Countries in the Region Seeking to Replicate Customs Online System

Jamaica is hosting a best practices workshop with a group of customs personnel from Latin American and Caribbean, who will be undertaking a pilot project of Jamaica’s Customs Automates Services Online System, with a view to implementing the system in their respective customs sectors.
The system was developed by Fiscal Services Limited (FSL), a government-owned information technology company, in response to a charge by Minister of Finance and Planning, Omar Davies, for Custom’s revenue generating systems to be enhanced “to be less dependent on the central government budget.”
Financial Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Colin Bullock, who was addressing the opening of the RED GEALC Customs (Gobierno Electrόnico de Am