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09 Oct, 2026 0

5 Questions with Nadine Sutherland

On Saturday, Nadine Sutherland will receive the Key to the City of Tamarac, Florida, and the Key to Broward County, in recognition of her exceptional contribution to Jamaican music and lasting…
Oran Hall
09 Oct, 2026 0

Oran A Hall | Inflation winners and losers

Inflation is more than higher prices. It is that creepy force that changes the real value of assets, savings, income and debt. It makes some people better off and others worse off financially, as some…
Defence lawyers across Jamaica withdrawing their services from the country’s criminal courts, escalating their dispute with the Government over mandatory minimum sentences under the Firearms Act.
09 Oct, 2026 0

Kristen Gyles | Who should be held accountable for crime?

Recently, the prime minister and members of his Cabinet met with the Jamaican Bar Association and the Advocates’ Association of Jamaica after a silent protest by members of the legal fraternity…
In this photo taken on October 29, 2025, residents are seen walking through Santa Cruz after Hurricane Melissa passed.
09 Oct, 2026 0

Peter Espeut | Is NaRRA really here to help the west?

I am sure that, when sympathetic Jamaicans and others overseas donated money to ease the sufferings of Hurricane Melissa victims in western Jamaica, they didn’t intend their hard-earned cash to be…
Letters
09 Oct, 2026 0

Letter of the Day | Housing should be treated as a national emergency

THE EDITOR, Madam: I am a visitor to Jamaica and I would like to throw some light on the housing problems here. Other nations have addressed this by compulsorily purchasing empty homes, taxing second…
President Donald Trump arrives to speak during an event at the US Institute of Peace, in Washington DC.
09 Oct, 2026 0

Please don’t let me be misunderstood

THE EDITOR, Madam: There’s no middle ground for President Donald Trump, who is either loved or loathed and, with mid-term Congressional elections looming, those feelings are intensified in all types…
Letters
09 Oct, 2026 0

Readers’ reactions

Government scales back NaRRA office space after public backlash Why centralise ALL the jobs in Kingston? Have the head office there and put a real NaRRA office in the West so jobs and decisions…
Business
09 Oct, 2026 0

Innovative Energy Group cites $900m pipeline

Innovative Energy Group Limited (IEG) said it enters its 2027 fiscal year with about $900 million in signed contracts and letters of intent. Not all of that pipeline will convert to revenue, but the…

Leacroft Forden (left), managing director of KeFordco Ltd, and Nick Curtis, co-founder of Bocobay.
09 Oct, 2026 0

Bocobay founder eyes seven Caribbean islands as Jamaica push gathers pace

Nick Curtis began by managing one villa in Aruba during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the co-founder and CEO of Bocobay runs a vacation-rental company with about 400 homes in four countries, and he…