The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has struck a deal regarding the sharing regulatory intelligence with its regional counterparts.
The OUR, Jamaica’s utilities regulator, recently entered into a resource sharing partnership with other regional regulators to increase the use and access to collections of regulatory materials across the region.
The accord was cemented during a virtual symbolic signing among the OUR, US Virgin Islands Public Services Commission, National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Dominica and Public Utilities Regulatory Commission of Grenada.
AGREEMENT SIGNED BY REGULATORS
The OUR’s deal with its regional counterpart will aid these utilities regulatory agencies with research and intelligence information on pressing regulatory matters. It will also provide a blueprint into Jamaica’s handling of regulatory matters within its jurisdiction and evidence gathered in making determination on regulator matters.
The arrangement was signed by OUR Director General Ansord Hewitt; Donald Cole, executive director of the US Virgin Islands Public Services Commission; Craig Nesty, executive director of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Dominica and George Matthew, acting CEO of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission in Grenada.
The OUR’s Information Centre, which spearheaded this effort, is the only specialised library of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean and is accessible to the public.
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