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August 2024
 

08 August 2024

Manager – Anti-Money Laundering, at the Companies Office of Jamaica, Inger Hainsley-Bennett.

 

COJ Sets Up Help Desk to Assist Customers with Their Applications

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 08 Aug 2024    admin   
The Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) has established a Rejection Help Desk to assist customers facing issues with their applications. Designed to reduce the number of documents that are rejected due to inaccuracies and incompetencies, this initiative is one of the crucial steps the COJ has taken to make doing business easier. Manager for Anti-Money Laundering at the COJ, Inger Hainsley-Bennett, told JIS News that “persons who have issues completing their applications can now receive assistance from our internal staff, who will provide personalised guidance to help rectify any problems with...


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Manager for Anti-Money Laundering at the Companies Office of Jamaica, Inger Hainsley-Bennett, speaks at a recent Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank.

 

COJ Expanding Online Service Offerings

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 08 Aug 2024    admin   
The Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) says that by the end of the current financial year, its customers will witness an even broader array of online service offerings. Speaking at a recent Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank, Manager for Anti-Money Laundering, Inger Hainsley-Bennett, said, “As we move further into the digital age, bringing more services online continues to be our priority.” Currently, customers can only complete new company and business registrations online; however, by March 2025, they will be able to not only register their new businesses but also renew them online...


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Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill, addresses the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ) Conference and Awards Ceremony held recently at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.

Global Services Sector Continues to Drive Employment Growth

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 08 Aug 2024    admin   
The Global Services Sector (GSS) continues to be a major employment driver with a 61.5 per cent increase in the number of jobs created over an eight-year period. Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill, said that 52,000 persons are now employed in the sector, moving from 32,000 in 2016. He was addressing the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ) Conference and Awards Ceremony held recently at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. The event, under the theme ‘Forward Thinking…What Lies Ahead’, brought together stakeholders from the BPO sector,...


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Director of the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) Incubator and Resource Centre, David Harrison (right), leads a tour of the Agro-processing Incubator located at the centre at the grand opening in November 2023.  From left are Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Sancia Bennett Templer; Head of Cooperation – Delegation of the European Union, Aniceto Rodriguez Ruiz; JBDC Chief Executive Officer, Valerie Veira; and Advisor to the Vice-President of Operations, Caribbean Development Bank, Dr. Darran Newman.

JBDC Served 2,711 MSME Clients in 2023

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 08 Aug 2024    admin   
The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) served 2,711 clients from the micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) sector in 2023 representing various industries. The information is contained in the Planning Institute of Jamaica (JIS) Economic and Social Survey Jamaica 2023, which was tabled in Parliament recently. Manufacturing accounted for 16.8 per cent of client served, followed by the Service sector at 11.1 per cent and Retail, 10.8 per cent. “Another 9.1 per cent included Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting. Accounting for the remaining 52.2 per cent were Education...


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