INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Bank (IDB) Chief of Operations, Jamaica, Karisa Ribeiro, says the Boosting Innovation, Growth and Entrepreneurship Ecosystems (BIGEE) Programme remains instrumental in driving the expansion of several micro, small and...
AS COSTS rise, it is expected that more Jamaicans will become more careful about how they spend, stretching every dollar and cutting back on expenses as a necessity. Thrift, the practice of careful money management and avoiding waste, is employed...
THE GOVERNMENT remains steadfast in its thrust to remove all obstacles to growth and make Jamaica the most business- and investor-friendly country in the region. “We are transforming the business environment, cutting red tape, streamlining...
Welcome to part three of our four-part educational series on bitcoin. If you haven’t read part one or two, it would be advisable to read them first so part three won’t seem like gobbledegook. Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous person or team that...
The following is the first in a three-part series on the life of Olaudah Equiano, a former enslaved African who was credited with helping in the abolition of slavery. THERE WERE many reasons why slavery was abolished at the time it did. White...
NEW YORK (AP) — A shooting at a midtown Manhattan office building on Monday left at least five people dead, including an off-duty New York City police officer, sources told the The Associated Press. The suspect was identified as Shane Tamura, of...
A taxi operator and a delivery man in Westmoreland have been charged by the police for allegedly breaking into an establishment in Frome and loading a truck with metal pipes. Charged with simple larceny and malicious destruction of property are...
The police in Manchester have charged a woman who borrowed a car and later allegedly stole the vehicle’s documents from the owner’s home and registered it in her own name. Thirty-three-year-old businesswoman Reva Powell, otherwise known as ‘...
P ORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government said Monday it plans to send 400 police officers to Brazil next month for training as gang violence overwhelms the troubled Caribbean country. Currently, Haiti only has about 10,000 police officers...
Claiming that the Opposition Spokesperson on Health, Dr Alfred Dawes, is being disingenuous in his comments about the health sector being in crisis, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has dismissed the statement as untrue....
African institutions are now driving billions in investment into the Caribbean, subtly shifting the axis of influence from the West and China. These investments come as the United States, the world’s largest economy, pivots inward. In the...
Conjoined twins, Azaria and Azora Elson, have departed Jamaica for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where they are scheduled to undergo life-changing separation surgery. The 20-month-old toddlers, their mother, Iesha McMurray, and a team of medical...
A woman who was employed as a supervisor at a business in Portmore, St Catherine, has been charged with embezzlement over the alleged theft of more than $1.3 million. She is 28-year-old Zasha McLeod of a St Andrew address, who was taken into...
LONDON (AP) — Chinese online retailer Temu was accused by European Union watchdogs on Monday of failing to prevent the sale of illegal products on its platform. The preliminary findings follow an investigation opened last year under the bloc’s...
Residents of Stewart Town and Jackson Town in Trelawny are appealing to the National Water Commission (NWC) for water, saying their pipes have been dry for months. According to Sharon Campbell of Stewart Town, it has been four months since...
Portland West Member of Parliament, Daryl Vaz, has reiterated that he and his wife, Ann-Marie, who is the MP for Portland East, will hold on to their seats for the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the upcoming general elections, arguing that...
The St Ann police are investigating the murder of a 21-year-old man in the parish on Sunday night. He is Deandreu Aarons, otherwise called 'Bigga', unemployed, of Corn Piece Street, Exchange district, St Ann. Reports are that about 10:27 p.m...
An increase in rainfall and thunderstorm activity is expected across the island today and tomorrow, the Meteorological Service of Jamaica has advised. It says there is a trough across Jamaica in addition to a pair of tropical waves across the...
Two teenagers were killed in separate motor vehicle crashes hours apart in Hanover on Sunday, a police report has revealed. Their names have not been released. A total of 227 people have died on Jamaica’s roadways since January 1 this year, a...
The JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the JMMB Group, supported the participation of schools with storytelling clubs in A Calabash to Save the World, a Child Month 2025 production by Ntukuma, The Storytelling Foundation of...
From Lagos to Cape Town, Santiago to Seoul, people want to be cool. “Cool” is a word we hear everywhere – in music, in fashion, on social media. We use it to describe certain types of people. But, what exactly makes someone cool? Is it just about...
Caribbean Cement Company Limited has invested $2.6 million in book vouchers as part of its annual back-to-school programme, providing vital support to 120 families ahead of the upcoming academic year. The initiative was held on July 24 aboard the...
Renowned motivational speaker and senior pastor of the Moneague District of Seventh-day Adventist Churches in St Ann, Jermaine Johnson, will serve as the keynote speaker at the 21st anniversary fundraising banquet of the Educational Foundation for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Businessman Christopher Issa has announced that S Foods Supermarket, located on Worthington Avenue in the Corporate Area, will be leased to Afresh Marketplace Limited, a Montego Bay-based food retail group, effective August 7. The...
Four men and a boy from Hanover have been charged in connection with the alleged robbery of a motorcycle earlier this month. They are Zayeshaun Donalds and Kimmarny 'EJ' Bernard, both 19, and 17-year-old boy, all of Sandy Bay addresses in the...
A St Catherine couple has been charged in connection with the alleged theft of over $2 million from a business establishment in Old Harbour, where the wife served as branch manager. Police say the woman admitted to diverting the funds to assist...
Tensions are flaring in several constituencies across Jamaica as members of the two major political parties trade accusations of political sabotage, violence, and destruction of campaign paraphernalia. The events are raising fresh concerns about...
The family of Don Wehby, former Group CEO of GraceKennedy Limited, has expressed deep gratitude for the outpouring of support following his death on Saturday. “With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of our beloved Don, who died peacefully on...
The St Elizabeth police are investigating the death of a farmer whose body was found pinned beneath a fallen tree limb in Balaclava on Saturday. He has been identified as 32-year-old Ricaldo Samuels of New Town district in the parish. Passersby...
One man is dead and two others injured following a shooting in Galina, St Mary, early Sunday morning. The deceased has been identified as 49-year-old Rudolph Beckford, a truck driver of a Galina address. A 35-year-old bartender and a 52-year-old...
A St Catherine man who was stabbed on Friday by another man with whom he reportedly had a dispute has died He has been identified as Damion Lawrence, otherwise called 'Trainer', of a Portmore address. Reports are that about 6:15 p.m., Lawrence...
The Israeli military on Sunday began a limited pause in fighting in three populated areas of Gaza as concerns grow over surging hunger. Israel is also facing international criticism over its conduct in the 21-month war. The military said the “...
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding on Sunday led national tributes to Don Wehby, the former GraceKennedy Group Chief Executive Officer, hailing him as a visionary leader whose legacy straddles the worlds of...
Don Wehby, a towering figure in corporate Jamaica and the former Group Chief Executive Officer of GraceKennedy Limited, has died. He was 62. Wehby, who retired from the food and finance conglomerate in February, had been ailing. During his tenure...
Gary Blair Contributor IN A society that has become increasingly permissive and digitally driven, conversations around sexual abstinence before marriage are often dismissed as outdated, biased, or overly religious. However, with the rise of...
