Latest

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, addresses today’s (September 26) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House. At right is Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Fayval Williams.

Cabinet Approves Joint Venture Agreement for Technology Park in Portmore

Cabinet has given approval for a joint venture agreement for the development of the Naggo Head Technology Park in Portmore, St. Catherine. The deal is between the Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) and China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) for the...

Leader of Government Business and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith, speaks in the Upper House on September 21.

Senate Passes Bill to Indemnify Spectrum Management Authority

JamaicaEye Project Coordinator, Emil Holgate, addresses a meeting of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce & industry at the group's offices at Union Street on Wednesday (September 19).

More CCTVs for Montego Bay Under JamaicaEye

Prime Minister Andrew Holness stands by the Wall of Fame at the FESTO FACT Centre at Caribbean Maritime University along with other persons who were instrumental in the establishment of the centre. (Left to right) Dr Wesley Hughes, Shakierah Cowan, Dr Alwyn Hayles, Phillip Paulwell, Dr Grace McLean, Dr Omar Davies, Senator Ruel Reid, Mrs Audrey Sewell, Rev. Wellesley Blair & Professor Fritz Pinnock.

Alignment of Political Perspective Brings Projects to Fruition – PM Holness

A fully outfitted laboratory at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) Festo Authorised and Certified Training (FACT) Centre for Mechatronics and Automation, which will be officially opened at the CMU’s Palisadoes Park campus on September 19.

CMU Opens Fact Centre September 19

Project Manager for the Improved Safety and Security in Schools Project, Yvonne Brown, addresses a JIS Think Tank on August 14.

8 years ago EducationTechnology

Schools Equipped with Metal Detectors

A total of 130 schools have been equipped with hand-held metal detectors and walk-through devices installed in five institutions under the US$4 million Improved Safety and Security in Schools Project. The initiative, launched in June 2017, involves partnership between the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and is being coordinated by...

Young Innovators/Inventors Science Club Coordinator, Seaview Gardens Primary School, Racquel Rose Taylor (third left), outlines features of the ‘Emergency Respirator (ER)’ project, which won the school first place in the primary school category of the Scientific Research Council’s (SRC) National Science and Technology Fair and Competition in 2016/17. Club members Jadon Willis (left), Rihanna Hinds (third right), and Akail Black (second right), demonstrate how the respirator works. Looking on are School Principal, Sangieanna Reid Prince (second left); and club member, Sue Ann Jones (right).

8 years ago EducationScienceTechnology

Seaview Gardens Primary Nurturing Young Scientists

Seaview Gardens Primary School in Kingston has rapidly gained the enviable reputation of being a cradle for budding young scientists and innovators. Since 2014/15, this beacon of knowledge and education, which sits majestically in the community for which it is named, has copped the primary school category of the Scientific Research Council’s (SRC) annual National Science and Technology Fair and...

Public Relations Officer at the Post and Telecommunications Department, Kathy-Ann Yetman.

8 years ago Technology

Customers of Gayle Post Office to Collect Mail in Port Maria

Communities previously served by the Gayle Post Office in St. Mary will be able to access their mail and any other postal services at the Port Maria Post Office, and their pension at the Lucky Hill Post Office in the parish. The new arrangements, which are temporary, have been implemented due to the destruction of the Gayle Post by fire...

Senior Director, Modernization Initiatives and Strategic Projects, Ministry of National Security, Arvel Grant, making a recent presentation on the ‘JamaicaEye’ initiative at the Management Institute for National Development (MIND) in Kingston.

8 years ago JusticeTechnology

Police Increasing Use of Technology to Arrest Crime

Within the next three years, Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) personnel will be using more technological solutions in their daily operations in a bid to reduce incidents of crime and their likely occurrence. Some of the technology-based software tools being developed, which should become fully operational by 2021, include: Jampol Stats; JCF Docs application; the QR Code; and Station Records Management...

Senior Technical Specialist, e-Gov Jamaica, Walt Brown, addresses a JIS Think Tank on Tuesday (July 25).

8 years ago Technology

eGov Jamaica Testing Electronic Verification System for NIDS

Work is advanced in developing the technology architecture that will be utilised for the electronic verification of persons under the National Identification System (NIDS). Senior Technical Specialist, eGov Jamaica, Walt Brown, said that the framework for the web-based system has been completed and is undergoing testing. He was speaking at a Think Tank at the JIS’s Half-Way Tree Road headquarters...

Science and Technology Minister, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley (second right), is being shown a tablet by Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Elect, Dr. Garth Anderson (right), at the opening ceremony of a one-week Excellence in STEM Experimental Education (EXSEED) Jamaica 2018 workshop, at the Excelsior Community College in Kingston on July 17. Looking on (from left) are Principal of the Excelsior Community College, Philmore McCarthy; and Director of EXSEED at Loma Linda University, Douglas Havens.

8 years ago Technology

TAP to Reach 2,000 Young People Next Year

The number of beneficiaries under the Technology Advancement Programme (TAP) is set to double next year to reach 2,000 unattached youth. Science and Technology Minister, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, made the disclosure while addressing the opening ceremony of the Excellence in STEM Experimental Education (EXSEED) workshop at the Excelsior Community College in Kingston on July 17. Spearheaded by the...

Jamaica Eye Project Coordinator, Emil Holgate, speaks at a JIS ‘Think Tank’, today (July 18), at the agency’s Head Office.

8 years ago National SecurityTechnology

JamaicaEye Now Has Over 100 Private Partners

More than 100 private partners have joined the network of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras being used for the JamaicaEye initiative since its inception in March 2018. The programme, which was implemented in an effort to utilise both private and government cameras to monitor public spaces, is being used to monitor crime, accidents, natural disasters or other emergencies, to make response...