Jamaica to provide internet access in its poor communities.(tech briefs)(Brief Article)

KINGSTON, JAMAICA

Jamaica's Commerce and Technology Minister Phillip Paulwell announced in late August a plan to provide free Internet access in poor communities across the island, according to news reports.

The "e-Jamaica" initiative will establish 60 Internet centers across the country by 2010. mostly in most offices, according to Paulwell. The program is directed at communities "that continue to operate on the …