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Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport [ 1] Jamaica Cultural Development Commission. Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation. Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission. The Institute of Jamaica. Jamaica National Heritage Trust. National Library of Jamaica. Sports Development Foundation. Ministry of Education, Youth and Information[ 2]
Bess Myerson was appointed by Mayor John Lindsay as the first commissioner of the Department for Consumer Affairs in 1969. [2] [3] In 2019, the agency changed its name to the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, expanding its role to protect workplace safety, paid sick leave laws, and freelancer protection. [4]
The Office of the Public Defender was created in 2000 by the Public Defender Act 1999, replacing the Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman of Jamaica which had existed since 1978. The Public Defender (currently Earl Witter) has the typical ombudsman function of investigating and remedying maladministration, with additional jurisdiction to ...
The Financial Services Commission ( FSC) is the Jamaican unified financial regulatory authority. It was founded in the year 2001 under the Financial Services Commission Act of 2001. The FSC has the responsibility of regulating and supervising any of the country's institutions that engage in non-deposit-taking financial services in relation to ...
The Iowa Attorney General's Office is asking the state's federal lawmakers to help protect Iowa youths from alleged abuse at Jamaican boarding school Iowa AG's office seeks US help for 4 children ...
The United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection (UNGCP) relate to consumer protection goals. The statement supplied is that the guidelines are "a valuable set of principles for setting out the main characteristics of effective consumer protection legislation, enforcement institutions and redress systems and for assisting interested Member States in formulating and enforcing domestic and ...
Consumer protection is the practice of safeguarding buyers of goods and services, and the public, against unfair practices in the marketplace. Consumer protection measures are often established by law. Such laws are intended to prevent businesses from engaging in fraud or specified unfair practices to gain an advantage over competitors or to ...
Jamaica’s official police force whose mission under the Ministry of National Security is ‘to serve protect and reassure with courtesy, integrity and respect for the rights of all’. [6] It roles include assisting in the detection and prevention of crime, investigating alleged crimes, protecting life and property, and enforcing all criminal ...