SPEED Initiative Established to Ease Doing Business

Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, outlines strategic tax reforms during the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Investments and Capital Markets Conference at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday (January 21). (Yhomo Hutchinson/JIS)

The government has established a new taskforce to improve the ease of doing business in the country.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced the Streaming Processes for Efficiency and Economic Development, SPEED, initiative at the Jamaica Stock Exchange Regional Investments and Capital Markets Conference in Kingston on Tuesday. 

He says it will be launched in February. 

The SPEED taskforce forms part of the ASPIRE Jamaica growth policy announced in November.

Prime Minister Holness says the mechanism will ensure the country’s business environment meets world-class standards.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness.