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January 9, 2026
Cash holdings in investment schemes up 40% to $18.5 billion
Jamaica’s securities dealers are sitting on relatively high levels of cash within a market affected by uncertainty. Cash holdings in local collective investment schemes (CIS) surged 40.2 percent to…
January 9, 2026
Taylor Swift leads iHeartRadio Music Award nominations again
NEW YORK (AP): Taylor Swift once again leads the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Award nominees with nine. She is followed by Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Alex Warren, who are tied with eight each. The…
January 9, 2026
Peter Espeut | Are we driven by logic?
I have written here before that I wish that the science of logic would be taught in every high school in Jamaica. As a start, it should improve student performance in mathematics, which is a refined…
January 9, 2026
Gmail to become personal AI assistant
More artificial intelligence (AI) is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most popular email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarise far-flung…
January 9, 2026
Trump wants to ban large investors from buying houses
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he wants to block large institutional investors from buying houses, saying that a ban would make it easier for younger families to buy their first homes.
January 9, 2026
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January 9, 2026
Half a million fewer passengers in 2025
Jamaica ended 2025 with 524,000 fewer passengers, marking the largest annual decline since the pandemic, as Hurricane Melissa battered the island’s tourism sector. “Montego Bay and Kingston recorded…
January 9, 2026
Kristen Gyles | What caused the blackout in Venezuela?
For months leading up to January 3, the US special forces had been rehearsing its step-by-step capture plan for the arrest of Nicolás Maduro from his home in Caracas, Venezuela. At roughly 2 a.m. in…
January 9, 2026
Job openings slide to 2nd-lowest level in five years
US employers posted far fewer jobs in November than the previous month, a sign that employers are not yet ramping up hiring even as growth has picked up. Businesses and government agencies posted 7.1…