The digitised Traffic Ticket Management System (TTMS) has resulted in greater efficiencies, reducing the number of issues associated with writing tickets by 90 per cent, the Ministry of National Security reports. The system allows the police to issue tickets using a mobile device and printer. The data instantly uploads to the centralised TTMS database, which is accessible by the Jamaica...

Jamaica’s cybersecurity infrastructure has been strengthened through various initiatives collaboratively undertaken by regional and international partners. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, while addressing the opening ceremony for the CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) regional cyber awareness session at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on...

The Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, through the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB), will be providing 2,250 scholarships to boost the country’s capacity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) over the next five years. On Thursday (June 29), the STEM Scholarship Programme will be launched, through which full tuition scholarships will be granted to some 1,250 new student-teachers...

Jamaica generated US$325.4 million in export earnings for the first two months of the year. The sum represents a 54.6 per cent increase on the US$210.4 million earned for January and February 2022. The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), in a statement on Monday (June 26), indicated that the growth was primarily due to a 133.1 per cent increase in...

Regional Director, Region 7, Ministry of Education and Youth, Barrington Richardson (left) and Senior Operations Manager, Digicel Foundation, Jodi-Ann McFarlane, sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), for the establishment of a Smart Room at the Mineral Heights Primary School in Clarendon, during a ceremony held at the school today (June 26). Looking on (from left, standing) are Board Chairman, Mineral...

Over 1,500 households on the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH) will benefit from digital literacy and skills training under a partnership between the Universal Service Fund (USF) and telecommunications firm, Flow. Representatives of the entities, on Friday (June 23), signed a Project Funding Agreement at the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) Auditorium in Kingston to facilitate pilot...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) on Thursday (June 22) officially launched the ‘Data 4 Development’ Online Monitoring Platform at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel in Kingston. The Platform supports the use of data and statistics for analysis, monitoring and evaluation by all stakeholders. It will also strengthen the PIOJ’s ability to support policy development, the alignment of planning and development...