Close to two-thirds of the Operation PRIDE home owners still don’t hold legal titles to the land they have lived on for nearly three decades. This is after the government promised to make them property owners. That’s according to the Housing Agency of Jamaica, HAJ’s own submission to Parliament’s Public Administration and Appropriations Committee, PAAC, […]

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Jamaica is going backwards on more than one-third of its development goals. That’s the finding of a new government report card on the country’s progress toward the global Sustainable Development Goals, SDG. The Voluntary National Review is a report from the country to the United Nations about its progress on satisfying the SDG by 2030 […]

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Opposition Spokesman on Finance, Julian Robinson, is demanding the government reverse course on its decision to increase the fees charged by the Financial Services Commission, FSC, to insurance companies. Robinson was speaking on a motion tabling the report of the regulations committee, which reviewed the decision by the FSC some weeks ago. He lays full […]

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The House of Representatives descended into chaos again on Tuesday after Speaker, Juliet Holness refused to allow Leader of Opposition Business, Phillip Paulwell, to speak during the agenda item ‘Announcements’. The Opposition members had anticipated the tabling of the Integrity Commission’s latest annual report. But the report was not among the documents announced, which prompted […]

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Minister of National Security, Dr. Horace Chang launched a fresh defence of the government’s agreement with the United States regarding so called Third Country Nationals. Dr. Chang says claims being made in social media circles are ridiculous. Jamaica is one of more than 20 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America to have signed TCN […]

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The Jamaican government will be sending a petition to King Charles to seek legal guidance on slavery reparations claim from Britain. Culture Minister, Olivia Babsy Grange, made the announcement in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, as part of her Sectoral Debate presentation. The trip to petition the King is scheduled for September 6. Jamaica […]

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Jamaica’s economy has contracted for a second consecutive quarter, with total value added falling 4.1 percent in the first quarter of 2026 when compared with the same period last year. That’s according to a release from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica, STATIN, on Tuesday. But despite the contract, there are signs of recovery in the […]

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Jamaica’s unemployment rate has climbed as the labour market continues to feel the effects of Hurricane Melissa. New figures from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica, STATIN, show the rate rose to 3.7 percent in April. That’s up from 3.3 percent a year earlier. Chevon Campbell, has the details. The April Labour Force Survey shows the […]

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The Tourism Product Development Company, TPDCo, recorded a deficit of $22 million for the 2023-2024 financial year, even as the government funding that makes up all of its income rose by about 21 percent. That’s according to the agency’s audited financial statements tabled in Parliament last week. Shaloy Smikle, tells us more. The loss for […]

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Government Minister Dr. Andrew Wheatley has gone to the Supreme Court in a bid to quash the Integrity Commission’s findings against him and to stop the criminal charges the Commission says he should face. The report, tabled in Parliament on June 17, found that Wheatley acquired assets that were disproportionate to his lawful earnings between […]

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