The Caribbean Court of Justice, CCJ, is defending the integrity and independence of its bench after the publication of internal e-mails which claim to show five of the court’s six sitting judges challenging the leadership of its Jamaican president, Justice Winston Anderson. The allegations, which include claims of so-called ‘panel fixing’ and attempts to sway […]

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Chief executive officer of the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority, NaRRA, Ambassador Antony Anderson, is off to Peru to study how that South American country rebuilt after catastrophic flooding. He’s to spend five days in Peru, wrapping up on Thursday. It’s his first visit to the country since taking up the leadership of NaRRA, and […]

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Jamaica has a new Ambassador to Japan. Foreign Affairs Minister, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, has appointed career diplomat Ariel Bowen to the Tokyo post, the seventh person to hold it. Mrs Bowen succeeds Ambassador Shorna-Kay Richards, who completed her term in Tokyo at the start of this year. Mrs Bowen’s overseas postings include Minister-Counsellor at […]

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Kari Lake has not been confirmed as the United States Ambassador to Jamaica and now cannot be for at least another five weeks. A previous Nationwide News report stated that Lake had been confirmed for the post, closing a gap of more than 18 months in which the US had no Senate-confirmed envoy in Kingston. […]

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Humbling and overwhelming. That’s how cabinet minister, and West Portland MP, Daryl Vaz, describes news of his national honour awarded by the government. Vaz has been awarded the Order of Jamaica for exceptional contribution to the public service and representational politics. It’s the country’s fourth highest national honour. Similarly, outgoing governor of the Bank of […]

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The imposition of general consumption tax, GCT, on the duty concession for qualifying public sector workers remains a sticking point between the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions, JCTU, and the government. JCTU president, St. Patrice Ennis, says the unions will continue to advocate for its reversal, arguing that the sum reaped from the revenue measure […]

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The government of Jamaica is taking steps to ratify a global treaty against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Foreign affairs minister, Kamina Johnson Smith, says nuclear weapons remain a significant threat to the peaceful coexistence of nation states. Minister Johnson Smith was giving remarks at the University of the West Indies’ Inaugural Freedom Lecture earlier […]

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Opposition Spokesman on Environment and Climate Resilience, Omar Newell, is welcoming a decision by the National Environment and Planning Agency to halt the construction of fish ponds at Barking Lodge in St Thomas. NEPA has served an enforcement notice ordering all work to stop until an application for the development is submitted and considered. Newell […]

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Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness says the rebuilding of Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa will be the largest coordinated national undertaking since Independence. Speaking during his Independence Day message the Prime Minister says the work will be delivered through the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority, NaRRA. He says NaRRA will cut through fragmentation, prepare sound projects, […]

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Opposition Leader Mark Golding is calling on Jamaicans to come together to finish decolonising the 1962 constitution removing the foreign monarch as head of state, and replacing the country’s final court. In his message marking the 64th anniversary of Independence, Golding says the final court should no longer be what he calls the colonial vestige […]

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