Dr Nigel Clarke, minister of finance and the public service, opened the 2023-2024 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday and Our Today caught up with those who were present to hear how the Government plans to fund Jamaica’s first ever trillion-dollar Budget.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe new 18-member Cabinet of the Holness administration is expected to cost taxpayers more than $421 million each year in salaries. The 18 government ministers were officially sworn into office…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe major falling out between Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake and Senior Superintendent of Police Wayne Cameron has taken an ugly turn, with the CEO and Founder of Nationwide News…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe People’s National Party (PNP) has voiced strong opposition to the reappointment of Marisa Dalrymple-Phillibert and Juliette Holness to the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives. PNP Chairperson…
Reading Time: 2 minutesJamaica’s political and local government circles are united in grief following the sudden death of Councillor Patrick Forrester, representative of the Petersfield Division in Central Westmoreland, in a motor vehicle…
Reading Time: < 1 minutePatrick Forrester, People’s National Party (PNP) councillor for the Petersfield Division in Westmoreland, died in a motor vehicle crash on Wednesday afternoon.
Reports are that Forrester was travelling with three others along a road in Whithorn, Westmoreland, when the vehicle went out of control, veered off the roadway, and plunged over a precipice.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTikTok’s US business would be controlled by an investor consortium including Oracle (ORCL), Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz under a framework the US and China are finalising as talks shift into high gear.
The arrangement, discussed by US and Chinese negotiators in Madrid this week, would create a new US entity to operate the app, with US investors holding a roughly 80 per cent stake and Chinese shareholders owning the rest.
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