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Senator Lambert Brown, president of the University and Allied Workers Union, inspects documents with Dr Renee Badroe, president of the Jamaica Medical Doctors’ Association, during the JMDA’s closing submission last Wednesday in a matter currently befor
April 4, 2026 by Edmond Campbell

When doctors leave, what happens to the patients, Brown warns

Senior trade unionist Senator Lambert Brown this week cautioned that the Government’s move to scrap incentive and emergency duty allowances for doctors who are mandated to work overtime could have a…
From left: Odaine Williams, information technology manager; Marvin Richards, operations manager, and Stephen Richards, president of Reality Focus Limited.
April 4, 2026 by Olivia Brown

New pilot links Clarendon farmers to corporate buyers

A new initiative aimed at tackling market-access challenges facing small farmers in Jamaica is set to roll out through a 90-day corporate farmers’ market pilot programme spearheaded by Reality Focus…
Roderick Rainford
April 4, 2026

Former BOJ Governor and CARICOM Secretary General Roderick Rainford has died

Roderick G. Rainford, OCC, a former Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General and Governor of the Bank of Jamaica, has died. Rainford passed away quietly at his home in St Andrew this…
Tamara McCaw.
April 4, 2026 by Lester Hinds

Tamara McCaw breaks new ground in Brooklyn

Tamara McCaw has made history as the first Jamaica-born individual to lead one of New York City’s most iconic cultural institutions, following her appointment as president of the Brooklyn Academy of…
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett with tourism workers at the April 2 opening of Half Moon, where he announced that the Tourism Workers Pension Scheme has grown to $6 billion and outlined intentions to introduce a health plan next.
April 4, 2026 by Janet Silvera

Tourism rebound hits 80 per cent as Half Moon reopens – Bartlett

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s tourism sector has rebounded to more than 80 per cent of pre-hurricane levels, with the reopening of Half Moon signalling renewed confidence in the island’s post-Melissa…
Fayval Williams, minister of finance and the public service, speaking at the University of Technology Western Campus Business Seminar.
April 4, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Williams bats for reformed SLB, saying it’s not a burden

WESTERN BUREAU: Finance Minister Fayval Williams is urging tertiary students to become ambassadors for Jamaica’s student loan programme, saying outdated perceptions about the scheme could be…
Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Major General (Ret’d) Antony Anderson, delivers the keynote address at RNFJ’s Inaugural Gala, held at the Royal Ballroom in Bowie, Maryland on March 28.
April 4, 2026

Resilience by design

Right Now for Jamaica (RNFJ) has put its money where its mission is. During the organisation’s inaugural fundraising gala, held March 28, at the Royal Ballroom in Maryland, the diaspora group…
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April 5, 2026

Three men killed in alleged police confrontation in St Catherine

Three men were fatally shot early this morning by the police in Browns Hall district, St Catherine during an alleged confrontation. They are yet to be identified. The police report that about 2:35,…
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April 5, 2026

Millions worth of counterfeit shoes seized at store in downtown Kingston, supervisor charged

A supervisor at a haberdashery along Barry Street in downtown Kingston has been arrested and charged by the police following the seizure of more than 1,900 pairs of counterfeit shoes. …