Culture
JM | Jan 18, 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes Crime in Jamaica has always been a point of issue. It has been the highest in the entirety of the western hemisphere for several years. According to travellerworldwide.com, there are…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Brazilian scholar Evandro Carvalho spoke highly of China’s goal of achieving common prosperity, which is one of the key features of the country’s modernisation. WATCH:
Reading Time: 9 minutes Speaking at the 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan yesterday (September 16), Chinese President Xi Jinping called for…
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) students, parents and teachers anxiously await the public release of regional examination body CXC’s 2022 grades, the third of the pandemic era. This academic year has…
Reading Time: 4 minutes By 2030, changing temperatures could push three million people a year into extreme poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean. But also by 2030, the path towards decarbonisation could create…
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: 8 minutes The following is Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ address to the nation in commemoration of Independence Day, August 6, 2022: My fellow Jamaicans, this Independence Day is especially significant; it is…
Reading Time: 5 minutes The following is a statement by Chinese Ambassador to Jamaica Chen Daojiang in response to US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan earlier this week: On August…
Reading Time: 8 minutes Prime Minister of Jamaica Andrew Holness celebrates his 50th birthday today (July 22), a significant milestone in the life of a man that has shaped the country in the opening…
Reading Time: 4 minutes It has been a busy opening month for Chen Daojiang, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Jamaica, as the newly appointed envoy presented his credentials to Government leaders…
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…