The Organization of American States (OAS) has deployed a team of experts to Kingston, Jamaica, at the request of the country´s government, to provide cyber security incident management support and to help establish the country’s National Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), as part of a broader initiative by the OAS Cyber Security Program which includes the creation of a National...

The number of secondary institutions offering Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programmes is to be increased to nine, come the 2015/16 academic year. Chief Education Officer, Dr. Grace McLean, made the disclosure during the Planning Institute of Jamaica’s (PIOJ) recent two-day labour market forum at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston. She informed that the Ministry of Education has...

Work is underway on the re-wiring of houses and installation of several streetlights in McGregor Gardens, Kingston, as the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) moves to regularize electricity in the area. This is being done through the ‘Project Step Up,’ which is a $30 million partnership between the JPS and the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). It aims to tackle...

Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell, has reaffirmed Government’s commitment to implement number portability in Jamaica by May 31, next year. “We have now gazetted all the rules dealing with number portability and I have mandated the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) and all the providers that come May 31, 2015, we will have full portability,”...

Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell, is encouraging more Jamaican students to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects. This, he said, is important, as the Government continues to focus on science and innovation as an integral part of national development. “We wouldn’t mind that every single student would take those four subjects… I want...

Twenty-five female students, aged 11 to 15 years, are being trained to become coders as part of the Government’s thrust to increase skills in information technology for national development, and boost the number of women in the male-dominated field. Coding is the process of writing specific instructions for a computer to perform a particular task or action. Coding is what...

Twenty-five female students, aged 11 to 15 years, are being trained to become coders as part of the Government’s thrust to increase skills in information technology for national development, and boost the number of women in the male-dominated field. Coding is the process of writing specific instructions for a computer to perform a particular task or action. Coding is what...