Jamaica, Like Haiti, Can Make Tablet Computers......Jamaica can "very easily" follow Haiti's lead, Pengelley said. "We certainly have the skills and the capabilities here."

If Jamaica looks to Haiti, it, too, could produce high-tech tablet computers for the local and export markets, according to Brian Pengelley, president of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA).

The Iron Market in Port-au-Prince was
 decimated by a 2008 fire and the
 January 12, 2010 earthquake. - File

He was responding to a report by the Associated Press last weekend that two rival companies in Haiti had started to produce tablets for the local and export market in that country.

Jamaica's nearest neighbour to the east is still recovering from its devastating earthquake of 2010, but it is now seeing its small manufacturing sector move up the value chain from simple products such as T-shirts to one of the world's most technologically advanced consumer products.

Jamaica can "very easily" follow Haiti's lead, Pengelley said. "We certainly have the skills and the capabilities here." read more