6 Things You Need To Know Today – May 2, 2014
Break Silence, EWI – Energy Consultant Urges Hong Kong-Based Company To Show Public Its Ability To Implement Project. Stephen Wedderburn, the man who coordinated the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project...
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Gov’t Heat On EWI – Paulwell Gives Energy Firm Days To Get House In Order. Facing a growing backlash for his handling of the 381-megawatt baseload project, Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell has...
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Lights Out For EWI – Firm To Lose 381-Megawatt Power Plant Licence, Project Likely To Be Yanked From Paulwell. Energy World International (EWI) yesterday suffered the same fate as Azurest when a...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – May 26, 2014
One Money Transfer Away From Poverty – Scores Of Jamaicans Depending On Remittances To Survive. For many Jamaicans, a life without their regular remittance from relatives in the diaspora would be...
View ArticleGordon Swaby: Changing Education Through Technology
The name Gordon Swaby is quickly becoming synonymous with youth entrepreneurship and technological innovation in Jamaica. The 23-year-old is most famous for EduFocal, the online social learning...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – June 5, 2014
Blame Portia – Opposition Believes Prime Minister Caused Energy Project Setback. Opposition Leader Andrew Holness yesterday blamed Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller for the latest failed attempt by...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – June 19, 2014
Parents, Teachers, Students Prepare For GSAT Results. As some 39,438 students yesterday prepared to line up this morning to hear which secondary schools they will be attending come September, parents...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 16, 2014
Chikungunya Fear: Health Ministry Renews Warnings As Suspected Case Discovered On Local Shores. The Ministry of Health revealed last night that its heightened surveillance system has detected a...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 27, 2014
College Crisis: Students Shun Teacher-Training Institutions; Administrators Say Thwaites Drove Them Away. The leadership of teachers’ colleges across the island is reporting that the number of students...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – September 22, 2014
Pleas For Patience – PM Declares Economic Programme Bearing Fruits. Proclaiming that Jamaica is now reaping “the sweet fruits of sacrifice”, Portia Simpson Miller, president of the governing People’s...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – November 24, 2014
Bring In The Obeah Man… Sensitise Traditional Healers About Ebola. As Jamaica continues to make preparations and put structures in place to deal with the deadly Ebola if it lands on local soil, one...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – December 19, 2014
‘We Believe In Jamaica’ – IDB President Marks 45 Years Of Partnership With Official Visit. Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), has indicated that the...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – April 2, 2015
Never Again! Arscott Says Jamaica Won’t See Another Major Fire At Riverton. Local Government Minister Noel Arscott said yesterday that Jamaica will never again see a fire of the magnitude of the last...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 7, 2015
Judgement Day In JLP – Holness’ Stewardship Focus At Caucus. The parliamentary group of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is scheduled to go into caucus today, a session in which the future of the party...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 13, 2015
Witch Hunt In PNP – Former Labourites Under Attack, Says Lloyd B. With seven former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) members lining up to join the People’s National Party (PNP), one so-called turncoat has...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – September 17, 2015
Reckless Management – PC Banks Taken Over To Protect Depositors Funds After High-Risk Loans Uncovered. An audit of the 110-year-old farmers’ institution, the National People’s Co-operative Bank (NPCB)...
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Stay The Course – World Bank Representative Appeals To Next Elected Government To Maintain Economic Programme. World Bank Country Manager Galina Sotirova is urging whichever party emerges victorious in...
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PNP By Default? – Study Shows Undecided Tired Of Ruling Party But No Love For The JLP. The People’s National Party (PNP) could return to form the Government almost by default, after the votes are...
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Green Light For New Phone Firm – Holness Rejects OCG Recommendation, Grants Cellular Licence To Holding Company. The true beneficiaries of Jamaica’s third cellular licence remain under a cloud as the...
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Jamaica’s Decade of Taxation
Jamaica has recovered from the precipice of recession and stagnation and has seen several consecutive quarters of economic expansion. This has come with the assistance of the IMF, the close monitoring...
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