Science, Energy and Technology Minister, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, continues to discourage persons from accessing electricity illegally. He says this is imperative in order to reduce inconveniences incurred by service providers, and other persons and entities connected to the national power grid. The Minister was speaking at a lighting ceremony for the community of 43c Featherbed Lane in South...

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, says the Government is committed to lower electricity rates, notwithstanding the increase given to the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), recently. In an interview on the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) television programme, ‘Issues and Answers Programme’, he said the JPS was granted an average 2.6 per cent rate increase...

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, has reaffirmed Government’s commitment to strengthen its cybersecurity capacity to protect sensitive information held on public-sector information technology (IT) platforms. Addressing Chief Executive Officers and Heads of IT departments in the public sector at a Cyber and Data Security conference, held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston on...

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Dr. the Hon.  Andrew Wheatley, says it is important for the country to position itself to capture its fair share of the ship refuelling market, with the recent opening of the expanded Panama Canal. Dr. Wheatley was speaking at the signing of an agreement in which Jamaica Broilers has sold its Ethanol producing and...

Science, Energy and Technology Minister, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, says Jamaica’s consumption of petroleum-based fuels must be further reduced, in order to generate potentially greater benefits for the country. Dr. Wheatley says the Government’s commitment to achieve this by increasing renewable energy options is “unquestionable”, pointing to 80 megawatts of the alternative resource, which will be incorporated into the...

Residents of communities involved in the Street Lighting, Installation, Loss Reduction and Community Renewal (SILC) programme will benefit from vocational training. Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, made the disclosure at a recent JIS Think Tank. He said the training will be provided under the social aspect of SILC through collaboration with the HEART Trust/NTA....

State Minister for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, is encouraging technology innovators to develop applications that can be utilised by Government to improve its operations and processes. “The Government definitely needs more of you to look at some of the problems we have in governance and find new ways for us to solve those problems,” he said. “I...