Local businesses are being encouraged to start practising the country’s data-protection standards, ahead of the full implementation of the Data Protection Act, 2020. The Act will take full effect in November 2023. Information Commissioner, Celia Barclay, said this will help entities to become familiar with the guidelines and implement measures that will prevent them from committing avoidable breaches. Under the...

Plans are being made to review the public procurement system as the Government aims to achieve greater levels of efficiency. Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, said this will be a “data-driven approach towards reviving the procurement system”. “The Ministry is undertaking a data-intensive process where we will be retrieving information on 27 variables...

The Government is actively working on short-term, medium-term and long-term solutions to the issue of flooding in the town of Lucea in Hanover. Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister (West), Hon. Homer Davis, made the disclosure following a tour of the flood-prone areas in the below-sea-level town on Wednesday (August 17). He told JIS News that...

Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Audley Shaw, says the Government is committed to getting the trains rolling again and is prepared to forge the necessary partnerships in the undertaking. He said the revival of islandwide rail service will take “several hundred millions of US dollars”, and will include “putting in a new bridge to go to Spanish Town, and...

Some $20 million has so far been issued to the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries for a special incentive programme for land preparation. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr, said: “During my sectoral presentation, we made a commitment to support new farmers through this programme, at a value of $63 million, and I...

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The regional investment community now has a 24-hour cable television channel, the Caribbean Business Exchange (CBX), dedicated to providing comprehensive information on industry developments. A division of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), the CBX will broadcast on channel 143 on the Flow Network and 28 on Digicel. The channel was formally launched by JSE Managing Director, Dr. Marlene Street Forrest,...