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6 Things You Need To Know Today – April 1, 2014

Operators Want More Time Before Retake Of Routes. The Joint Caucus of Transport Operators (JCTO) has indicated it remains unprepared to meet today’s Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) deadline for...

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6 Things You Need To Know Today – April 17, 2014

Phillips’ Budget Targets. Taxpayers will today listen keenly to hear whether Finance and Planning Minister Dr Peter Phillips’ earlier pronouncement that the Govern-ment has no plans to impose new taxes...

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6 Things You Need To Know Today – June 4, 2014

Don’t Count Hub Chickens Before They Are Hatched, Jamaica Told. It may be a case of counting the chickens before they are hatched as it relates to countries around the region, including Jamaica, that...

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6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 2, 2014

Death Squad Holes: DPP To Reassess Clarendon Police Murder Cases. The country’s top prosecutor has raised questions about the strength of all but two of the 11 alleged police ‘death squad’ cases and...

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6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 3, 2014

External Pressure – Int’l Partners Keep Close Watch On ‘Death Squad’ Probe; US Assistance To JCF Under Review. Hit hard by the severity of pressures being applied by significant international partners,...

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6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 7, 2014

Jamaican Farmer Produces Turmeric Capsules. A local farmer has gone a step further than the Ministry Of Agriculture’s push to export turmeric to the international market and has begun processing the...

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6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 8, 2014

Top Cop Dispute – Call For Overseas Police Commish Stirs Debate. A suggestion by one of the country’s most powerful private-sector lobbies that the search for the next police commissioner should extend...

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A Brief Look At Police-Citizen Relations In Jamaica

The issue of police-citizen relations in Jamaica is never far from the headlines, what with numerous allegations of extra-judicial killings and other instances of brutality. Occasionally, we do see a...

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6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 12, 2016

Tivoli Jackpot – High-Powered Lawyers At West Kgn Enquiry Cost Taxpayers $150m, JDF Bill Alone $71m. Jamaican taxpayers had to fork out almost J$150 million to cover fees for the high-powered lawyers...

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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...

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No 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...

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Management 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...

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Jamaica 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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