Jamaica raised US$1 billion from the international capital markets on Wednesday at a coupon of 6.25 per cent, the lowest coupon the country has paid on an international bond. It was the government’s…
Japan’s central bank raises interest rate to 1.25%, the highest in 31 years
Japan’s central bank on Friday raised the benchmark interest rate to 1.25 per cent from 1.0 per cent, a 31-year-high. The Bank of Japan has been trying to normalise monetary policy after decades…
‘Envious’: Keith Poppin’s Channel One classic album
‘Envious’: Keith Poppin’s Channel One classic album From his home in North Carolina, Keith Poppin watched news that the legendary Channel One recording studio was demolished in Kingston, Jamaica. That action took place…
Reggae Vibes Album Top 20 | September 20 | 2026
September 20 | 2026 New Entries D’Yani – Live Life & Prosper The Rocksteady Conspiracy – In Vain Angie B – Fyaah In The Blood Soul Revivers – Holding It Down Anthony B…
Solar firm IEG mulls property development to unlock legacy losses
Innovative Energy Group (IEG) wants to enter property development to augment its solar-installation business, and would seek approval to use legacy tax losses from the Ciboney Group, a listed entity it acquired. “The…
FID seeks broker to sell 11 forfeited properties
The Financial Investigations Division (FID) has gone to market for a real estate brokerage firm to sell 11 properties taken from criminals, the first concrete step towards the privately run disposal programme the…
Mickel Jackson | When Parliament sentences instead of the judge
Illegal firearms remain the principal instrument of murder, robbery and intimidation. That is not in dispute. What is in dispute is whether a 15-year mandatory minimum, applied indiscriminately to possession of a prohibited…
Trevor Hamilton | Myths about the Jamaican education policy imperatives
The newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), in her annual address to educators, parents, policymakers, and other stakeholders in the sector, used Singapore as a benchmark and implied that the…
Imani Tafari-Ama | Reparations, sovereignty and the politics of justice
Aren’t you tired of dealing with successive government administrations that do not get it? Aren’t you fed up with the utter fraud of continuing to bow to the King of England as Jamaica’s…
Ja’s crime rate nears Costa Rica’s, but growth promise unfulfilled
There are few instances in economic life when the business community can expect a tangible return on an external shift without cutting another cheque, and the dramatic fall in Jamaica’s murder rate ought…