Williams has also asked the police and the Major Organized Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency to provide whatever information is required for the probe. JAMAICA’S HOUSE PASSES NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION ACT Grace McLean, acting permanent secretary, left on leave after a report from the auditor general indicated fiduciary failings around the JCTE payments. Over two years after a court struck down Jamaica’s National Identification and Registration (NIDS) Act, it was passed by the House of Representatives with 14 amendments. Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness noted that the NIDS will position Jamaica among the world’s strongest digital economies. Modern digital economies rely on strong digital identities that focus on privacy rights and security of citizens, who favor the creation of strong and transparent identification systems. Holness said the government is creating the Information Commissioner’s Office and the Data Protection Act and the National Identification and Registration Inspectorate to provide independent oversight under NIDS. JAMAICA PRIME MINISTER ANDREW HOLNESS REGISTRATION Holness added that this is an age in which every transaction requires identification and pointed to the face that 35,000 Jamaicans did not collect their COVID-19 grants in 2020 because they lacked legal ID. NEW ENERGY INITIATIVE FROM DEVELOPMENT BANK TO BENEFIT CARIBBEAN NATIONSĪ new financing instrument will be created by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to expand energy access, support transition in the energy sector, and protect the climate of countries in the Caribbean region and Latin America. JAMAICA PRIME MINISTER ANDREW HOLNESS REGISTRATION.
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