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April 12 11:49 AM
The sun rose over Kingston like it knew this was no ordinary Sunday. It was Road March day—the grand finale of the 2026 carnival season—and from as ea...
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April 12 11:06 AM
Hannah Sheree, pageant director for the Miss Universe Jamaica Westmoreland competition, says she is pleased with the lineup of 18 finalists who will b...
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April 12 09:53 AM
ST MARY, Jamaica — A 35 year-old groundsman was granted bail in the sum of $650,000 when he appeared in the St Mary parish court on April 7 after he ...
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April 12 09:47 AM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered a United States (US) naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in response to ...
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April 12 08:07 AM
A heavy downpour threatened to put a damper on the hard fete agenda soca lovers had in mind for Rytz on Thursday, but by nightfall, the event had rewr...
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April 12 07:37 AM
Communication expert Carolyn Rose Miller is taking proactive steps to address what she describes as a troubling pattern in professional and personal r...
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NGO head, PAJ and others hold conflicting views on withholding names of accused
April 12 12:30 AM
Sex crime silence: Yes or no?
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April 12 12:28 AM
Coalition firm in rejection of close-in-age sex pass
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February 16, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has launched the Vision 2030 Jamaica ‘Love Jamaica’ National Essay Competition, under the...
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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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April 12, 2026
The sun rose over Kingston like it knew this was no ordinary Sunday. It was Road March day—the grand finale of the 2026 carnival season—and from as ea...
Entertainment, ...
April 12, 2026
Hannah Sheree, pageant director for the Miss Universe Jamaica Westmoreland competition, says she is pleased with the lineup of 18 finalists who will b...
Latest News, ...
April 12, 2026
ST MARY, Jamaica — A 35 year-old groundsman was granted bail in the sum of $650,000 when he appeared in the St Mary parish court on April 7 after he ...
International News, ...
April 12, 2026
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered a United States (US) naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in response to ...
Entertainment, ...
April 12, 2026
A heavy downpour threatened to put a damper on the hard fete agenda soca lovers had in mind for Rytz on Thursday, but by nightfall, the event had rewr...
