Cabinet has signed off on the Terms of Reference for the recently announced Electricity Sector Enterprise Team (ESET) and has issued the requisite appointment letters to the members. The ESET will lead and manage the procurement process for additional baseload electricity generation capacity and related facilities against the background of achieving significantly reduced electricity cost to consumers, while ensuring diversification...

Several technology (tech) entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to establish formal businesses, following their participation in an acceleration programme that will be offered under the Government’s ‘Start Up Jamaica’ initiative. Middle-East based accelerator company, Oasis500, which trains and funds startup tech companies, has decided to partner with the Government under the initiative, to invest in tech entrepreneurs who are interested...

Chairman of the newly established committee to address electricity theft, the Honourable Julian Robinson has invited members of the public to submit recommendations and offer solutions to the problem of electricity theft. “We recognise that there are good ideas out there and we want to be inclusive in our approach to tackling a problem that affects all of us. Based...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller convened a meeting on Wednesday, May 14, with officials from the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited, JPSCo, in the wake of the company’s decision to interrupt service to communities in which it is experiencing up to 70% theft of electricity. The meeting, held at Jamaica House, was attended by Government Ministers Omar...

Three scholarships, valued at $1.5 million, are up for grabs for students desirous of pursuing postgraduate studies in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the new academic year. Valuing $500,000 each, the scholarships are being offered by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining (MSTEM) for study at the University of the West Indies (UWI); University of Technology (UTech)...

Cabinet will be appointing an enterprise team headed by Dr. Vincent Lawrence, to oversee the full implementation of the construction of a 381-megawatt energy plant in Jamaica by 2016. Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell made the announcement, on Tuesday, May 6, as he opened the 2014/15 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives. “The enterprise...

Three state agencies, where the Government’s Energy Conservation and Efficiency Project has been implemented, have recorded $5.77 million in savings since the programme’s commencement in May 2012. This results from total investments of $3.76 million which the administration, through the Science, Technology, Energy, and Mining Ministry, made to implement the project at the entities - the National Housing Trust (NHT);...