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June 28, 2026
Garth Rattray | June is also road safety awareness month
We need to confront the fatal five traffic offences – speeding, distracted driving, driving while impaired, not wearing a seatbelt, and careless and inconsiderate driving. The authorities are carrying…
June 28, 2026
Byron Blake | Hurricane and heat wave - What a message for CARICOM conference?
Europe has been experiencing a record heatwave in intensity, duration, and geographic coverage in June, not July or August. The Caribbean, specifically Jamaica, was struck by the strongest Atlantic…
June 28, 2026
Editorial | Vale Royal and red lines
The public controversy over Jamaica's decision to accept third country nationals being thrown out of the United States will soon dissipate. Which is what the government expects and is banking…
June 28, 2026
Densil Williams | Unravelling growth: The efficiency agenda
Prime Minister Holness is on to something with his thesis of Efficiency as a Resource. Jamaica’s low and anaemic economic growth for the better part of 64 years since independence left us searching…
June 28, 2026
by Janet Silvera
JHTA warns poor infrastructure threatens tourism growth
WESTERN BUREAU:
Jamaica risks losing its competitive edge unless the Government accelerates investment in roads, drainage, water systems and other infrastructure across the island’s resort towns,…
June 28, 2026
by Janet Silvera
PM to meet with tourism body over proposed GCT increase
WESTERN BUREAU:
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is to meet leaders of the tourism industry next week after the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) intensified its opposition to the…
June 28, 2026
by Corey Robinson
‘Truth is the beacon’ - AI era could make broadcasters more valuable, conference told
Artificial intelligence (AI) presents broadcasters with their greatest opportunity in decades to reaffirm themselves as society's most trusted source of information, rather than a threat to their…
June 28, 2026
by Albert Ferguson
Clergy decry hospital suffering
WESTERN BUREAU
Declaring that "many of our people are dying" because of a lack of medical attention,” Reverend Glendon Powell, the chairman of the St James Ministers Fraternal, is taking…
June 28, 2026
From ruin to recovery - Global aid mobilises after deadly Venezuela quakes
The CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean has launched a Venezuela Recovery and Reconstruction Fund with an initial contribution of US$1 million, as governments, humanitarian…