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Official flyer for the Jamaica Business Development Corporation’s ‘Tax Talk’ workshop.

 

JBDC Hosts Two-Day Workshop on Filing Taxes

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 31 Jan 2024    admin   
The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), in partnership with Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ), will host a two-day workshop from January 31 to February 1, 2024 to assist businesses with filing their taxes. Dubbed ‘Tax Talk’, the workshops will be held via the Zoom platform, starting at 10:00 a.m. daily. To be conducted by Tax Education Officers, the workshops will expose business owners within the micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) sector to training and much-needed information on how to meet their filing obligations. Day 1 of the workshop will be for persons whose...


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National Quality Awards Programme Coordinator and Senior Standards Development Officer at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica, Cecelia Johnson Rowe.

 

BSJ Invites More MSMEs to Register for NQA Programme

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 31 Jan 2024    admin   
The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) is inviting more micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the manufacturing, agriculture and service sectors to register for its National Quality Awards (NQA) programme. Now in its 20th year, “the NQA is Jamaica’s first quality systems-based awards programme implemented to recognise and reward local companies that have demonstrated the application of standards and quality systems in both the production of goods and the delivery of service,” explained the Programme’s Coordinator and Senior Standards Development Officer at the BSJ, Cecelia...


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PHOTOS: Senator Aubyn Hill Welcomes Directorate-General at EU Commission

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 31 Jan 2024    admin   
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill (second left) and Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with oversight for Skills and Digital Transformation, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon (second right), share a moment with European Union (EU) Ambassador to Jamaica, Her Excellency Marianne van Steen (left); and Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), Félix Fernández-Shaw. The event was a cocktail reception held in honour of Mr. Fernández...


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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - Women Entrepreneurship Support (WES) Project

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 29 Jan 2024    admin   
The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce is inviting women business owners and women start-ups in the parishes of St. Thomas, Manchester & Westmoreland to benefit from: Business Formalization Training Business Registration with Companies of Jamaica Financial Aid with Equipment Support of up to $25,000 SEE FULL FLYER HERE SEE link below to registration form: https://forms.office.com/r/TpEUFCTkjS Deadline: February 2, 2024 For information please call 876-968-7116 or visit www.miic.gov.jm REGISTER NOW! at www.miic.gov.jm


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PRESS RELEASE: MIIC Celebrates Surge in Consumer Confidence, Confirms the Government’s Commitment to good Management of the Jamaican Economy

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 29 Jan 2024    admin   
The latest Jamaica Business and Consumer Confidence Survey shows that the Consumer Confidence Index has surged to a remarkable 174.7 points in the fourth quarter of 2023, marking an impressive 8.5% growth from the previous quarter. This positive development underscores the inherent resilience of Jamaican consumers and their firm positive expectation to return to pre-pandemic economic conditions. The Ministry of Industry, Investment & Commerce welcomes this surge in consumer confidence which is a clear testimony of the solid and consistent management of the Jamaican economy that the Andrew...


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Official flyer for the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) ‘Fundamentals of Business’ workshop.

 

JBDC to Host Online Workshops on Business from Jan. 23 to Feb. 13

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 23 Jan 2024    admin   
The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) will be hosting a series of online workshops geared towards teaching participants the fundamentals of starting and running successful businesses. To be held from January 23 to February 13, the four-week workshop will cover one of four modules each Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. These are Entrepreneurial Mindset and Business Formalisation, Design Thinking and Value Proposition, Marketing Fundamentals, and Start-up Financing and Costing. Presentations on the various modules will be done by industry experts. The programme is being offered...


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Minister of Industry Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill (right), and Chief Executive Officer, Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA), Kelli- Dawn Hamilton (centre), listen as Chief Executive Officer, German Ship Repair Jamaica (GSRJ) Limited, Colonel Martin Rickman, explains the operations of the GSRJ's 235 metre-long Panamax-size floating dry dock, JAM-DOCK-1, which is moored at the entity’s shipyard along the Sir Florizel Glasspole Highway stretch of Kingston Harbour. Teams from the Ministry and the JSEZA toured the shipyard on Tuesday (January 16).

 

 

GSRJ Undertaking Work on Second Ship-Servicing Project

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 19 Jan 2024    admin   
German Ship Repair Jamaica (GSRJ) Limited is now undertaking work on its second ship-servicing project with ‘The Vikrant Dolphin’. The vessel, which is currently moored in the shipyard in Kingston, is a diving support barge registered in St. Kitts and operating in the Gulf of Mexico within the offshore oil industry. Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill, said the Government has ensured that the appropriate framework has been established to facilitate the industry’s development in Jamaica. “It is a whole new industry here in Jamaica, and it is not just the...


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Mugs are raised for the launch of the seventh staging of the Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Festival, slated for Saturday, March 2. Celebrating (from left) are Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill; Chair of the Gastronomy Network, Nicola Madden-Greig; Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green, and Executive Director, Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), Dr. Carey Wallace. The launch was held at Devon House in Kingston on Tuesday (January 9).

 

Seventh Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Festival Slated for March 2

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 16 Jan 2024    admin   
The seventh staging of the Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Festival is slated for Saturday, March 2 at Newcastle in St. Andrew. The festival offers patrons the opportunity to explore Blue Mountain Coffee and coffee-related products, and experience the coffee culture through food and activities. Addressing Tuesday’s (January 9) launch at Devon House in Kingston, Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, shared that the coffee beverage constitutes only 20 per cent of the by-products that can be derived from the coffee bean, noting that the remaining 80 per cent is virtually wasted. Consequently, he...


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Dr Velton Gooden (third left), executive director, Bureau of Standards Jamaica, and Dr Kevin Brown (third right), president, University of Technology, Jamaica, display folders containing copies of a memorandum of understanding signed between the university and the bureau on Friday, December 15, 2023, at the institution's Papine campus for the procurement of research services for Regulatory Impact Assessment of Jamaica's trade sector. Also sharing in the moment are Sharian Hanson (left), legal officer, and Julia Bonner Douett (second left), director, Standards Division along with Professor Kamilah Hylton (second right), dean, Faculty of Science and Sport and Ave McIntosh (right), head, School of Mathematics and Statistics.

UTech, BSJ signs MOU for research services in trade industry

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 22 Dec 2023    admin   
The University of Technology, Jamaica inked an agreement with Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) for the procurement of research services geared towards a Regulatory Impact Assessment of the country's trade sector. The agreement came into effect on Friday, December 15, 2023, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) by executive director, Bureau of Standards Jamaica, Dr Velton Gooden and president, University of Technology, Jamaica, Dr Kevin Brown at the university's Papine campus. Under the MOU, UTech, Jamaica has been contracted by the BSJ on behalf of the Ministry of...


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Director of Communications, Consumer Affairs Commission, Latoya Halstead, speaks at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank on December 14.

CAC Encourages Consumers to Reduce Cash Use During Christmas Season

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 21 Dec 2023    admin   
Consumers are being encouraged to strategise and reduce their use of cash during the holiday season and even beyond. The advice comes from the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC), in light of an increase in complaints of challenges in accessing cash at automated banking machines (ABMs). Director of Communications, Latoya Halstead, told a JIS Think Tank on December 14 that those persons who can, should consider online transactions for bill payments and other expenses. “Many persons are going to be trying to access cash. It is going to be an issue. So, you need to prepare because, at the end of...


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