Inside Government with PoliticsNY: A Q&A with State Senator Toby Stavisky

Inside Government is a Q&A series that gives New Yorkers a glimpse inside the role of the elected officials who represent them. This edition of Inside Government with PoliticsNY features New York State Senator Toby Stavisky. Senator Stavisky...

Dolla floating another bond

Microlender Dolla Financial Services Limited is raising $1 billion on the public debt market to expand its loan portfolio and refinance existing debt. The company has the option to upsize the offer to $1.5 billion, contingent on market demand. The...

UDC says access to Little Dunn's River free

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is emphasising that access to Little Dunn’s River in St Ann is free of charge and any attempt by unauthorised persons to collect money, obstruct entry, or operate businesses on the property without...

Bermuda head to Jamaica with new man in engine room

Created: Oct 14, 2025 08:00 AM Jake Littlejohn has been promoted to assistant coach of Bermuda Bermuda are heading into their World Cup qualifier against Jamaica amid upheaval among the squad and backroom staff. The island’s best player, Nahki...

Motorists urged to step up security this Heroes weekend

Motorists are being urged to take extra precautions on the roads this Heroes weekend as recent data show sharp increases in motor-vehicle collisions and thefts across Jamaica. “Long weekends and major events provide criminals with opportunity, not...

Alaska vs. Caribbean: Which Cruise Fits Your Travel Personality?

Picture this: The hum of the engines beneath your feet, the salt air whipping through your hair, and that intoxicating promise of somewhere new on the horizon. There’s something about standing on a ship’s deck that makes all your cares go away. Or...

BACK TO TALKS

Consultations are set to resume on the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill next month in a bid to advance the legislation, which stalled earlier this year because of objections from certain groups. Education Minister Senator Dana Morris Dixon said...

Post-mortem progress

FAULKNER... we have seen tremendous improvements IN an early toast to the four-month-old Government forensic pathology autopsy suite, Commissioner of the Independent Commission of Investigations (Indecom) Hugh Faulkner says the agency is no longer...

Honorebel, Alison Hinds, Ackah Dan for Roll Your Waist Remix

Honorebel (left) and Alison Hinds. KINGSTON, Jamaica — International recording artiste Honorebel has stepped into the world of Soca with his debut soca track, Roll Your Waist Remix, featuring the legendary Alison Hinds and dynamic...

Defence attorney wants Ruel Reid, Fritz Pinnock and co-accused fraud trial dismissed, cites issues with indictment

Defence attorney Hugh Wildman this afternoon called for the dismissal of the fraud trial involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid, citing what he described as a major judicial error. Wildman, who represents former Caribbean Maritime...

Jamaica calls for UK special visa for Caribbean service professionals

Jamaica’s Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill, is urging the United Kingdom to explore a special visa scheme aimed at easing the movement of Jamaican and Caribbean service professionals within the UK. -...

Three researchers nab Nobel economics prize for explaining ‘creative destruction’

Three researchers who probed the process of business innovation won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for explaining how new products and inventions promote economic growth and human welfare, even as they leave older companies in the...

First witness called in Ruel Reid and co trial, defence says case ‘null’

Ruel Reid arrives at the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court, Thursday, October 16, for his fraud trial. (Photo: Garfield Robinson) THE court heard from one witness in the fraud trial of former Education Minister Ruel Reid and his co-accused on...

Market rewards Paramount Trading comeback in first quarter

Investors responding positively to Paramount Trading Jamaica Limited’s turnaround performance in its first quarter ended August. PTL shares closed at $0.94 on the junior market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Wednesday, after tripping the...

‘You don’t have to suffer in silence’

Dr Dorethy Garvey, consultant psychiatrist, speaking with the Jamaica Observer on World Mental Health Day last Friday at Mandeville Regional Hospital. (Photo: Kasey Williams) MANDEVILLE, Manchester —Against the backdrop of recent suspected cases...

Defence seeks dismissal of Reid trial, citing fatal flaw

Senior Parish Judge Sanchia Burrell is expected to deliver a ruling today on an application by the defence seeking to have the fraud trial involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid thrown out, citing a critical error in the indictment order....

OPINION: Antigua, Island of US Defense!

After World War II, the U.S. with the permission of the UK occupied lands in and around the North Eastern region of Antigua, as their headquarters of protection of their shores facing the Caribbean Sea. Jamaica, St.Lucia, Grenada and Trinidad had...

NWC staff receive leak detection training from UTech

Twenty employees at the National Water Commission (NWC) are now enrolled at the University of Technology Jamaica (UTech), where they are completing a course in Leak Detection Technologies. The five-week course, which begun on September 17 is being...

STATIN reports 2.1 per cent inflation rate for September

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is reporting that the point-to-point domestic inflation rate for September stood at 2.1 per cent, marking a modest increase of 0.9 percentage points from the 60-year record low of 1.2 per cent recorded...

Talks of Mavado concert

Dancehall artiste David ‘Mavado’ Brooks has returned to Jamaica for the first time in several years, following the vacating of a 2018 warrant that had been issued for his arrest. Superintendent Randy Sweeney, head of the St Andrew North Division,...