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Digital Wallets Will Facilitate Seamless Acquisition of JAM-DEX

Persons using special payment wallets to acquire Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) locally, are being assured that the process is easy. Digital payment wallets are the platforms being used for transactions involving the Bank of Jamaica’s (BOJ) CBDC - ‘JAM-DEX’....
Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, making the opening presentation in the debate on the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation) Act, 2022, in Parliament recently.
Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, making the opening presentation in the debate on the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation) Act, 2022, in Parliament recently.

Appeals Process for Firearm License Applications Being Revamped
Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, provides an update on Jamaica’s visitor arrivals and tourism earnings at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Think, held at the agency’s head office on Monday, September 12.
Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, provides an update on Jamaica’s visitor arrivals and tourism earnings at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Think, held at the agency’s head office on Monday, September 12.

Tourism Earnings to Exceed US$4 billion This Year
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre) and Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Audrey Marks (right), tour the Harvard Innovation Lab at the university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday (September 15). They are accompanied by the Director of Alumni Programmes and Engagement, Thara Pillai (left). During a visit to the university, the Prime Minister spoke at a roundtable on ‘Re-imagining the Role of Business in the Public Square’. The event was hosted by Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Business and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre) and Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Audrey Marks (right), tour the Harvard Innovation Lab at the university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday (September 15). They are accompanied by the Director of Alumni Programmes and Engagement, Thara Pillai (left). During a visit to the university, the Prime Minister spoke at a roundtable on ‘Re-imagining the Role of Business in the Public Square’. The event was hosted by Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Business and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

PHOTOS: Prime Minister Holness Visits Harvard University
Executive Director of the Scientific Research Council (SRC), Dr. Charah Watson.
Executive Director of the Scientific Research Council (SRC), Dr. Charah Watson.

Applications Open for SRC’s Young Scientist and Technologist Award

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Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (left) engages in discussion with (from second left) United States Ambassador to Jamaica, Nick Perry; Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Jamaica’s Health Emergencies Advisor, Dr. Marion Bullock DuCasse; Acting Country Representative for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Alex Gainer, and PAHO/ World Health Organization (WHO), Representative to Jamaica, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, Ian Stein. Occasion was the hand over of vehicles and equipment, valued at US$540,000, by the USAID and PAHO/WHO to further strengthen the country’s response to COVID-19. The presentation took place at the PAHO/ WHO country office in Jamaica, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, St. Andrew on September 16.
CoronavirusHealth & Wellness

Jamaica Gets Vehicles and Equipment to Support COVID-19 Response

Jamaica has received a donation of vehicles and vital pieces of equipment, valued at US$540,000, to further strengthen the country’s response to COVID-19. The items, provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), include a 30-seater mobile vaccination unit, a 16-seater corresponding vehicle for field vaccination teams, a...
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Custos of Manchester, Garfield Green, addresses students at a school reopening event at the May Day High School in the parish on September 12.
Education

Students Urged to Use Education to Help Jamaica

Custos of Manchester, Garfield Green, is appealing to students at high schools in the parish to make the best use of their education to help Jamaica achieve the strategic goals under Vision 2030 Jamaica. Speaking at a function at the May Day High School on Monday (September 12), to mark the official reopening of schools in parish, the Custos said...
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Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (left) is in conversation with President of the Rotary Club of Kingston, Karsten Johnson, during the club’s meeting on September 15 at the Pegasus Hotel, Kingston.
Education

Education Minister Urges Partnership Between Parents and Schools to Maintain Discipline

Education and Youth Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, is calling for partnership between parents and schools in maintaining discipline in schools. Reiterating the Ministry’s position that no child should be barred from attending school, she said children should be encouraged to comply with the school rules as they help to promote discipline. “We have to stand up on the side of...
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Commerce

More Young Men Urged to Enter GSS Sector

More young men are being urged to join the pool of workers in the country’s Global Services Sector (GSS). Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill, made the call, while addressing the recent graduation ceremony for the first set of 114 graduates of the GSS apprenticeship programme. “I want to see a lot more men in...
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Managing Director, National Export-Import Bank of Jamaica (EXIM Bank), Lisa Bell (left), and Chief Executive Officer, Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA), Kamesha Blake, display a folder with the partnership agreement signed by both organisations for the ‘EXIM Ecommerce Funder’, to assist small and medium-sized enterprises, on Friday (September 16), at the Bank’s headquarters in St. Andrew. Observing is Business Development Consultant, EXIM Bank, Winston Lawson.
Commerce

EXIM Bank Earmarks $100 Million to Assist SMEs Expansion Online

The National Export-Import Bank of Jamaica (EXIM Bank) has earmarked $100 million for an e-commerce fund to assist small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in expanding their businesses online. Through a partnership with the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA), the ‘EXIM Ecommerce Funder’ will finance up to 80 per cent of the associated costs of critical inputs for SMEs which...
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Prime Minister, the Most. Hon. Andrew Holness (centre), in discussion with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang (left), and Police Commissioner, Major General Antony Anderson, at the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) passing out parade ceremony at the National Police College of Jamaica, in Twickenham Park, St. Catherine, on September 14.
National Security

New Firearms Act to Strengthen Jamaica’s Capacity to Respond to Armed Violence

Jamaica’s capacity to respond to armed violence will be strengthened, following the Senate’s approval of the new Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation) Act 2022, says Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang. Speaking at the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) recent passing out parade ceremony in St. Catherine, Dr. Chang said the Government’s objective is to criminalise all aspects of...
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Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang (fourth right), officially breaks ground for a new $175 million police station in Frome, Westmoreland, on Thursday (September 15). He is joined by (from left): Member of Parliament, Westmoreland Central, George Wright; Deputy Mayor of Savanna-La-Mar, Councillor Danree Delancy; Custos Rotulorum for Westmoreland, The Very Reverend Hon. Canon Hartley Perrin; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Courtney Williams; Police Commissioner, Major General Antony Anderson; Assistant General Manager, National Housing Trust (NHT), Bryan Saunders, and Councillor for the Frome Division, Rudolph Uter.
National Security

New Police Station for Frome in Westmoreland

Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, officially broke ground for a new state-of-the-art police station in Frome, Westmoreland, on Thursday (September 15). The station, to be built at a cost of $175 million with funding from the National Housing Trust (NHT), is expected to provide a more comfortable working and living environment for members of the Jamaica Constabulary...
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