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Downtown Orlando will be surrounded by security checkpoints starting Friday night.

Orlando city officials say, for now, the controlled entry points will be in effect on Friday and Saturday nights.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says some of the data collected through the JAMCOVID-19 app will not be destroyed until after the pandemic.  However, details surrounding the specific data to be kept were not disclosed by Holness at a press conference held on Sunday. A criminal investigation is ongoing into security vulnerabilities surrounding the app, which was created by the Amber Group, aimed at managing the country's Controlled Entry Programme. "As it relates to the situation with vulnerabilities of the JAMCOVID site, you will recall in previous press conferences we gave assurances that a...

The Government may be forced to accelerate plans to migrate the JAMCOVID-19 database as allegations emerged Thursday night that there was a third breach of the app. American journalist Zack Whittaker of TechCrunch revealed that he had informed Amber Group (creator of the app) of a third JAMCOVID security lapse involving more than 500,000 exposed quarantine orders for travellers to Jamaica. On Thursday, the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) informed that while the investigation into the application continues, the government was accelerating plans that were already underway to migrate the JA...

The Government has initiated a criminal investigation into an apparent breach of the JAMCOVID application. This was announced in a statement issued by the Ministry of National Security Thursday evening and came mere hours after the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) had called for a proper probe into the matter. “When a security vulnerability is identified in respect of a government system, the government has a duty to investigate and rectify it,” the statement said. It added that: “Under Jamaican law, we also have a duty to ensure that any unauthorised access to data is investi...