- O-Wrap: Patrick Powell guilty… JTA warns Gov't… PM orders phone bill probe … Windies Women beat Pakistan 6:38 pm
- Opioid maker fined US$35m over shipments that fed addiction crisis 8:17 pm
- Windies' Hope, Nurse make gains in ODI rankings 7:23 pm
- $40m to clean drains in Kingston and St Andrew – mayor 7:20 pm
- Canadian woman gets 3 years, fined $1.85m on cocaine charges 8:19 pm
- No cost for patrons to attend Emancipation Jubilee – Grange 7:10 pm
Editorial
Lobbying against FATCA on Capitol Hill
The countries of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) are facing a major challenge of executing international payments as foreign banks reduce and/or eliminate correspondent banking services to some financial institutions in this region. Read More
Good reasons to smile
Recent days have been pretty good for Jamaican cricket and football. Read More
Playing political football with the NHT
The debate about whether any Government should be dipping into the coffers of the State-run National Housing Trust (NHT) is, foolishly, occurring in a vacuum. Read More
Government response to rumours too lackadaisical
It is one of the stranger mysteries of life that human beings delight so much in rumour-mongering, and of late the Jamaican rumour mill has been in constant overdrive, fanned by social media which has an insatiable appetite for it. Read More
That task of restoring participatory democracy to the PNP
We note with interest Dr Peter Phillips’s insistence that there was no special deal as prelude to the stepping down of Mrs Portia Simpson Miller as president of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP). Read More
FATCA hurting Caribbean: Revoke it, Mr Trump
The United States Government passed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) in 2010 and has been implementing it vigorously. Read More
Reggae Boyz’ display against USA gives reason for hope
Even after the most cruel of setbacks life goes on, and it is natural human instinct to make the very best of it. Read More
Scratching the surface on crime
Quite frankly, there was no need for the Government and the police to hold a press conference to tell us that they were now going to insist that the country’s laws are enforced. Read More
Caricom Science Award to the ‘diabetes professor’ is well deserved
The 2017 Caribbean Community (Caricom) Science Award could not have gone to a more deserving person than Professor Dalip Ragoobirsingh, the director of The University of the West Indies (UWI) Diabetes Education Programme at Mona, Jamaica. Read More
Thank you, Mrs Portia Simpson Miller
It's obvious that Mrs Portia Simpson Miller badly miscalculated by choosing to stay on as president of the People’s National Party (PNP) following the party’s loss at the polls last February. Read More
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