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Jamaica, Women and ICT
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day was May 17. This year’s theme focused on Achieving Equality in ICT for Women and Girls. The State Minister in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining in Jamaica, Mr Julian Robinson, was honest when he admitted to being challenged to speak on this theme. Read more »
UWI Researchers Propose Marrying Mobile Money To Banks
A new report is proposing that the central bank require providers of mobile money services to do business through the banking system, to ensure there is no gap in the financial regulatory structure once the market takes off in Jamaica. Read more »
Manufacturing Needs A Saviour
Data from the Planning Institute of Jamaica, spanning 1982 to 2010, shows that real growth of gross domestic product (GDP) averaged less than two per cent per year. Read more »
Media freedom and the new challenges
Here in Jamaica, what are seeing? 38 per cent of Jamaicans use the Internet at least once per day. This, according to an islandwide survey, conducted by Professor Hopeton Dunn of the Mona School of Business's Telecommunications Policy Management Programme Read more »
Gov't Focused on Reducing Cost of Energy
As the government advanced liberalisation plans, Minister Paulwell announced the appointment of a team of experts to the board of the JPS to lead negotiations with executives of the company. Read more »
