The economy grew by an estimated 5.7 per cent during the April to June 2022 quarter. This was announced Thursday (August 18) by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ). Director-General of the PIOJ, Dr. Wayne Henry, said this was spurred by 7.7 per cent growth in the Services Industry, despite the Goods Producing Industry contracting by 0.4 per cent. He...

Construction of a museum to honour and memorialise Jamaica’s first National Hero, the Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey, will be finished during the country’s 60th year of Independence, says Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange. She said that the facility, which is being erected at 32 Marcus Garvey Way in St. Ann’s Bay, St. Ann, where...

The Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) is projecting another record-breaking year for the registration of business names and companies. Registrar of Companies and Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO), COJ, Shellie Leon, shared that 9,943 new business names and 3,277 companies have been added to the register since the start of the year. She said that although the month of August...

The rollout of three new online products is expected to enhance the customer service experience at the Registrar General’s Department (RGD) as the entity continues its digitisation process. In an official launch event on Wednesday (August 17), the services were revealed to be an online application facility for adoption certificates, a real-time search engine for entry numbers and an online...

The Government will be establishing customer service or service excellence units in all ministries over the next two years. The move aligns with the recently launched Service Excellence Policy that will govern the standard of service delivery by the public sector to internal and external customers. Principal Director in the Office of the Cabinet, Public Sector Modernisation Division (PSMD), Karlene...

Since its introduction to the electronic payment landscape in December 2021, Lynk, Jamaica’s first digital wallet, has recorded more than $500 million in transactions on the platform. The Lynk App presently provides an opportunity for individuals, small and medium businesses to be able to pay and receive payments using a smartphone. Addressing a JIS ‘Think Tank’, today (August 18), Chief...

The Ministry of Finance and the Public Service will be staging its first Healthy Wallet Expo on Friday, August 19. The event, which is targeting internal Ministry staff and other public-sector workers, will commence at 9:00 a.m. at the Ministry’s Heroes Circle headquarters. Director of Corporate Communication and Public Relations at the Ministry, Shelly-Ann Weeks, said the event is meant...