NEPA to take legal action over illegal importation of three monkeys

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) says it intends to take the strongest possible legal action against those responsible for the illegal importation of three monkeys that were seen running loose in Stony Hill, St. Andrew, earlier this week.

All three monkeys, which were identified as white-faced capuchins, are not native to Jamaica and have since been captured.

Sixth straight week of decline in US jobless claims 

Reading Time: 2 minutesApplications for US unemployment benefits fell for a sixth straight week and are now at their lowest since mid-April, according to the latest numbers out of America’s Labour Department. This…

Farmer charged with fatal stabbing of woman at nightclub

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLawmen assigned to the St Elizabeth Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) have charged a man with murder following the stabbing death of 34-year-old Nickesha Francis-Monfort, otherwise called ‘Chocolate’, at a nightclub in the parish on Saturday, June 28.

Charged is 33-year-old Kenrick Troupe, otherwise called ‘Brownman’, a farmer of Coke Drive,
Santa Cruz, in the parish.

Over 4,000 new electronic Motor Vehicle Registration Certificates issued island-wide in first 2-days

Reading Time: 2 minutesTax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) is reporting that over 4,000 new electronic Motor Vehicle Registration Certificates (eMVRC) were successfully processed and issued over the first two days since the launch of…

Xi Jinping: China, EU should uphold openness and cooperation, properly manage differences

Reading Time: < 1 minuteChinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday said that China and the European Union should uphold openness and cooperation, and properly manage differences. Xi made the remarks when meeting with President…

Minister of tourism welcomes direct charter flight from Ecuador

Reading Time: 2 minutesMinister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, has welcomed the arrival of charter flight RER 9811, which touched down from Quito, Ecuador, at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on Friday, July 18.

Operated by Ecuadorian airline AeroRegional, this flight marks the beginning of an ambitious ten-flight charter programme that will bring over 1,000 Ecuadorian visitors to Jamaica over the coming period.