The Jamaica Deposit Insurance Corporation (JDIC) during 2021/22 will continue to work on reforms that comply with international standards aimed at minimising the occurrence and impact of financial crises locally. These include establishing newer deposit protection schemes and similar provisions for non-deposit-taking financial institutions, financial consumer protection, and financial inclusion strategies. Details are outlined in the Jamaica Public Bodies Revenue...

This is to advise that the Ministry’s St. Ann Parish Office at 4 Windsor Road, St. Ann’s Bay, St. Ann will be closed to the public today,Tuesday, March 30, 2021. This closure is to facilitate a comprehensive sanitization exercise. The office will be re-opened for business on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 8:30 a.m. The Ministry apologises for the inconvenience...

This is to advise that the Ministry’s Westmoreland Parish Office at 18 ¼ Lewis Street, Savanna- La- Mar, Westmoreland will be closed to the public today, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. This closure is to facilitate a comprehensive sanitization exercise. The office will be re-opened for business on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 8:30 a.m. The Ministry apologises for the inconvenience...

Effective Monday, March 29, the Integrity Commission will not accept statutory declarations at its offices located at 45-47 Barbados Avenue, Kingston 5. The Commission, in a statement, said that in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, it has established submission points within each public body for the submission of statutory declarations by all officers required to file such declarations. “In...

Cabinet has given approval for the acquisition of property at 26 Rose Street in Savanna-la-mar, Westmoreland, at a cost of $38,500,000 for the continued operation of the Family Court. Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, made the disclosure during the post-Cabinet press briefing held virtually on March 24. She noted that in 2019, the property owners indicated...

The Government is providing $119 million to assist farmers with the transportation of 35,000 tonnes of sugar cane to the Worthy Park Factory in St. Catherine for the 2020/2021 crop year. Making the disclosure during Wednesday’s (March 24) virtual post-Cabinet press briefing, Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, said that support will benefit farmers from Clarendon, St....

Further to the announcement of extended curfew hours under the Disaster Risk Management Enforcement Measures, the Registrar General's Department wishes to advise its valued customers that all RGD offices will be closed to the public on March 26, April 1 and April 9 2021 respectively. The following services will be temporarily suspended as follows:- Next Day Service - March 25-26...