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Culture Minister Olivia Grange.
Published 20 hours ago by Albert Ferguson

Jamaica rejects St Kitts’ claim of first legal recognition of Rastafari

WESTERN BUREAU: The Government of Jamaica has pushed back against claims that St Kitts and Nevis is the first Caribbean nation to recognise Rastafarianism in law, insisting that Jamaica has long…
Senior Deputy Governor, Bank of Jamaica, Dr Wayne Robinson, responds to questions during an interview with ]IS News on April 1.
Published 2 hours ago

BOJ managing foreign exchange market conditions

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is actively managing foreign exchange market conditions, to ensure that movements in the foreign exchange rate do not result in a significant increase in inflation. …
Published 2 hours ago

Egg sector recovering after Melissa, no import waiver, says Agriculture Ministry

The Ministry of Agriculture is reporting that the egg production sector is demonstrating recovery following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa. The Ministry is also underscoring that there…
The St Catherine Parish Court in Spanish Town.
Published 1 hour ago

Update | Mandela cocaine bust accused further remanded due to incomplete case file

The absence of a forensic certificate from the case file of two men held allegedly with a quantity of cocaine along a section of the Mandela Highway in St Catherine last month resulted in them being…
Jamaica Teachers' Association [JTA] President Mark Malabver addressing the JTA's 2026 Education Conference at the Princess Grand Hotel in Hanover, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026.
Published 1 hour ago

JTA reiterates call for Melissa sheterees to be relocated, bemoans inconvenience to schools

Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Mark Malabver has hit back at recent remarks by Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie concerning the sheltering of residents at schools…
Published 20 hours ago by Livern Barrett

Two decades later, disbarred attorney’s complaint against panel member fails

A former attorney has lost his bid to pursue a conflict-of-interest complaint against a member of the disciplinary panel that ruled over 20 years ago that he should be struck off the list of lawyers…
PAC Chairman Julian Robinson.
Published 20 hours ago by Edmond Campbell

PAC slams ‘madness’ as UHWI pays big for delayed, rejected reports

The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) paid Strategic Alignment Limited US$92,000 (J$14.5 million) to create a strategic transformation plan, but rejected the draft without explaining why…
From left: Half Moon Eclipse Luxury Resort’s Tashane Castillo, wedding sales manager; Sharon Logan, director of sales; Shernette Crichton, newly appointed managing director, Half Moon Resort; and Latoya Murray, account manager, group wedding sales, celeb
Updated 13 hours ago by Janet Silvera

From trainee to trailblazer

WESTERN BUREAU: For 32 years, Shernette Crichton walked the corridors of Half Moon not as a spectator of its legacy, but as a student of it; quietly studying, steadily rising, and preparing for a…
Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis.
Updated 9 hours ago

Auditor general flags contract splintering at UHWI

Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has warned that some procurement heads are improperly splitting government contracts to avoid rules designed to prevent that practice. In a January performance…