6 Things You Need To Know Today – May 29, 2014
PJ Urges Tolerance – Former Prime Minister Calls For Understanding In Gay Debate. Former Prime Minister PJ Patterson is urging that the debate over Jamaica’s buggery law be framed within the context of...
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Bruce Lashes US – Former PM Claims America Has No Moral Authority To Penalise Ja For Human-Rights Abuse. Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has come out swinging against the United States, declaring...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 18, 2014
Jobs Are Coming! Development Bank Sees Big Money Boost For Small Businesses. The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) is projecting the creation of 12,000 jobs over the next five years which are to come...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 22, 2014
Subsidy Bleed – JUTC Loses $10m On Fares Every Day. The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) says it is losing $10 million per day on fare subsidies, and insists that the increases in fares, which take...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 25, 2014
Holness: Vindictive PNP Keeping Bus Fare Protesters At Bay. Opposition Leader Andrew Holness has expressed confidence that there is a strong wave of underground support for this morning’s scheduled...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – September 9, 2014
New Commish Approved. Some of Jamaica’s major international partners have given their stamp of approval to the appointment of career cop Carl Williams as the country’s next police commissioner,...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – September 18, 2014
Energy Path Set – Lawrence Announces Several Initiatives To Replace 381MW Project. A Dr Vin Lawrence-led team, charged with the responsibility of rebooting Jamaica’s baseload energy plan, has revealed...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – October 2, 2014
Ebola Panic: Local Doctors Say They Are Not Equipped To Handle Deadly Virus. If the Ebola virus should reach Jamaica, doctors at the nation’s hospitals, particularly the University Hospital of the West...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – October 13, 2014
Portia Sinking. People’s Champ Sees Worst Poll Numbers In 20 Years. For the first time in almost two decades of doing polls in Jamaica, pollster Bill Johnson has found that more Jamaicans have an...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – October 15, 2014
Jamaica On High Alert For Ebola – PM. An integrated National Coordinating Team, headed by the Ministry of Health and the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), has been established to lead the country’s...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – October 27, 2014
MSME Tech Boost Needed – Firms Missing Out On ICT Opportunities, Study Shows. The incorporation of technology in business operations is “an area of major need” for the country’s micro, small and...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – November 20, 201
Tourism Pipe Dream – Bartlett Questions Future Of Harmony Cove Project. Harmony Cove, the much vaunted high-end tourism development, is unlikely to get off the ground this fiscal year, Oneika Miller,...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – December 1, 2014
Ja Curbing HIV Spread, Says Harvey. As people around the world commemorate the 26th World AIDS Day today, Dr Kevin Harvey, acting permanent secretary at the Ministry of Health, said Jamaica is on the...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – February 11, 2015
Outbound! Poll Says J’cans Are Eager To Leave Country. Yet another study has found that a sizeable portion of young Jamaicans can’t wait to ditch the land of their birth for “greener pastures”… Read...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – March 19, 2015
Burned – Jennifer Edwards’ Contract Has Expired And Will Not Be Renewed. The three-year contract of Jennifer Edwards, the executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) has...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – March 26, 2015
Crucial Meeting To Decide Holness’ Fate As Leader. Members of the parliamentary opposition will come face to face tomorrow at a crucial meeting which has been called by Leader of Opposition Business in...
View ArticleHurricane Preparedness Week – The Costliest Storm In Jamaica’s History
Hurricane Ivan (2004) did extensive damage to Jamaica’s infrastructure, even though it didn’t make direct contact. Here is a breakdown of the costs, using statistics from the Planning Institute of...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 27, 2015
What Gangs? – Thwaites Questions Accuracy Of Reported Criminal Cliques In Schools. Education Minister Ronald Thwaites, backtracking on his recent description of uncontrolled students as ‘leggo beasts’,...
View ArticleGIS Day – Geographic Information Systems In Jamaica
Today is Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day, and several local organisations have been making use of this technology to help institutions, companies and other agencies to leverage data when...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – November 23, 2015
No 2015 Poll – Portia Opts Not To Call Election This Year. Jamaicans will definitely not be called upon to vote for a government before Christmas. After being on the road for five weeks, People’s...
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