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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    user   
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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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    user   
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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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    user   
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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Business Mission to Mexico

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 24 Jul 2024    user   
On an export and investment business mission to Mexico, Senator the Hon. @aubyn.hill, Minister of @industryminja and delegation, was hosted at a breakfast meeting by Mexican Business Council for Foreign Trade (COMCE), July 18th. COMCE is the umbrella organization of the private sector whose mission is to promote foreign trade and foster the development and competitiveness of Mexican companies. This meeting provided networking opportunities with key business people from COMCE membership and the Jamaican public and private sector delegates. Minister Hill stated that we are looking to partnering...


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Business Mission to Latin America

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 24 Jul 2024    user   
While on his way to a business mission to Latin America, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill, Minister of @industryminja toured the Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) HQ in Miami today, July 17th. GEM is a global humanatarian organization founded by Michael Capponi that has done several outreach projects in areas that have affected by disasters such as in Brazil during the 2023 floods, and the ongoing war in Ukraine. GEM has already started work in Jamaica with food and supply donations in St.Elizabeth and Clarendon, which will be followed up with additional supplies as well as help to rebuild several...


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The Jamaica Special Economic Zones Authority’s office on Waterloo Road in St Andrew

Realtors encouraged to take advantage of growing investment opportunities in SEZs

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 12 Jul 2024    user   
The Realtors Association of Jamaica (RAJ) and its 1600-strong membership are being urged to seize the growing investment and development opportunities that exist in Jamaica’s Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and those that abound internationally. Minister of Industry, Investment, & Commerce Senator Aubyn Hill and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) Kelli-Dawn Hamilton pointed to some of these investment opportunities as they addressed the RAJ’s recent annual general meeting (AGM) at the Summit in New Kingston. The AGM, which brought together...


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CEO of Bluedot Larren Peart and chair and business development director of ActionINVEST Caribbean Inc, Dr Vishnu Doerga signs partnership in Guyana on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 while Jampro President Shullette Cox, and Senator Aubyn Hill, minister of industry, investment and commerce in Jamaica, looks on.

Bluedot drills down on data, expands Guyana operations

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 12 Jul 2024    user   
Bluedot Insights, the Jamaica-based market research and data insights company, has made a play for a share of Guyana’s booming oil and gas sector, and has formalised a strategic partnership with Guyanese company ActionINVEST Caribbean Inc to help realise the goal. “We want to benefit from providing data and research services to the oil and gas industry,” Larren Peart, CEO of Bluedot, told the Jamaica Observer in an interview. “We did business over here [Guyana], but we didn’t have a proper setup — we didn’t have a formal presence. And now we’re forming a local company to take advantage of the...


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Exporters encouraged to apply for origin certificates to benefit from duty concessions

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 12 Jul 2024    user   
The Trade Board Limited (TBL) is encouraging exporters to apply for certificates of origin to benefit from duty concessions. Issuing of the certificate of origin enables qualifying Jamaican products, exported under various preferential trade agreements, to be granted concession in the form of duty free or reduction of duty. Public Relations Officer at the TBL, Rushelle Whyte, said that having a certificate of origin will reduce costs for exporters. “It essentially is your ticket to pay little or no duty to the country you are exporting to. Say you are… the company that is exporting your...


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JBDC and Securys Partner To Assist MSMEs with Data Protection

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 12 Jul 2024    user   
The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), in its efforts to assist Micro, Small & Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) with digital transformation, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with international specialists in privacy management, Securys Limited. This will see the Agency moving to assist entrepreneurs with implementing data privacy and protection best practices in accordance with the Data Protection Act of 2020 (DPA). The signing took place at the JBDC Head Office in Kingston on Tuesday June 18, 2024. Valerie Veira, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the JBDC...


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JAMPRO makes call for investment projects

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 12 Jul 2024    user   
Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), the country’s premier export and investment agency, is making a call for investment-ready projects to fuel the nation’s economic expansion. In a post on its LinkedIn page, JAMPRO says it is actively seeking investment-ready projects, which it plans to package and promote in its investment promotions campaign. JAMPRO is asking investors if they have a project ready to take off to come in so the local investment promotions agency can help them to package and promote these investment options to potential investors. “Together, we’ll champion sustainable...


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