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Jamaican businesses are being encouraged to enhance their employees' competencies in information technology (IT) through certification by the International Computer Drivers Licence (ICDL) programme. This, as a number of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) took part in a sensitization seminar on the ICDL certification programme, which is being promoted by the Jamaica Computer Society Education Foundation (JCSEF). The seminar took place...

Executive Director of the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO), Loreen Walker has said that the new Patents and Designs Bill now before Parliament will extend the term of a patent from 14 to 20 years. However, while inventors were being allowed a longer period of protection for their work, the Bill now requires that they pay an annual fee to...

Minister of Commerce, Science and Technology, Phillip Paulwell has said that the Government was making strides in the development of the country's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector, despite various challenges. The Minister was speaking this week at a signing ceremony for a loan agreement between the Government and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for an ICT project. Pointing to...

Basic school children in Southwest Clarendon are to benefit from 10 computers donated by JAMALCo, the bauxite and alumina company in the parish. The computers were handed over recently at a ceremony held at the Clarendon Early Childhood Resource Centre in Four Paths. This donation is being complemented by a training programme launched this week, under which basic school teachers...

Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona, Professor Errol Morrison has said that a research consortium, consisting of four major tertiary institutions and one research institution, aimed at prioritizing the research portfolio mainly in the areas of health, culture and the environment, was recently established in Jamaica. The...