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Animation Specialist in the Digital and Animation Industry Project of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Robert Reid, speaking at a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’. He provided details of the KingstOOn Animation Conference and Afro-Descendant Festival, to be held from March 12 to 13 at the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts.
Animation Specialist in the Digital and Animation Industry Project of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Robert Reid, speaking at a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’. He provided details of the KingstOOn Animation Conference and Afro-Descendant Festival, to be held from March 12 to 13 at the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts.

Prizes For Persons Taking Part In Animation Conference

By: Tomeica Gunn, February 18, 2016
A trip to an international film festival and networking with some of the industry’s biggest names are some of the rewards for participants at the KingstOOn Animation Conference and Film...
Minister of Finance and Planning, Hon. Dr. Peter Phillips (2nd right); Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton (2nd left); and Managing Director, Red Stripe, Ricardo Nuncio (left), listen to Chairman, Red Stripe, Richard Byles. Occasion was a press conference at Red Stripe’s Spanish Town Road headquarters on Wednesday (Feb. 17), to announce the resumption of production of beer in Jamaica for export to the United States.

Jamaica to Resume Red Stripe Production for North American Market

By: Chris Patterson, February 18, 2016
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton (centre), addresses the launch of Jamaica’s first Corporate Governance Code for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) at the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica’s (PSOJ) head office in Kingston on Friday, February 12. He is flanked by PSOJ Chairman, William Mahfood (left), and Managing Director of the Development of Jamaica (DBJ), Milverton Reynolds. The Corporate Governance Code was developed through financial assistance of $1.73 million from the DBJ.

Minster Hylton Welcomes Corporate Governance Code for MSMEs

By: Denise Dennis, February 13, 2016

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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (2nd left), performs the symbolic ribbon cutting exercise to formally open Sutherland Global Services’ New Kingston offices on January 22. Others in foreground (from left): are Chief Commercial Officer, Sutherland Global Services, K.S Kumar; Chief Delivery Officer, Sutherland Global, Jan Uhrich; Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton; and President, Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Dianne Edwards. Others in the background (from left) are: Country Head and Associate Vice President, Sutherland Global Services, Odetta Rockhead Kerr; Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting; and Member of Parliament for South Central St. Catherine, Dr. Andrew Wheatley, who represented the Leader of the Opposition, Andrew Holness.
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BPO Sector to Create 6,000 Jobs

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, says that eight of the approximately 40 business process outsourcing (BPO) companies operating in Jamaica have five-year expansion plans that could create...
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By: Chris Patterson, January 26, 2016