Company Register / 2014 45% open

What data is expected?

List of registered (limited liability) companies. The submissions in this data category does not need to include detailed financial data such as balance sheet etc. To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:

• Name of company
• Unique identifier of the company
• Company address
• Updated at least once a month

What data is available

•   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
•   Is the data available for free? Yes
•   Is the data machine readable? No (n/a)
•   Available in bulk? No
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
•   Publicly available? Yes(as Company Name Search published by Companies Office of Jamaica)
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
•   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

Data is held by the Companies Office of Jamaica. It is possible to manually search for companies by name, which will provide the company number, name, industry and status but no further details. There is no browsable or downloadable dataset.

As per https://www.orcjamaica.com/profile/:

Documents are currently recorded manually in registers and in computer based databases...Customers are at present able to access company names via the computer and within the next 2 years will be able to view documents of all companies and registered trade marks

Reviewer comments

Original submission suggested that the data is machine readable while it was in HTML format. I changed the category to 'No'