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Jamaica tourism sector set for growth in 2025, says Minister Bartlett
Caribbean National Weekly
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June 30, 2025
Tourism Minister Hon. Edmund Bartlett says Jamaica’s tourism industry is on track for continued growth in 2025, driven by a drop in crime and a more favorable U.S. travel advisory. “Jamaica’s tourism industry remains on a strong trajectory. The...
PM Kamla absent as regional leaders meet in Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Akash Samaroo Senior Reporter akash.samaroo@cnc3.co.tt As regional leaders convene in Montego Bay, Jamaica, today for the 49th Caricom Heads of Government meeting, this country’s Prime Minister will be unexplainably absent....
Transport Minister Outlines Airport Development Projects Across Jamaica
Jamaica Information Service
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July 4, 2025
Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Hon. Daryl Vaz, says the Government is undertaking wide-ranging airport development projects across Jamaica, aimed at enhancing capacity, safety, and efficiency, in line with growing...
Jamaica Seeks King Charles’ Help for Slavery Reparations Questions
Times News Global
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June 29, 2025
Jamaica, June 27, 2025 — Jamaica is appealing to King Charles III to advocate for legal guidance from the UK’s Privy Council about slavery reparations. This initiative follows a meeting on June 24, where Jamaican parliament members discussed...
WATCH: Man shot by police in Manchester, victim’s relative says political stand-off triggered incident
Jamaica Observer
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July 6, 2025
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — A man was shot and injured by the police during an alleged confrontation in Fine Grass, north east Manchester on Saturday following a reported standoff between supporters of the two main political parties over the placing of...
Michael Myles |The indispensable role of opposition in democracy
The Gleaner
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July 17, 2025
AS A concerned citizen and an educator, I am addressing the alarming statement attributed to Prime Minister Holness in the June 17, Gleaner article, ‘Golding slams Holness over dismissal of Opposition’s role’. The prime minister is quoted as...
Jamaica’s Integrity Commission Act (Final Part)
Stabroek News
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June 30, 2025
Two issues in the news recently deserve brief commentaries. The first relates to the Government’s announcement that the salary increase of eight percent for public servants for 2025 will be paid out before 1 September, no doubt coinciding with the...
Prime Minister Gaston Browne Leads Antigua and Barbuda Delegation at 49th CARICOM Heads of Government Conference in Jamaica
Antigua News Room
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July 6, 2025
Prime Minister Gaston Browne Leads Antigua and Barbuda Delegation at 49th CARICOM Heads of Government Conference in Jamaica Montego Bay, Jamaica – 5 July 2025 – Prime Minister the Honourable Gaston Browne is leading Antigua and Barbuda’s...
Jamaican Govt. Takes Demand for Slavery Reparations to King Charles
Breitbart
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June 29, 2025
The Jamaican government is enlisting King Charles to help get its demand for slavery reparations heard at the highest level. The monarch has been approached to push the demand to the judicial committee of the Privy Council, the final court of...
Jamaica Trials Round-Up: Orlando Bennett claims first senior 110m hurdles title as Broadbell could still make World Championships team
Loop News
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June 30, 2025
Orlando Bennett captured his first national senior title on Sunday, winning the men’s 110m hurdles in a season’s best 13.10 seconds on the final day of the Jamaica Trials at the National Stadium in Kingston. The Paris 2024 Olympic finalist...
The Story of São Luís: How a Brazilian City Became the Reggae Capital of South America
Jamaicans.com
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July 16, 2025
São Luís, the capital of Maranhão in Brazil’s northeast, is often referred to as “Brazilian Jamaica.” It’s not a tourism tagline, but a reflection of how deeply reggae music has become embedded in the city’s social and cultural fabric. What began...
Election Talk or Reality? J’cans react to PM’s ‘great despair’ about youth migration
Loop News
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Social media users are weighing in after Prime Minister Andrew Holness expressed concern that many young Jamaicans are still set on migrating overseas, despite his belief that the era of general migration is coming to an end. While Holness did not...
Jamaica Trials: National record holders Nikisha Pryce and Rusheen McDonald claim 400m titles
Loop News
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June 30, 2025
National record holders Nikisha Pryce and Rusheen McDonald both claimed victories in the 400m finals on the last day of the Jamaica Trials on Sunday. Pryce successfully defended her women’s 400m title with a season’s best 49.97 seconds at the...
E-learning Jamaica a Critical Partner in Creating Digital Society
Jamaica Information Service
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July 4, 2025
Finance and the Public Service Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, has hailed e-Learning Jamaica (e-LJam) as a critical partner in Jamaica’s progress towards becoming a fully digital society. The entity, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this...
Sobers, Alexander to attend 49th CARICOM conference in Jamaica
Loop News
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July 5, 2025
Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs Sean Sobers and a delegation from Trinidad and Tobago which includes Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander, leaves today to attend the 49th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of...
Clouden: Stop wasting time and legalise ganja
The New Today Grenada
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July 5, 2025
Outspoken attorney-at-law Anselm Clouden has called on the 3-year old Dickon Mitchell-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government to fulfil its promise made to the young in the 2022 general election to legalise ganja on the island. Clouden,...
Hanover Emerging as Jamaica’s Leading Tourism Parish – Minister Bartlett
Jamaica Information Service
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July 4, 2025
Hanover is rapidly emerging as Jamaica’s leading tourism parish, driven by several major developments, according to Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett. “You are going to have, `among other things, the first casino tourism facility in the...
Jamaica: Expectant mothers urged to take greater care
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
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June 29, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Expectant mothers are being urged to take greater responsibility for their well-being in the wake of concern about a rise in neonatal deaths at the island’s largest maternity hospital. Speaking at the groundbreaking...
On This Day: July 4, 1959, The Cayman Islands Cease Being a Jamaican Dependency
Jamaicans.com
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July 4, 2025
On 4 July 1959, the Cayman Islands officially ended their status as a dependency of Jamaica and became a separate Crown Colony under direct British rule. This marked a pivotal turning point in the territory’s constitutional development and laid...
Impending US tax on remittances expected to impact Jamaican households and businesses
The Gleaner
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July 4, 2025
Effective December 31 this year, Jamaicans in the United States sending money to their relatives back home will have to pay a one per cent excise tax on such transactions. The one per cent tax is set out in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed by...