The All-Jamaica Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 1.2 per cent in May 2021 as released today by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN). The increase in the inflation rate was impacted by a 3.4 per cent upward movement in the index for the ‘Housing Water, Electricity, Gas and Other Fuels’ division. The index for the heaviest weighted division ‘Food...

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) wishes to advise the public, that a decision has been taken to close its St. Andrew Revenue Service Centre (Constant Spring Tax Office), today, Monday June 7, 2021 until further notice. The closure has become necessary, as the Jamaica Fire Brigade conducts an investigation into a fire which was detected earlier today in a section of...

The Registrar General’s Department (RGD) wishes to advise its valued customers, that effective Tuesday, June 1, 2021, the design of vital records with amendments will change. All approved corrections will now be entered in the appropriate line (for e.g. Line 7 for Name of Child – ZADIE), while the incorrect information will be placed in the designed Amendment section and...

Online voting for the Office of Utilities Regulations (OUR) Guaranteed Standards Jingle Competition ends today (May 14) at 6:00 p.m. The competition is geared towards generating publicity around the standards, which are minimum service-level agreements between the OUR and the major utility companies to ensure value to customers. Public Education Specialist at the OUR, Elizabeth Bennett Marsh, told JIS News that...

Members of the Senate today (May 7) paid tribute to the late Ambassador, Hon. Anthony Johnson, who died on April 28 at the age of 82. Ambassador Johnson was a former Jamaica Labour Party Member of Parliament, Senator, diplomat, economist, lecturer and Ambassador to the United States. He was also High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, non-resident Ambassador to the...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is encouraging householders to cooperate with the officers who are out in the field gathering data for the pilot of the 2022 Population and Housing Census. Data collection got underway on April 19 and usually lasts for approximately eight weeks. Director General of STATIN, Carol Coy, told JIS News that a significant portion of...

On Monday, May 3, the Public Procurement Commission rolled-out the Supplier Registration System (SRS) ‑ its novel online registration and licensing platform for the suppliers and contractors of goods, services and infrastructural works who are seeking to be registered or re-registered for serving public sector organisations. The SRS is a new web-based application, and submissions are made easier using an...