The Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) has established registration fees for Data Controllers. Under the Data Protection Act, persons who hold, receive, use, collect or deal with personally identifiable information of any individual are considered data controllers and must register with the OIC. Registration began on December 1, 2023, and data controllers were given a six-month grace period to...

The Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) is reminding data controllers to commence registration as of June 1, 2024. Applications are being accepted for the December 1, 2023 to November 30, 2024, period. Under the Data Protection Act (DPA) 2020, data controllers are considered to be organisations or individuals that process the personal information of others. Registration was initially scheduled...

The Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) will proceed with the registration of data controllers in several categories as a matter of priority, beginning June 1, 2024. These include Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government; data controllers in high-risk sectors such as financial, health, education, tourism, and ICT Services; data controllers who are required to appoint a Data Protection Officer...

The Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), located downtown Kingston, has been selected as the 2024 National Labour Day Project. Activities will focus on the building of a ramp and preparations for the installation of an elevator to enhance access to the institute’s cultural and heritage resources. Labour Day will be observed on Thursday, May 23 under the theme: 'Ramp up di...

Special Projects Manager at the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Montego Bay Regional Office, Sharon Earle (left), gifts grade-four teacher at Glendevon Primary School in St. James, Tessah Whittingham (centre) and Literacy Coordinator, Delfern Lewis, a JIS publication, ‘A Different Hurricane and Other Jamaican Stories’, to aid students in their reading and comprehension skills, on Read Across Jamaica Day, Tuesday, May...

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Information, Hon. Robert Morgan, has the attention of grade-four students at the Mocho Primary School in Clarendon as he reads to them during his visit to the institution on Tuesday (May 7) for Read Across Jamaica Day activities.

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Information, Hon. Robert Morgan, is calling on Caribbean countries to invest in bolstering government communication and improving access to information. He made the call as he addressed the World Press Freedom Day gala in Georgetown, Guyana, on Friday (May 3). “As a region, we need to strengthen...

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Information, Hon. Robert Morgan, says there is need for a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) information ministers forum. He said that the grouping would function in a similar manner as the CARICOM forum of foreign ministers, which meets to discuss regional foreign policy and community governance matters. “[This is]...

Jamaica has moved up eight places in the latest World Press Freedom Index and is now the number-one ranked country in the Caribbean. The country now ranks 24 out of 180 nations in the 2024 release of the World Press Freedom Index, with a score of 77.3. Jamaica was ranked 32 in last year’s index. The latest Index was compiled...