Director, Economic Reform Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Richard Lumsden says open data is a critical component of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) process. Open data is digital information that is made available with the technical and legal characteristics necessary for it to be freely used, reused, and redistributed by anyone, anywhere at any time. “It...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Road Jockey, a Montego Bay based food delivery service, Rajiv Maragh, says the company intends to eventually, get into the CARICOM market. “We feel like the Caribbean deserves the service that the rest of the world gets. We are really striving to just [improve] what we have, grow and just keep expanding as much as...

Jamaicans living in Hartford, Connecticut in the United States, are set to benefit from the services offered by the Passport Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA), at the Access Jamaica initiative. The event, which will be held at the Collin Bennett Building located on 1229 Albany Avenue in Hartford from October 8 to 10, 2021, will allow members of the diaspora...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Information, the Hon. Robert Morgan says the Government is committed to fast tracking the review of the Access to Information Act reforms. “The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is currently awaiting comments from the Attorney General’s Chamber on a Cabinet submission with respect to this review. Once the comments...

Director, Economic Reform Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Richard Lumsden says the draft Open Government Partnership (OGP) national action plan is slated for completion by the end of October. The OGP is a forum of countries working to be more open, accountable and responsive to citizens. The Government of Jamaica became a member of the OGP...

The Forestry Department has forged new partnerships which will enable the country to meet the National Tree Planting Initiative (NTPI) of three million trees in three years. This was disclosed by Chief Executive Officer and Conservator of Forests, Ainsley Henry, while speaking at the Department’s National Tree Plating Day Ceremony on October 1. “I must thank some of our newest...

The Government is working on a comprehensive National Broadband Strategy that will support the islandwide broadband network being developed. Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Daryl Vaz, said that the strategy “will look at all the factors that will support the viability of the network, once implemented, and the use of same by all segments of the population”. He...