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Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Mark Malabver addressing the JTA’s 2026 Education Conference in Hanover on Tuesday.
Updated 16 hours ago

JTA reiterates call for Melissa shelterees 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…
The St Catherine Parish Court in Spanish Town.
Published 19 hours 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…
Published 20 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…
Senior Deputy Governor, Bank of Jamaica, Dr Wayne Robinson, responds to questions during an interview with ]IS News on April 1.
Published 20 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. …
Kanye West, who changed his name to Ye in 2021.
Published 20 hours ago

Wireless Festival cancelled after UK bars rapper Ye

LONDON (AP): The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was barred Tuesday from entering the UK, where he was scheduled to headline the Wireless Festival in July, after a backlash over Ye's history…
Women attend a rally calling for the end of the US blockade against the island nation in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 7, 2026.
Published 22 hours ago

Hundreds of Cuban women rally against US energy blockade as crisis deepens

HAVANA (AP) — Hundreds of Cuban women gathered Tuesday in Havana to decry a US energy embargo and other measures imposed by US President Donald Trump that are strangling the Caribbean island. The…
The St Catherine Parish Court. - File photo.
April 7, 2026

$500,000 bail for farmer accused of machete attack in goats trespass row

A St Catherine farmer who allegedly chopped another man with a machete during a reported dispute over goats that trespassed onto his farm, has been granted $500,000 bail. The accused, 45-year-old…
Yanique Taylor Wellington, deputy commissioner at INDECOM.
April 7, 2026

INDECOM flags ‘urgent need for transparency’ in police operations after 11 killed over four days

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has raised “grave and escalating concern” over Easter weekend fatal shootings, citing 11 deaths over the period. It also renewed concerns about…
Francesca Tavares, Attorney-at-Law
April 7, 2026

Francesca Tavares | The slave trades the UN forgot

The United Nations’ recent resolution designating the Transatlantic Slave Trade as the “greatest historical evil” is a troubling exercise in historiographical reductionism – one that prioritises…