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January 5 11:09 AM
A recent study by the history-inspired metal band Sabaton has identified reggae icon Bob Marley as the historical figure most frequently referenced in...
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January 5 11:09 AM
ST MARY, Jamaica — The St Mary police are commending the actions of a taxi operator in Bailey’s Vale, Port Maria, who reported the recovery of ammunit...
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January 5 11:03 AM
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) — The St Vincent and the Grenadines Government says it is monitoring the situation in Venezuela very closely, following th...
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January 5 10:45 AM
TOKYO, Japan — A Japanese sushi entrepreneur paid a record US$3.2 million for a giant bluefin tuna Monday at an annual prestigious new year auction in...
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January 5 10:23 AM
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP) — President Donald Trump's call for Greenland to become part of the United States (US) drew international condemnation on Mo...
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January 5 10:15 AM
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) — A 38-year-old St Vincent man has been sentenced to 11 months in prison for assaulting his 80-year-old grandmother, after...
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January 5 10:14 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Meteorological Service of Jamaica (Met Service) has extended the flash flood watch for low-lying and flood-prone areas of St M...
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January 5 10:03 AM
NEW YORK, United States (CMC) — Two Caribbean-born community activists in New York have strongly denounced the United States (US) military strikes in ...
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November 25, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Reeling from the devastation brought on by the passage of Hurricane Melissa last month, the local economy is expected to register ...
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July 27, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — There were 47 Notices of Breach issued by the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ) in 2024 relating to the broadcast of proble...
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July 26, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s Post and Telecommunications Department (PTD) continues to rack up significant losses in an increasingly digitised enviro...
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July 26, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Total assets held by Jamaica’s commercial banks was $2 592.7 billion at the end of December, 2024. This represents an increase of ...
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July 21, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The average balance held in a deposit account in one of Jamaica’s 11 Deposit-Taking Institutions (DTIs) at December 31, 2024, was ...
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July 13, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A total of 1,018 attorneys were registered on the goAML (anti-money laundering) platform in Jamaica as at December 31, 2024. This ...
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July 13, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The estimated value of property lost as a result of fires in Jamaica in 2024 exceeded $9 billion, an amount similar to 2023. It re...
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May 21, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness has welcomed the recently announced drop in the poverty rate which he says is a result of targeted p...
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May 21, 2025
Jamaica's poverty rate fell to a record 8.2 per cent in 2023, just more than half or 50.8 per cent below the 16.7 per cent at which it stood in 2021. ...
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April 23, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) is encouraging Caribbean nations to adopt a more strategic and coordinated approach to hi...
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April 1, 2025
Minister of Finance Fayval Williams has cited that the assessment of GDP growth by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), which the institute ...
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February 19, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has indicated that it is closely monitoring policy measures in the United States (US) and...
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February 19, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Even as the local economy went on to register its second consecutive quarter of contraction, falling 1.8 per cent between October ...
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February 16, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica--Re-igniting civic pride and love and appreciation for country as tools for national development, were the focus of a Valentine’s Da...
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…all other industries contract as economic gains trampled by Beryl in July-Sept quarter
November 25, 2024
The finance and insurance industry was the only one to have escaped contraction during the July to September quarter after growth in revenues for most...
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January 5, 2026
A recent study by the history-inspired metal band Sabaton has identified reggae icon Bob Marley as the historical figure most frequently referenced in...
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January 5, 2026
ST MARY, Jamaica — The St Mary police are commending the actions of a taxi operator in Bailey’s Vale, Port Maria, who reported the recovery of ammunit...
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January 5, 2026
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) — The St Vincent and the Grenadines Government says it is monitoring the situation in Venezuela very closely, following th...
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January 5, 2026
TOKYO, Japan — A Japanese sushi entrepreneur paid a record US$3.2 million for a giant bluefin tuna Monday at an annual prestigious new year auction in...
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January 5, 2026
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP) — President Donald Trump's call for Greenland to become part of the United States (US) drew international condemnation on Mo...
