear political mandate to guide the organisation’s activities over the next biennium. He notes that the FAO has been focusing on improving the quality of its agreements with the Governments, in...

The first 9,600 solid state water meters being supplied to the Government by Diehl Metering are expected to be delivered within another two months, after which the National Water Commission (NWC) will begin installation. A total of 450,000 meters are to be provided by the German company, under a US$43.9 million contract awarded last year to replace mechanical water meters...