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Active State-owned Defunct; Name Industry Sector Headquarters Founded Notes Air Jamaica: Consumer services Airline Kingston: 1968 Airline, defunct 2015 Alpart: Basic materials Aluminum Nain: 1969 Aluminum Bank of Jamaica: Financials Banks Kingston: 1961 Central bank Beaches Resorts: Consumer services Hotels Ocho Rios: 1997 Hotels
Highway 2000 is a highway system in Jamaica connecting Kingston, with Ocho Rios and a planned connection to Montego Bay, passing through the parishes of St. Catherine, Saint Ann, Clarendon and proposed sections through St. James, Saint Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Hanover. The National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC) is the state ...
In the late 1980s, the government began to reform the state-owned enterprise, and during the 1990s and 2000s, many mid-sized and small sized state-owned enterprises were privatized and went public. There are a number of different corporate forms which result in a mixture of public and private capital.
The United States federal government chartered and owned corporations operate to provide public services. Unlike government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or independent commissions, such as the Federal Communications Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and others, they have a separate legal personality from the federal government.
A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity which is established and/or owned by a national or state/provincial government, by an executive order or an act of legislation, in order to earn profit for the government, control monopoly of the private sector over means of production, provide commodities to citizens at a lower price, implement government policies, and/or to deliver products ...
JALGO. The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO) is a 5,000-member public sector trade union in Jamaica which represents workers in local and national government, governmental corporations, quasi-government bodies and other agencies created by statute. Its members are non-supervisory personnel and include fire-fighters with ...
Website. www.portjam.com. The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) is an agency of the Ministry of Transport and Mining responsible for the: [1] regulation and development of Jamaica's ports and shipping industry. safety of all vessels navigating the ports of entry. regulation of tariffs on goods passing through the public wharves.
Fayval Williams was the chairman of one of Jamaica's leading media entity Nationwide News Network. She also hosted a daily financial programme on the radio station called Global Markets. On her entry into representational politics, she divested her interest in the media house. [ 68 ]