PM breaks ground for Brookside Estate Housing development in St James

Reading Time: 3 minutesPrime Minister Dr Andrew Holness broke ground for the Brookside Estate Housing Development in Spot Valley, St. James, which will deliver 418 housing units to Jamaicans on Friday (April 25)….

White House blasts Amazon for ‘hostile and political’ tariff move

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon is denying reports that it will display the impact of tariffs next to the price of products on its e-commerce site, which drew blasts from the Trump administration on Tuesday.

It is reported that Amazon said it was never considering adding the additional cost caused by tariffs next to the price of goods on its main website but rather was contemplating doing so on its low-cost Amazon Haul site.

PM: Government lowering the cost of doing business and tackling crime

Reading Time: 5 minutesPrime Minister Andrew Holness said the government is bringing down the cost of living and the cost of doing business on the fiscal side and increasing the attractiveness of Jamaica as a destination while tackling crime, which is a social factor.

Holness also stated that it is important that Jamaicans recognise that Jamaica did have, in the early days, a period when manufacturing boomed and a fairly long period when the state was not able to compete.

‘JTC Act represents decisive step to modernise governance framework of teaching profession’

Reading Time: 2 minutesGovernment Senator Kavan Gayle said the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Act, 2025, represents a decisive step towards modernising the governance framework of the teaching profession in Jamaica. Making his contribution…

‘Farmers are the heart of Jamaica’s hot pepper industry’

Reading Time: 3 minutesPablo Jenkins, project donor representative from the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), highlighted that farmers are at the heart of advancing the hot pepper industry of Jamaica.

The three-year project aims to improve compliance with food safety and plant health requirements along the hot pepper value chain to increase production and export to international markets. “The STDF is a global partnership that helps developing countries improve their food safety and animal and plant health capacity in order to meet international sanitary and private sanitary requirements,” Jenkins said.

Organised crime and violence holding back Latin America and the Caribbean

Reading Time: 2 minutesOrganised crime and violence have become a central obstacle to development in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the World Bank’s latest regional economic review. The report titled ‘Organized Crime…