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Minister of State in the Ministry of Energy and Mining, Hon. Laurence Broderick, has described Jamaica's National Energy Policy (NEP) as "very timely", in light of the increasingly important role of energy in Jamaica's socio-economic development. He said that NEP, approved by Cabinet in October 2009 and tabled in Parliament as a White Paper in December of that year, aims...

Over 200 teachers and lecturers, who have been trained in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) under the e-learning programme, were presented with their certificates at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston, on Friday (June 18). This brings to over 11,000 the total number of teachers who have been trained to use the technology that they will need to integrate into...

United States-based lighting and solar technology company GreenRg Management, LLC, plans to invest in Jamaica through its Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology. The company manufactures various products using LEDs, which are semiconductor devices that create light without the use of mercury or gas. GreenRG Management has already produced items such as LED indoor and outdoor fixtures, lighting controls, light bulbs...

Young people in Port Maria and its environs were sensitised about the various income-earning opportunities available through the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) as the Caribbean ICT Road Show continued its islandwide awareness tour. The event, held at the St. Mary Parish Library, featured exhibitions and demonstrations by e-Learning Jamaica Project and Virtual Mall Jamaica.com. There was also...

State Minister for Energy and Mining, Hon. Laurence Broderick, has said that Jamaica is advanced in the development of renewable energy, surpassing a number of Caribbean countries. "We are very much ahead of the other islands," he noted for example, that Trinidad and Tobago was just looking to develop a centre of excellence for renewable energy, while Jamaica already had...

Minister of Energy and Mining, Hon. James Robertson, says the soon to be implemented Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project represents a major revolutionary move for Jamaica's energy sector. "It is going to mean that Jamaica is free, at last. Free to compete, free to process bauxite to alumina, free to build a sustainable tourism industry and free to manufacture," remarked...

Minister of Energy and Mining, Hon. James Robertson, has informed that implementation of the Government's Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project, is expected to save the country some US$1.2 billion in energy costs. "It will be a turning point when this project is implemented in the first quarter of 2013," the Minister said, at a post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House,...

Government is to begin talks for the establishment of a floating storage and re-gasification unit, which will form the centrepiece of the Government's planned energy diversification programme, which involves the use of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Minister of Energy and Mining, Hon. James Robertson, in a statement to the House of Representatives on Tuesday (June 15), said Cabinet has given...

The Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica's (PCJ) Consultant on the Government's Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project, Joseph Fossella, has said that it is an opportune time for the country to take advantage of the abundant supply of the "cost effective" energy alternative. The Ministry has been working to source cheaper alternative fuel, primarily LNG, and is in the process of implementing...

Director General of the office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Ronald Jackson says that his office is in discussion with cellular phone and subscriber television (STV/cable) licensees about informing their customers of impending disasters by posting ODPEM bulletins. At a meeting with of the multi- agency National Disaster Committee at Jamaica House yesterday, Prime Minister Bruce Golding was...

Consumers are set to see a reduction in their electricity bills within the coming weeks. Minister of Energy and Mining, Hon. James Robertson, says that given the decrease in fuel prices and the revaluation of the Jamaican dollar, customers across all tariff groups will see a marginal reduction in their energy bills for the month of June. He said that...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is to recognize members of staff who have helped the Ministry save approximately $6 million on its energy bill for its offices in downtown Kingston during 2009/10. Speaking in an interview with JIS News, Director of Corporate Planning in the Research and Planning Unit at the Ministry, Andrea Patterson Morris, says the Ministry...