Washington has money to spend, and Jamaica is one of the countries it is looking to invest in. The US Development Finance Corporation, DFC, America’s investment arm, says the island has significant potential. DFC officials were here recently as part of a Caribbean sweep as the agency moves to put newly expanded investment power to […]

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Barita Investments is reporting a sharp jump in revenue earning for the nine months ending in June. The company netted $10.1 billion in operating revenue over the period. Shaloy Smikle reports. According to the investment house’s latest earnings call, it represents a 61 percent increase over the same period last year. Net profit, similarly, rose […]

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The Jamaican economy continues to be weighed down by the lingering effects of Hurricane Melissa, contracting by 2.9 percent in the April to June quarter compared to a similar period for 2025. That’s according to estimates provided by the Planning Institute of Jamaica, PIOJ, in its latest quarterly media briefing on Tuesday. However, the PIOJ […]

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Attorney Anthony Williams, says the residents of Coopers Pen, in Trelawny, had no legal right to further notice of their eviction and the demolition of their homes on Tuesday. Williams weighed in on the issue on Sunday during Nationwide News’ The Week That Was. New Falmouth Resorts Limited obtained a court order for the demolition […]

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Veteran central banker and former regional financial stability adviser, Dr. R. Brian Langrin, has been named the new Governor of the Bank of Jamaica, BOJ. The Ministry of Finance announced his appointment in a release on Monday. Dr. Langrin’s appointment will be effective Wednesday, August 19. He succeeds Richard Byles, whose term ends Tuesday after […]

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The People’s National Party, PNP, is calling on Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness to publicly confirm that a caveat lodged against the title to the Coopers Pen property remains in place. A Caveat records a party’s potential interest in a matter. The PNP also wants clarity on whether any party local or overseas has asked […]

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President of the Caribbean Court of Justice, Justice Winston Anderson, is rejecting allegations that panels of the court have been fixed to secure particular outcomes, calling the claim wholly untrue. But in a detailed statement issued Friday, Justice Anderson concedes he may have approached a dispute over judicial dress too strongly and that a better […]

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Opposition Leader Mark Golding is calling on the government to give an account for allegations that several men from Coopers Pen in Trelawny, were detained by police just hours before several homes in the community were demolished on Tuesday. Two men from the community told Nationwide News on Thursday that they and several others were […]

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Opposition Leader, Mark Golding, says the government needs to resettle the residents of Coopers Pen in Trelawny, whose homes were demolished on Tuesday. Golding alongside other members of the PNP, toured the area on Thursday. Chevon Campbell tells us more. The government has mobilised assistance for residents of Coopers Pen who’ve been left without shelter […]

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The government is condemning comments by Opposition Spokesman on Human Rights, Isat Buchanan, encouraging Jamaicans unaffected by the demolition in Coopers Pen, Trelawny to pretend they are affected to receive taxpayer-funded housing. State Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Senator Abka Fitz-Henley, describes the comments as repugnant, disgraceful and unbecoming of a lawmaker. […]

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