Boasting strong liquidity and good credit quality, Scotia Group Jamaica Limited expects to continue its positive growth momentum, eyeing increased results across the business during the rest of this financial year. Speaking at…
Danger averted!
Bauxite and alumina company Jamalco is insisting that a leak containing hazardous caustic soda from its red mud pond in Hayes, Clarendon, is minor and has been contained. It counters a claim by…
Cure My Pain – The Documentary
Cure My Pain – The Documentary RedARed Music Group has released a grassroots documentary that explores the usage of marijuana from the perspectives of residents living in the inner city region of Jamaica….
The Springtones’ cover of “High On Your Love”
The Springtones’ cover of “High On Your Love” NEW RELEASE The practice of covering songs from American artists has been present in reggae music, and its subgenres, for a long time. This is…
Gordon Robinson | The system is rotten, it requires overhaul
Jamaicans’ vulnerability to entrenched colonial brainwashing, aggravated by 60 years of failure to begin remedial education, affects every strata of society. So, Jamaica Observer reported (May 30) that eminent Counsel K.D. Knight mounted…
José Aguilar-Manjarrez | Plastic-free oceans – an urgent need to protect environment
Global plastic production has increased exponentially in the last decades, reaching nearly 400 million tons per year. Of this total, only nine per cent has been recycled. The rest ends up in landfills,…
First social IPO coming
The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, PSOJ, plans to list its charity Project STAR on the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange via an initial public offering set to raise $100 million. The social shares…
Real estate sector still lagging on anti-money laundering compliance
The Real Estate Board of Jamaica, REB, says its still labouring to bring a number of licensees that, together, handle billions of dollars in sales annually, in line with laws that are meant…
Listen to the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending ending June 9th, 2023
Top Stories This Week New Krispy Kreme Franchise In Kingston Draws Huge Crowd At Official Opening Jamaica’s Minister Of Legal And Constitutional Affairs Will Not Support Legalized Abortion Top Caribbean News Guyana Seeks…
Anger and hope
A sense of anger mixed with caution and hope was evident among parents at Braeton Primary and Infant School in Portmore, St Catherine, Friday morning, a day after an eight-year-old student and her…