The Government is in the process of recruiting a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to oversee the operation of Start Up Jamaica. Minister of State for Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Julian Robinson, who made the disclosure to JIS News, informed that applicants are currently being shortlisted and it is hope that the successful candidate will be named by the...

The Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI) today (June 2) officially unveiled an upgraded suite of simulators and an alternative energy system to facilitate training at the institution. The project was undertaken at a cost of $162 million, with $135 million provided by the Universal Service Fund (USF). It includes special simulators, 60 computers, communication infrastructure and a 125-kilowatt solar energy system....

The Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining has granted a 21-day extension to telephony service providers to have their infrastructure up and running to facilitate the roll-out of number portability on Monday, June 22. At a meeting at the Ministry on May 29, involving stakeholder partners, the Minister, Hon. Phillip Paulwell, was requested to grant the extension as testing...

The Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy, and Mining is in talks with several potential investors to provide funding and business development support for young technology innovators and entrepreneurs benefitting under Start-Up Jamaica (SUJ). State Minister, Hon. Julian Robinson, said the Government is looking to partner with these investors in order to provide the budding entrepreneurs with a “broad range of...

Eight primary and infant schools in the Corporate Area are to benefit from the services of a mobile computer lab. Dubbed ‘Tech De Bus II’, the unit was donated to the Ministry of Education by the Project for the Advancement of Childhood Education (PACE) Canada. The eight schools, which will have access to the lab in the first phase of...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, says an important element to improving the country’s business environment is through trade facilitation. “Effective trade facilitation pivots on the principles of ease, transparency and predictability,” Mr. Hylton said. The Minister was speaking at the opening of a Trade Facilitation Task Force Validation workshop, being held from May 14 to 15...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) is to conduct an islandwide survey on behalf of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, to determine why the country has been losing its ranking on the world telephony penetration index. “After 15 years of liberalisation and Jamaica leading the region, we have slipped somewhat in our ranking.  We believe there...