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Johnson Smith
Updated 7 hours ago by Kimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

TCN U-TURN - Govt backtracks on commitment to make deal public

A decision by Jamaica and the United States to withhold the full details of the controversial third-country nationals (TCN) agreement has been described as “odd” by former diplomat Byron Blake, who says similar deals have been made public in other countries. Blake, the former deputy permanent representative to the United Nations and former assistant secretary general of CARICOM, said the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the two countries in June must pass through various legislative bodies in the US.

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Caption: From left: Jorge Martinez, country manager of Cemex Jamaica and managing director of Carib Cement; Minister of Energy, Transport and Telecommunications Daryl Vaz; and Airports Authority of Jamaica Chairman Dr Douglas Lindo listen as PAC Kingston A
Updated 7 hours ago

$8.1 billion NMIA apron upgrade gathers pace

Work is under way on an $8.1-billion project to reconstruct and upgrade the aircraft apron at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) in Kingston, a key component of the facility’s…
Hall
Updated 9 hours ago by Albert Ferguson

Adapt or be left behind, administrative professionals told

WESTERN BUREAU: Administrative professionals who fail to adapt to rapid technological change and evolving workplace demands risk being left behind, according to Keron Hall, president of the Kingston…
From left: PAHO Director Dr Jarbas Barbosa and Gilead Sciences Chief Commercial and Corporate Affairs Officer Johanna Mercier, with copies of the agreement that enables Latin American and Caribbean countries to access lenacapavir as part of preventive medi
Updated 9 hours ago

PAHO expands access to HIV prevention drug

WASHINGTON (CMC): The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says it is opening new avenues for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to access lenacapavir, a long-acting HIV prevention…
Ethnie Miller Simpson.
Updated 7 hours ago by Albert Ferguson

Miller Simpson warns about data drain as J’cans feed foreign AI services

WESTERN BUREAU: Educator Ethnie Miller Simpson is expressing concern that while Jamaica is pumping information into artificial-intelligence (AI) systems at an accelerating rate, the country does not…
Lacey Ann Bartley, managing director of Bartley’s AllInWood, displaying some of her products.
Updated 9 hours ago

Bartley’s, Ettenio join forces to package J’can luxury

WESTERN BUREAU: Two female-led Jamaican companies are betting that collaboration, local ingredients and a strong sense of place can give home-grown manufacturers a bigger slice of the lucrative…
Linvern Wright, principal of the William Knibb Memorial High School in Trelawny.
Updated 7 hours ago by Albert Ferguson

$100K mobile phones but no textbooks

WESTERN BUREAU: A senior school administrator is challenging parents to rethink their priorities as the new school year gets under way, noting that some are spending heavily on their children’s…
C.H.E.W. Foundation CEO, Sereste Bell (left) presents a backpack filled with school supplies to a participant of SOS Children’s Villages Jamaica. Looking on is the foundation’s chairperson, Dr Leanne Levers.
Updated 9 hours ago

SOS children benefit from C.H.E.W. Foundation education drive

Approximately 70 children at SOS Children’s Villages Jamaica recently received back-to-school support from the C.H.E.W. Foundation, combining educational supplies with a day of activities aimed at…
From left: Monsignor Eremodo Muavesi, rector of the Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Montego Bay, St James, formally blesses Mount Alvernia High School’s new solar-power system on Wednesday. Vaden Maragh, managing director of EMRIC Solutions Limited; Dawn
Updated 9 hours ago by Christopher Thomas

Mt Alvernia High gets $6.5m replacement solar-power system

WESTERN BUREAU: The Mount Alvernia High School (MAHS) in Montego Bay, St James, has received a new solar-energy system courtesy of its Central Florida International Alumni Association. The…
Some of the weapons seized by the police in the Half-Way Tree commercial hub in St Andrew since August 16.
Updated 9 hours ago by Corey Robinson

JC student stabbed amid 700+ weapons seized in HWT in past month

More than 700 weapons have been confiscated from people in the Half-Way Tree town centre since August 16, including a few taken from schoolchildren, as the police seek to curb violence in the busy St…