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Since its introduction to the electronic payment landscape in December 2021, Lynk, Jamaica’s first digital wallet, has recorded more than $500 million in transactions on the platform.

The Lynk App presently provides an opportunity for individuals, small and medium businesses to be able to pay and receive payments using a smartphone.

Chief Growth Officer at Lynk, Denise Williams, said Lynk allows you to take the money that is in your physical wallet and put it on your phone in an App, so that you can do business using your phone, instead of cash, debit and credit cards.

“It is an evolving App that is on a journey to becoming a super App that is relevant to the Jamaican context,” Williams argued.

Lynk is a payment platform that is used to exchange money, pay for goods and services. It can also be used to top up mobile phones and pay utility bills.

Meanwhile, Chief Product Officer, Lynk, John Matthew Sinclair, said the main objective of Lynk is to provide financial inclusion for all Jamaicans and to create easy access to the digital platform.

He described the registration process as easy. Interested individuals must have a smartphone. For registration, they will need a mobile number, an email address and a valid Jamaican ID (driver’s licence, passport, voters’ registration, Tax Registration Number).

Once your registration is validated you have access to more than 70 billers, you can send money and top up your mobile any time of the day.

Come October 2022, as Lynk continues to evolve and revolutionise, customers will have access to merchants online. The Merchant Platform will be launched, and this will allow small to large merchants to interact with their customers wherever they are online. By year end (December), Lynk will also launch a Remittance platform.

Lynx is regulated by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ). Currently, National Commercial Bank offers JAM-DEX through LYNK(R), its digital wallet.

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One hundred women are set to benefit from Massy Group Guyana’s $1.5 M Women’s Grocery Voucher Programme dubbed “SAFE – Stop Abuse, Stay Empowered” which was launched today at the Massy Distribution headquarters at Montrose on the East Coast of Demerara

Under this initiative, which is being done in collaboration with the Human Services and Social Security Ministry, each woman will receive a grocery voucher value $15,000. The vouchers are redeemable at any of the five Massy Stores located at Providence, Plantation Turkeyen, Montrose, Vreed-en-Hoop and Ruimveldt.

The project aims to assist women who are in abusive situations, and the Human Services Ministry will screen and identify the 100 recipients.

Snr. Vice President of the Group, Navindra Thakur spoke of the group’s Corporate Social Responsibility projects over the years with specifics to women empowerment and committed to the Group continuing the SAFE Grocery voucher programme in the years ahead.

Meanwhile, Minister Dr Vindhya Persaud said, “I am very happy to have this collaboration with Massy as it ensures that an initiative that I have long wanted to happen really manifest in the sense that we are able to provide survivors of domestic violence with the wherewithal to provide for themselves, with our support, when they are leaving their homes.”

Financial abuse occurs in almost every domestic abuse situation and because of this, many people in such situations cannot provide for themselves thus they find it difficult to leave.

The minister said Massy’s financial contribution will help survivors to procure basic needs when they leave.

“I want to thank Massy for coming on board as the first company in this invaluable step,” she said, while adding that the ministry will continue to seek more support for those affected by domestic violence.

Notably, the Women’s Grocery Voucher Initiative is just one part of Massy’s 2022 activities to support its staff and the wider community as it relates to mental health well-being and professional life, suicide prevention and domestic violence.

Assistant Vice President and Head of the Group’s Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Steering Committee, Christpen Bobb-Semple shared that the objectives of the SAFE grocery voucher programme are twofold.

First it seeks to empower women by bringing immediate relief so that they do not have to second guess and subject themselves to abusive and at-risk situations.

Secondly, the programme will provide counselling to men to engender positive coping behaviours. He also shared some of the activities the Group has embarked upon for 2022.

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El presidente del Comité de Recursos Naturales, Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), solicitó el viernes acción al gobierno de Puerto Rico en relación al contrato de LUMA Energy y anunció que supervisará desde el Congreso este asunto.

“El pueblo de Puerto Rico no debe enfrentarse a apagones prolongados de energía e incertidumbre que lo obligue a escenarios potencialmente peligrosos. La situación con el sistema eléctrico poco confiable de Puerto Rico es inaceptable”, dijo Grijalva en declaraciones escritas.

“El gobierno de Puerto Rico debe responsabilizar a LUMA para garantizar que los residentes de Puerto Rico reciban el servicio de energía que necesitan. El Comité de Recursos Naturales está monitoreando la situación y continuará supervisando este tema”, añadió.

Explicó que el Comité de Recursos Naturales llevará a cabo una audiencia de comité completo en septiembre para evaluar la implementación de PROMESA, que también abordará el contrato LUMA defendido por la Junta de Control Fiscal. Se anunciarán más detalles en los próximos días.

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La Administración del presidente estadounidense Joe Biden puede anunciar tan pronto como el viernes un nuevo paquete de ayuda militar a Ucrania, por un valor de 800 millones de dólares, comentaron el jueves tres fuentes familiarizadas con el asunto a Reuters.

Sin embargo, el valor del paquete y la fecha de su anuncio pueden cambiar, advirtieron los informantes que hablaron bajo condición de anonimato. Por su parte, la Casa Blanca se ha negado a comentar al respecto.

Se espera que Biden autorizará la asistencia usando el llamado ‘Presidential Drawdown Authority‘, el mecanismo que permite transferir armas desde las reservas de EE.UU. hacia otro país, para cooperar en una situación de emergencia. La ayuda de este tipo puede comenzar a llegar a los pocos días, o incluso horas, después de su aprobación.

Desde agosto de 2021, EE.UU. ya ha enviado 18 paquetes de ayuda militar a Ucrania, estimados en 7.200 millones de dólares, cuyo suministros se intensificaron tras el inicio de la operación militar especial rusa. El último paquete fue anunciado el 8 de agosto y proporcionaba una “cantidad significativa” de municiones, armas y equipo adicionales, por un valor de 1.000 millones de dólares.

Nota original de RT Español.

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