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Dr Damie Sinanan said the current shipping system makes it expensive and inefficient to move food between Caribbean territories, with some shipments requiring goods to be routed through Panama, Jamaica, or Miami in the United States before reaching neighbo
05 Oct, 2026 0

CEDA: Costly shipping, inefficient logistics hurting regional food trade

WESTERN BUREAU: The region’s push to boost food and agricultural exports is being held back by high shipping costs, inefficient logistics and fragmented sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) requirements,…
Minister of Agriculture Floyd Green speaking at a plenary session at the 20th Caribbean Week of Agriculture at the Ocean Coral Spring Resort in Trelawny on September 30.
05 Oct, 2026 0

‘Real work starts’ - Green calls for action on Caribbean food barriers as CWA wraps up

WESTERN BUREAU Caribbean countries are being urged to dismantle standards barriers that continue to stifle the movement of agricultural and fisheries products across regional borders, as governments…
“I want the truth to be out; my story. People don’t stop to think or to try to know the type of person that they are talking about.”
04 Oct, 2026 0

Deported and defamed - Jamaican rejects US immigration authorities’ characterisation of ‘criminal history’, says charges were dismissed

A Jamaican man deported after 12 years in the United States is rejecting allegations by immigration authorities there that he is a violent criminal, insisting that serious criminal charges brought…
A portrait of Dervan Malcolm at his remembrance service held yesterday at the Boulevard Baptist Church in St Andrew.
04 Oct, 2026 0

Cry for truth - Dervan Malcolm remembered as Jamaicans urged to check the facts in search for ‘both sides of the story’

Jamaica is crying out for truth, Reverend Dr Devon Dick, pastor at Boulevard Baptist Church in St Andrew, declared yesterday, citing a lack of trust in the community. “Citizens do not think that they…
Toshyna Patterson and her daughter, Sarayah Paulwell.
03 Oct, 2026 0

‘Special kind of evil’

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes said the Kingston painter, who was eligible for the death penalty for murdering Toshyna Patterson and her baby, should really be breathing his last breath in prison – not…
Euon Douglas Graham, mother of 20-year-old D’Jonnay Graham, who was shot dead by her police lover in June 2025.
03 Oct, 2026 0

Mom of slain 20-y-o wanted life sentence for police lover

The mother of 20-year-old D’Jonnay Graham, who was shot dead by her police lover in June 2025, has expressed displeasure that he was sentenced for manslaughter, insisting that her beloved daughter was…
A section of Little Dunn’s River.
03 Oct, 2026 0

UDC warns it cannot guarantee daily services at Little Dunn’s River

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) says the relevant team has been directed to take steps to facilitate public access to Little Dunn’s River Beach in Ocho Rios, St Ann, in compliance with a court…
Dr Jubilee Brown-Service, president of the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association.
03 Oct, 2026 0

Docs to decide on next steps in response to delayed IDT ruling

More than 100 junior doctors at the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester stayed off the job on Friday, joining hundreds of colleagues across the island. The junior doctors abstained from work in…
Opposition Leader Mark Golding.
03 Oct, 2026 0

Opposition wants probe into senior staff exodus at Gordon House

Opposition Leader Mark Golding has written to the Office of the Services Commission (OSC) requesting an urgent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the recent resignation of Deputy Clerk…