THIS YEAR, Mother’s Day will be more than flowers and chocolates for lucky Western Union customers. GraceKennedy Remittance Services (GKRS), the exclusive agent of Western Union in Jamaica, in collaboration with Courts Jamaica, is offering a gift...
FTX says that nearly all of its customers will receive the money back that they are owed, two years after the cryptocurrency exchange imploded, and some will get more than that. FTX said in a court filing late Tuesday that it owes about US$11.2...
I WENT to the Jamaica National Bank offices in Half-Way Tree recently to withdraw some money from my account, arriving at 10.30 a.m. This turned out to be an adventure that I hope never to have again. On arrival, I was greeted rather pleasantly by...
LAST WEEK, I wrote a column suggesting that marriage, or rather a healthier approach to marriage, could be one of the solutions to some of our persisting social ills, in particular crime. Marriage, I argued, with its vows of loyalty, commitment,...
SMALL ISLAND Developing States (SIDS) have made public their desire to have special provisions of support form a part of the proposed legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. “We encourage additional opportunities for members to engage on...
THE EDITOR, Madam: There has been much talk about an aircraft which came to Jamaica with persons who were refused landed status by the Passport, Citizenship and Immigration Agency (PICA). As someone in the travel industry, I am seeing growing...
The National Fisheries Authority (NFA) has commenced phase-one implementation of the ‘IrieFINS’ online licensing and registration system. This will eliminate the need for fishers to come into the authority’s head office, located in Newport East,...
WORLD ENVIRONMENT Day nears and with it a focus on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience, with the theme ‘Our Land, Our Future. We are #GenerationRestoration’. Celebrations for the observance take place on June 5, with this year’...
The National Health Fund (NHF) will this year expand its support for diagnostic tests for the early detection of cervical and prostate cancers. All Jamaican female residents who are 21 years and over will receive a subsidy to help cover the cost of...
The HEART/NSTA Trust has made a significant advancement in the national technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system, with the integration of cyber-physical components into various programmes. Sharing details on this, the Trust’s...
Since January, Sonia Fuller, a retired teacher, has been forking out $5,000 every three weeks to pay truckers to bring water to her house. Fuller lives in Essex Hall in West Rural St Andrew and, about 15 minutes from her house, runs the New River...
PARAMARIBO (CMC): Suriname has become the latest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to indicate a willingness to send troops to Haiti as part of a United Nations-sanctioned Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission to be led by Kenya. “We...