Jamaica’s Solar Industry To Receive A Major Boost From USSolar
By Nicholas Brown Jamaica is an island in which the solar panel industry is small, but the Jamaican government’s Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) have implemented some policies that would provide solar panel owners and prospective buyers with more options…
Digicel Limited Commences Tender Offer And Consent Solicitation For Any And All Of Its 12% Senior Notes Due 2014
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Digicel Limited (“Digicel” or the “Company”) today announced that it has commenced a cash tender offer, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Company’s Offer to Purchase and…
NCC Endorsed Contracts –January 2013
NCC Endorsed Contracts –January 2013The following contract award recommendations have been endorsed and/or approved by the National Contracts Commission (NCC) during January 2013, for award, under the powers which are reserved to the NCC by Sections 23D(1)(b) & (c) of…
OCG responds to Opposition Spokesman, Karl Samuda’s concerns
OCG responds to Opposition Spokesman, Karl Samuda’s concerns regarding the OCG’s involvement in the impending divestment of the Norman Manley International Airport Kingston; February 19, 2013 – The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) has taken note of the concerns…
Jamaican Authors Launch Books Together
Howard Hamilton and Adam McIntyre Take Readers into the Court and Prison Systems Defence lawyer extraordinaire Howard Hamilton and veteran correctional officer Adam McIntrye visit Books & Books, Camana Bay on Friday, February 15, from 7-8:30pm for the joint launch…
Bob Marley birthday marked in Jamaica
Friday, 08 February 2013 11:45 Written by Theo Chambers Hundreds of tourists joined dreadlocked Rastafarian priests, leading reggae musicians and some of Bob Marley’s relatives at the late reggae icon’s old house in Jamaica to mark the 68th anniversary of…
OAS Permanent Council Approves Final Schedule of Meetings on the Strengthening of the Inter-American Human Rights System
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today approved the schedule of meetings for the last stage of the process of reflection on the Functioning of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for strengthening the…
Church welcomes three bishops and honours members
It was an unusual sight but it made St. George’s Anglican Church very proud to welcome not one, not two, but all three bishops from Jamaica. The three bishops arrived for the Annual Corporation and Council Meeting that was held…
Jamaica NCC endorsed contracts
Jamaica NCC endorsed contractsThe Office of the Contractor-General is the Secretariat for the Contractor-General and the National Contracts Commission. However, both the Contractor-General and the National Contracts Commission are independent, separate and distinct Commissions of Parliament. The Contractor-General is responsible…
Drug boat interception – Three now charged
The three Jamaican nationals arrested last week (22 January 2013) following the interception of a drug canoe have now been charged by the RCIPS. The 57, 44 and 43-year-old men have been charged with importation of ganja and possession of…
