Jamaica News Bulletin

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Sub-regional Office for Barbados and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) are pleased to announce the upcoming Finals, Expo and Award Ceremony of the Caribbean Innovation Challenge (CIC) that will take place on April 25-26, 2013 at the Hilton Hotel Resort in Barbados.

The Caribbean Innovation Challenge (CIC) is an international entrepreneur competition and business start-up accelerator for young people in the CARICOM Member States. Awarding projects in three categories (Social, Economic and Environmental), the CIC promotes innovation, social enterprise and the development of entrepreneurial initiatives in diverse and new sustainability sectors. The CIC is a component of the UNDP project Youth Innovation (Youth-IN): A Caribbean Network for Youth Development.

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Energy Company JPS, is reporting 12 more arrests across the island, as it carries out its intensified anti-theft programme.  The arrests took place between February 27 and March 7 in the Corporate Area, St. James and Manchester, as a result of operations in communities in these parishes.  This brings to 56 the number of arrests made across the island for the illegal abstraction of electricity.

Included among the St. James arrests, is an operator of a guest house in the community of Adelphi.  The guest house was found to have a sophisticated device hidden inside the wall of the building to prevent most of the electricity consumption from being detected.

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Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) has made special arrangements at Tax Offices across the island and at its Customer Care Centre to accommodate the usual large number of persons expected to file their Income Tax Returns and make calls on tax day March 15.  

To facilitate smooth operations, additional staff will be available to ensure that forms are properly completed and to direct taxpayers to the correct areas for filing their tax returns. Persons filing a “nil” return will be directed to specially assigned Officers or a special line to submit their return.  Alternately persons may be directed to use the electronic drop boxes available in main Tax Offices to file a “nil” return or if they are paying by cheque.

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BlackBerry today confirmed its commitment to bringing a solution that will separate and secure work and personal data on mobile devices to third party platforms. Secure Work Space for iOS® and Android™ will be managed through BlackBerry® Enterprise Service 10, BlackBerry’s multi-platform enterprise mobility management solution which builds upon more than a decade of enterprise and security expertise and is the most widely deployed mobility solution in enterprises today.

An update for BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 will soon extend BlackBerry security capabilities for data-at-rest and data-in-transit and provide complete separation between work and personal data. The BlackBerry Secure Work Space solution includes secured client applications for email, calendar, contacts, tasks, memos, secure browsing and document editing for each device that is provisioned via BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10.

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