Reading Time: 6 minutes Jamaica’s Minister of Education Fayval Williams is facing a high level of opprobrium and vituperation for the performance of her ministry and the high number of teachers seeking better opportunities…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Of its own volition, and without the ‘teeth-pulling’ process of the Access to Information Act (ATI), the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has revealed that Jamaica wasted over J$18…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Jamaica’s Minister of Finance Dr Nigel Clarke is turning out to be quite the political bruiser, albeit in a well-fitted business suit. Last week he took down Minister of Commerce…
Reading Time: 5 minutes The truth is we have no one but ourselves to blame for how banks are treating Jamaicans today. Actually, I take that back. The banks played a calculated game and…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is reiterating calls for the Government to urgently act now in protection of the people against banking fees being imposed by some of the…
Reading Time: 19 minutes Senator Don Wehby, who is also GraceKennedy’s Group CEO, closed the “State of the Nation Debate 2021/22” in the Senate with his presentation “ Out of Many One People -We…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Women entrepreneurs and those aspiring to climb the corporate ladder just can’t catch a break with the system rigged against them. So said Jamaica’s Minister of Culture and Gender, Olivia…
Reading Time: 5 minutes A settlement should be quickly made to pay Jamaican police personnel overtime compensation. It is the right thing to do and ensures there is morale when crime is again out…
Reading Time: 8 minutes US President Joe Biden, speaking from the White House’s South Court Auditorium on Tuesday (November 23), took the occasion to address the issue of rising inflation and the state of…
Reading Time: 6 minutes —Article by Dennis Chung Recent numbers released by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), state that in the April to June 2021 quarter, the economy is estimated to have grown…
Reading Time: 2 minutes By Hu Xijin The exchange rate of Chinese yuan against the US dollar surged by 6.71 per cent last year. The yuan strengthened by 663 basis points on Monday, and the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Kmar Henry While the Tax Administration continues to learn and adapt to its fairly new RAISE system which was implemented in 2015, it has allowed the government to see…