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Reading Time: 6 minutesThis week, the Cannabis Licensing Authority celebrated the amendment of the rules governing the growth of cannabis in Jamaica. These amendments represent a comprehensive effort to remove barriers, expand participation,…
Reading Time: 17 minutesThe Managing Director of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva took questions from the press at the multi-lateral’s Spring Meeting held at its headquarters in Washington. This press briefing was moderated by…
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe opening lines of the old black and white television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies tell a familiar story—one of sudden fortune, of “black gold” bubbling up from the ground and transforming lives overnight. It is…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, as Jamaica turns its focus to reconstruction, there is a critical opportunity for developers, building owners, and operators to rethink how buildings are designed…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt a time when global energy markets are increasingly unpredictable, countries across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are feeling the strain. For many Caribbean states in particular, vulnerability to…
Reading Time: 2 minutesToo often, the nation is confronted with troubling headlines: a visitor or worker suffers a medical emergency at a hotel, and the familiar cry follows—there was no ambulance available in…
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere are moments in the life of a people—and of a world—when language itself begins to falter. Words we once trusted feel lighter than they should. Titles we once respected…
Reading Time: 8 minutesSex in shelters, the JTA and politics Sadly, partisan politics has, for the umpteenth time, interfered with a matter that calls for urgent attention, when such a serious and delicate…
Reading Time: 5 minutesMaximum respect to First Lady Melania Trump. Earlier this week, she publicly spoke about the Jeffrey Epstein saga and said she played no part in his deeds and met him…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are moments in a nation’s life when silence becomes complicity. When outrage must move beyond words and into action. The alleged heinous crime of a father against his own…
Reading Time: 3 minutesSexual Crimes against children are unforgivable. The Sexual Offences Act (2009) modernised large portions of the law and created a Sex Offender Registry, while the Child Care and Protection Act…
Reading Time: 3 minutesJLP Senator Marlon Morgan is describing President of the PNP Mark Golding’s assertion that his Region 3 Chairman Dennis Gordon’s company JACDEN broke no law in the unfolding UHWI tax…