FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, particularly those aligned to the Jamaica Bankers' Association (JBA), have pooled human and financial resources in an all-out effort to smash an emerging debit-card scam that is threatening the security confidence of the electronic banking system in Jamaica. For the fir...

PHILIPSBURG - Leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) experts from the region and across the world will be converging on the tiny Caribbean nation of St Maarten for an intensive week of technology meetings. The Westin St. Maarten Dawn Beach Resort & Spa will be the venue for th...

St. George’s, July 27, 2010 (GIS) – Local and regional broadcasters and newspaper editors are meeting in Grenada to discuss the free movement of skilled persons and other issues related to the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) This week’s workshop is organised by the Cari...

Kingston, Jamaica, July 20, 2010 – The Jamaica government is focusing on the rollout of a broadband backbone in the short-term to ensure adequate connectivity throughout the island. Minister with Responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Daryl Vaz, says the mov...

WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, CMC – There is an urgent need for investment in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to help bolster the prospects for Caribbean economies, says the chief executive officer of the Central Bank of the Netherlands Antilles. “Today more than ever, technolo...

PORT OF PRINCE - A two-day roundtable discussion on the best way forward for the reconstruction of Haiti’s information and communication technology (ICT) sector is expected to see a framework put in place that is capable of meeting the current challenges. Yesterday, representatives from vari...

UNIVERSITY of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine, campus Principal Clem Sankat, unveiled a US$70 laptop computer that might fulfil the Government’s promise of a laptop to each Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exam pupil. Sankat caused a stir as he unveiled the device measuring about si...

Organized by the UNESCO Office in Brasilia, the Regional Office of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO Santiago) and the Secretariat of Distance Education of the Ministry of Education of Brazil, the international conference "The impact of ICT education, analyzed and discussed the t...

BRADES, Montserrat -- More than 15 senior members of staff from various government departments in Montserrat began a two-day workshop on developing an E-Government strategy during last month. The workshop comes on the heels of the successful ICT Roadshow which highlighted the necessity for the isl...

BRADES, Montserrat -- Daniel Joseph of Lavabits, a software development firm on Montserrat was one of the featured presenters at the Caribbean ICT Roadshow BVI, which began on Tortola on Sunday, 16 May. Joseph is part of a trio of young nationals who began the company last December to develop soft...