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30 Oct, 2026
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BUILDERS PUSH BACK - Local experts reject skills deficit claims, urge NaRRA to tap J’can talent for major projects
Jamaica’s construction professionals are pushing back against suggestions that the island lacks the capacity to deliver major infrastructure projects as the National Reconstruction and Resilience…
30 Oct, 2026
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Golding blames Gov’t’s own non-performance for project delays
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Leader Mark Golding has dismissed claims that uncooperative public sector workers are hampering the Government’s project execution, insisting that the real problem is the…
30 Oct, 2026
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Gov’t says no plans to criminalise defamation
The Government is not considering reintroducing criminal sanctions for defamation despite calls by Senator Marlon Morgan for the Holness administration to do so. “This is not a government position,”…
30 Oct, 2026
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Millions more for meals
Another 16 sets of documents showing how Professor Fritz Pinnock, former president of Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), authorised payments totalling millions of dollars “for the provision of…
30 Oct, 2026
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Sagicor fraud trial stalls again as witness fails to appear
With just nine of the 35 witnesses having testified since the Sagicor fraud trial began last year July, proceedings suffered another setback on Thursday after a scheduled witness was unavailable to…
30 Oct, 2026
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NWC moving to refinance debt, offload idle properties
WESTERN BUREAU: Water Minister Mathew Samuda says the National Water Commission (NWC) is taking steps to refinance its high-interest debt and review its extensive landholdings in a bid to strengthen…
30 Oct, 2026
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‘Together We Rise’ brings buzz to Hip Strip
WESTERN BUREAU: The S Hotel in Montego Bay, St James, officially unveiled its new ‘Together We Rise’ monument at its Jimmy Cliff Boulevard property on Wednesday as the island marked the one-year…
30 Oct, 2026
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QWI director remains silent on buying SpaceX or Anthropic stock
The director of QWI Investments Ltd refrained from disclosing whether the fund will buy shares in SpaceX or Anthropic, even as gains on AI-linked US stocks pushed the investment company back to a…
29 Oct, 2026
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Jamaica shifts on Cuba - Gov’t defends abstention from US embargo vote as critics question historic policy change
The Government of Jamaica owes its citizens a better explanation for why it abstained from the United Nations General Assembly vote on the United States’ (US) embargo against Cuba, a political analyst…