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On today’s edition of Going For Growth, we hear a few of the steps being taken to entrench BPO in Jamaica

The Government will continue work to strengthen the country’s resistance to the negative impacts of climate change, under the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR II).

Business Process Outsourcing, BPO, which involves subcontracting various business-related operations to a third party provider, is considered one of the most promising areas for spurring job creation and development in the Jamaican economy.

The government has been undertaking several initiatives under the Justice Reform Programme aimed at improving efficiency in the sector.

We look at some of the work and initiatives of the Scientific Research Council (SRC) as it helps to boost and strengthen the Science and Technology sector.

The United States embassy recently announced the introduction of visa requirements for Farm workers on the H-2A programme beginning February 19. Today we’ll examine this new requirement and what it means for Jamaican Farm Workers.

On today’s programme, we single out the presentations of two speakers – Executive Director of the HEART/Trust NTA, Dr. Wayne Wesley, and Executive Director of the Caribbean Maritime Institute, Dr. Fritz Pinnock – who both weighed in on the changes required to help prepare the Jamaican workforce to contribute to growing the economy.

During 2015, the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) continued its quest to develop a world class anti-doping programme, by implementing several initiatives. In this edition of JADCO and You, we will highlight some of the major accomplishments of the Commission throughout the past year.

The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation now has a chance to reach more teen mothers in Clarendon, having recently opened the doors to a new location for its Denbigh Centre.The facility is located on the grounds of the May Pen Hospital and caters not only to adolescents but also to their newborns.

The new Special Economic Zones Act, passed in Parliament in December last year repeals the Jamaica Export Free Zones Act and provides for the development, regulation, construction, supervision, management, and control of Special Economic Zones in Jamaica.

In a move to further make Information and Communications Technology (ICT) an integral component of the teaching/learning process, Government is expanding its Tablets in Schools programme to all teachers’ colleges.

The Sickle Cell Unit of the Tropical Medicine Research Institute at the University of the West Indies, Mona has made tremendous contribution in Sickle Cell Research and Policy making in Jamaica and the region for more than 40 years.