‘The Adventures of Kam Kam’, a Jamaican space exploration story produced by ‘Listen Mi Caribbean’, took the coveted top prize in the Concept Pitch competition at the recently concluded KingstOOn animation film festival. The five-member team was declared the winner after presenting a framework for the 52-episode pre-school animation series to the judges in a five-minute pitch at the University...

Systematic Land Registration (SLR), utilised by many countries around the world to increase land tenure regularisation, is to be adopted in Jamaica. Senior Director of the National Land Agency’s (NLA) Adjudication Services Division (ASD), Shalise Porteous, tells JIS News that the process will enable the entity to achieve its mandate of issuing 20,000 certificates of title in three years. “Systematic...

Internationally, March 22 is celebrated as ‘World Water Day’, and this year the Government will begin to upgrade a water supply system in Font Hill, St. Thomas, to commemorate the day. The theme for World Water Day 2019 is ‘Leaving No One Behind’, and the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, through the National Water Commission (NWC) and the...

The HEART Trust/NTA and the Essex Valley Community and Associates (EVC) have joined forces to launch the EVC’s Employment Certification Programme. The EVC is the business unit or income-generating arm of the Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO)/Alpart bauxite company’s Community Council and is a registered charitable organization. It assists in providing labour to JISCO/Alpart by first offering employment opportunities...

The Government is embarking on a US$5.3-million project to build the country’s resilience to climate change. Dubbed the North Eastern Coastal Resilience Building project, it is one of three components under the Enhancing the Resilience of the Agricultural Sector and Coastal Areas to Protect Livelihoods and Improve Food Security Programme. It is being implemented by the Planning Institute of Jamaica...

The Jamaica Stock Exchange’s (JSE) globe-topping performance and success in 2018 is, to a great extent, being attributed to ongoing strengthening and consolidation of the country’s macroeconomic environment. Bloomberg Businessweek, in a January 18 article titled: ‘Welcome to Jamaica, Home of the World’s Best Performing Stock Market’, notes that the value of JSE’s main index [in U.S. Dollars] rose by...

A group of enterprising young entrepreneurs has been gearing up to fill the void anticipated from the impending Government ban on single-use plastic items, which is slated to take effect on January 1, 2019. The operators of the fledgling business entity, Those Creative People Tings (TCP Tings), which is known for its signature line – ‘One Bag Ah Tings, have...