120 Memorable Moments In Jamaica In 2013
What a year 2013 has been! There have been many memorable moments, including a fractious political leadership challenge, a new IMF deal, shocking positive drug tests for some of our elite athletes,...
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Outameni Lawsuit. As pressure mounts on the Portia Simpson Miller administration over the controversial National Housing Trust (NHT) purchase of the property on which the Outameni Experience sits, the...
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What A Disgrace! Senate At Odds Over Minister’s Proposed Role In Granting Urban Renewal Incentives. Unpatriotic and disgrace were just some of the words uttered in the Upper House yesterday to describe...
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Privacy Alarm – Concerns Raised Over Public Disclosure Of Personal Info On Credit Registry. By simply logging on to the Internet and typing your name into a search engine, you may be surprised to find...
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New Law To Allow Government To Sell Delinquent Taxpayers’ Property. It will soon take just a few years of delinquency in the payment of property taxes to cause landowners to lose their property if...
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Cessation Order Lifted On Developer Relocating Sand To St Ann Hotel. Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change Minister Robert Pickersgill yesterday withdrew a cessation order his ministry previously...
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NIR – December 7, 2018
While everyone was tracking the arrival of Buju Banton’s plane, an important economic indicator was released by the Bank of Jamaica – the Net International Reserve number. As at the end November 2018,...
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Tourism Arrivals Gains Holding
New data released from the Jamaica Tourist Board revealed that Long Stay Arrivals were up 3.3% versus October 2017 to reach a new all-time high for the month of 162,552. That is considerable growth...
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Cooper’s Hill Primary Students Learn Innovative Agriculture Techniques
“Farming can be very creative,” said Aika Nakakomi, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) volunteer, as she scooped up a handful of compost and sifted it in a plastic barrel cut vertically in...
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How Many Of These 12 Things Did You Know?
Jamaica is a land full of history and all sorts of interesting things to learn and know. Here are just a dozen of these things: 1. This town clock’s tower was paid for by one of Jamaica’s German...
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Inflation Unchanged For November 2018
The inflation rate for the month of November 2018, registered 0.0% – or completely unchanged. This is remarkably, the second unchanged reading of the year (with May being the first) and even more...
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5 Things to Know About Ms Universe Jamaica 2018
Following in the footsteps of Kaci Fennel and Davina Bennett, this year’s Ms. Universe Jamaica is Emily Sara-Claire Maddison. Here are five things to know: Emily is just 19 years old. She is a...
View ArticleNo Unfair Advantages With Plastic Ban – Senator Samuda
Government Senator Matthew Samuda says there will be no unfair advantages for manufacturers and distributors under the impending January 1, 2019, single-use plastic ban. He was speaking at a ‘Consumer...
View ArticleManagement Of HWT Transport Centre Transferred To Transport Authority
The Management of the Half Way Tree Transport Centre in St Andrew has been transferred from the Port Authority Management Services Limited, a subsidiary of the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ), to the...
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Outreach Outlet
Our aim as an organization is to build a better Jamaica by building those individuals who often have no one to build them. We hope to foster a nation of caregivers with kindness and compassion at the...
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Fuel Prices – How Much Of It Is Taxes?
Hopefully you are enjoying the lowest gas prices since March 15, 2018. This is in part due to the lowest crude oil prices since July 16, 2017. However, we know that Petrojam uses the Weekly Gulf Coast...
View ArticleJamaica Calendar of School Terms and Holidays – Academic Year 2018-2019
Please find below Jamaica’s Ministry of Education calendar of school terms and holidays for the academic year 2018 to 2019. Here you will find opening and closing dates for Jamaican schools, when...
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The Jamaican Startup Ecosystem – Who, What, Where and More
While the Jamaican startup ecosystem is growing fast, many aspiring entrepreneurs don’t know about all of the local resources available. Turns out that lots of people and organizations are doing lots...
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Murder in Jamaica 2018
According to statistics, 2018 saw 1,287 murders, down sharply by almost 22% from the 1,641 murders observed in 2017. This number was even below that of 2016, but slightly ahead of 2015. Even with the...
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Reggae Month 2019 Calendar, Playlists, Trivia and More
In 2008, the Government of Jamaica declared February as ‘Reggae Month’ to highlight the impact of the musical genre on the country’s social, cultural and economic development as “a month of activity...
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