Mines and Geology Division (MGD) launches its Mineral Information System, a project born in collaboration with the ACP-EU UNDP Development Minerals Programme in 2018. This project involved the creation of a web map showcasing the development of minerals and quarrying activities throughout Jamaica and fits into the overall geospatial data management strategy of the division. MGD has the statutory responsibility...

Managing Director of Ports Security Corps Ltd. (PSC), Major Merrick Lloyd, is satisfied with the level of care taken by the agency and its officers in following the necessary protocols to prevent COVID-19 infection. In an interview with JIS News, Major Lloyd explained that the PSC is responsible for carrying out security screening at the airports and seaports, which necessitates...

The Mines and Geology Division of the Ministry of Transport and Mining has collected $826.8 million in royalties, which is payable to the Government for all the country’s minerals and quarry materials sold or disposed of otherwise. Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Robert Montague, who made the disclosure during his contribution to the 2020/21 Sectoral Debate in the House...

Approximately 5,000 families that have been occupying bauxite lands for several years are set to receive titles for those properties. The Government will facilitate this process through the use of the power of vesting orders under the Bauxite and Alumina Industries (Special Provisions) Act. Making the disclosure, Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Robert Montague, said that the Ministry has...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, Senator Robert Morgan, says once the Forestry Department has completed its 250-kilometre ground-truthing exercise, specific legislation will be promulgated to safeguard the Cockpit Country Protected Area boundary. Making his contribution to the 2019/2020 State of the Nation Debate in the Senate on February 7, he pointed out that the Forestry Department...

Principal Director, Minerals Policy Planning and Development Division in the Ministry of Transport and Mining, Dr. Oral Rainford, is encouraging persons to invest in limestone mining. In an interview with JIS News, Dr. Rainford explained that the Ministry is intent on educating the public about how increasing limestone mining would redound to the country’s benefit. “I don’t think enough is...

Transport and Mining Minister, Hon. Robert Montague, says the Ministry has granted some 90 exploratory licences for semiprecious minerals such as cobalt, copper, gold, silver and zinc, since March 2018. “Right now, almost every square inch of Jamaica is under a prospecting licence for some kind of mineral. The beauty of it, is that most of the companies that are...