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Published on Jan 16, 2025

PPC: Advancing Efficiency and Integrity in Public Procurement

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) continues to champion transparency, accountability, and efficiency in Jamaica’s public procurement processes. Executive Director Mrs Nadia Morris is highlighting that as the safeguard in the acquisition of goods, …

Source: Jamaica Information Service - Gov't Institution
Published on Jan 16, 2025

House Approves Amendments to NRCA And WLP Acts to Increase Fines

The House of Representatives approved amendments to the Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA) Act and the Wild Life Protection (WLP) Act on January 14, to allow for an increase in fines and related custodial sentences. Piloting the legislation, …

Source: Jamaica Information Service - Gov't Institution
Published on Jan 16, 2025

The Crazy True Story of How Jimmy Buffett, and Bono Was Nearly Shot By Jamaican Police

In 1996 an unusual and somewhat dramatic incident occurred that would later inspire musician and Margaritaville founder Jimmy Buffett to pen the famous song “Jamaica Mistaica.” The event, which involved a mistaken identity and a misunderstanding, remains …

Source: Jamaicans.com - Neutral
Published on Jan 17, 2025

Man gunned down after arriving home in Portmore

A man was gunned down outside his home in Cumberland, Portmore, St Catherine on Thursday. It is reported that Garth Taylor pulled up and parked at his Potterdale Drive premises when men on a motorcycle came up and opened fire. Taylor was shot repeatedly. …

Source: The Gleaner - Neutral
Published on Jan 17, 2025

World Bank says global economy is growing steadily, but not fast enough to help ease poverty

WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy is growing steadily in the face of war, protectionist trade policies and high interest rates. It just isn’t growing fast enough to bring relief to the world’s poorest, the World Bank said Thursday in its latest …

Source: The Gleaner - Neutral
Published on Jan 17, 2025

Benson Ford in St Andrew to be closed to correct defects

The Benson Ford in St Andrew will be reduced to single lane traffic on Friday and thereafter closed for a week as the National Works Agency (NWA) undertakes repairs to correct defects in the concrete slab. The defects are in relation to the $19.2 million …

Source: The Gleaner - Neutral
Published on Jan 17, 2025

PHOTOS: HEART/NSTA Trust’s Newport Campus Students Tour

Source: Jamaica Information Service - Gov't Institution
Published on Jan 16, 2025

Man charged for ex-girlfriend's death in Flat Bridge crash freed

Thirty-nine-year-old Vincent Dunn, who was charged for the death of his ex-girlfriend in a vehicular crash in the Bog Walk Gorge, was freed in the St Catherine Circuit Court, after the Crown conceded it could not mount a successful prosecution. When the …

Source: The Gleaner - Neutral
Published on Jan 16, 2025

Some immigrants are already leaving US in ‘self-deportations’ as Trump’s threats loom

TRACY, Calif. (AP) — Michel Bérrios left the United States a few days before the new year, giving President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign for mass deportations a small victory before they even started. A former leader of a Nicaraguan student uprising, …

Source: The Gleaner - Neutral
Published on Jan 16, 2025

PHOTO: Executives of Frances Maude Associates Call on Minister Samuda

Source: Jamaica Information Service - Gov't Institution