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02 Oct, 2026
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JMMB Group watching interest rates hikes, adds that Guyana market difficult to enter
Large financial provider JMMB Group Ltd said it is closely monitoring US interest rates and Middle East tensions, while flagging the Guyanese market as difficult to enter. “It’s a little volatile…
02 Oct, 2026
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Payoneer renews Etsy deal, but most Jamaican sellers remain shut out
Payoneer, the cross-border payments company many Jamaicans use to collect overseas earnings, has renewed its partnership with global marketplace Etsy through to 2029. The renewal continues Payoneer…
02 Oct, 2026
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Kintyre seeks additional US$500,000 to fund growth
Kintyre Holdings, the Junior Market company, aims to raise US$500,000 in private equity funding to finance operations. Earning nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in profit over six months has…
02 Oct, 2026
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Movie Review | ‘Verity’ puts Hathaway, Johnson and Hartnett in Colleen Hoover thriller
AP: In Verity, it’s hard to know who to trust. There’s Anne Hathaway’s titular character, a wildly popular novelist who is unable to speak or move after a car accident, but whose secret, disturbing…
02 Oct, 2026
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Pandora opens $150-million Vietnam jewellery factory powered by renewable energy
Danish jewellery company Pandora has opened the world’s largest fine-jewellery crafting facility in Vietnam, a US$150-million factory powered entirely by renewable electricity and using 100 per cent…
02 Oct, 2026
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Kristen Gyles | Who wrote the SBA?
I have had the privilege of not only performing School-Based Assessments (SBAs) for subjects I sat at the CSEC level, but also marking SBAs for students sitting CSEC exams. In my days sitting CSEC,…
02 Oct, 2026
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Fesco opening more stations
Future Energy Source Company Ltd (FESCO) plans to open two more dealer-owned service stations this year, which would take its network to 26 islandwide. The expansion follows record sales and rising…
02 Oct, 2026
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Peter Espeut | A mighty tree has fallen
A few weeks ago, I lost a good friend. Baptist minister the Rev Dr Neville George Callam passed away on August 15 while on a visit to the United States. At his funeral last week, many said he will be…
02 Oct, 2026
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Jamaica has a salary problem, but we keep calling it a cost-of-living problem This is true enuh, the wages paid to Jamaicans are abysmal compared to the cost of living. - @unbrash Only someone…