Holness says pardon of Garvey a 'first step' toward total exoneration

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BPO sector rebounds to pre-COVID-19 level – Holness

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says Jamaica's business process outsourcing (BPO) sector has rebound to its pre-COVID-19 level, amid the ongoing pandemic. Speaking today at the virtual opening session of the third staging of Outsourcing 2...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Vaz shifted... Removed from land portfolio, given water and housing

In a statement Wednesday afternoon, Jamaica House said Prime Minister Andrew Holness has instead assigned him responsibility for the water and housing

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

400 ship workers tested for COVID-19

The taking of COVID-19 samples by the Ministry of Health and Wellness from Jamaican ship workers who arrived in the island on Tuesday is to go on break on

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Judicial Branch Revises Holiday Schedule for 2023-2024

Administrator of Courts Regina Petersen advises the general public and members of the Virgin Islands Bar of an update to the Judicial Branch of the Virgin Islands 2023/2024 holiday schedule to include the grant of administrative leave for non-essential government employees in the District of

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Jamaica

In September 2011, Prime Minister Bruce Golding resigned. Goldings political standing never recovered after his handling of the Christopher Coke case. For nine months, Golding resisted a request from the United States to hand over Coke. His resignation was seen as an effort to help the Jamaica

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Chakwera asks leaders to stop dividing Malawians Malawi 24 | Latest News from Malawi

President Lazarus Chakwera has underscored the need for leaders in the country to pursue peace instead of promoting division, resentment and disrespect among Malawians. Chakwera said this during the 2023 Umodzi Day celebrations which took place at Chilimampunga ground in Lilongwe. He added that

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‘Heinous’… Holness shocked by assassination of Haiti’s president

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has described the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and the wounding of his wife Martine in their home early Wednesday morning as heinous. Claude Joseph, the interim prime minister, confirmed...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Sunday Brew — May 31, 2020

If information which surfaced over last weekend that there could have been manipulation of Leon Bailey to openly criticise the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is true, then it would be most

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Johnson Smith refutes claims that SOEs/ZOSOs not working

Leader of Government Business in the Senate, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, assured the Senate on Friday that the Government is working towards introducing more zones of special operations

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‘Murder emergency’ as gangs spread wings - SOEs blanket Kingston as Gov’t vows to protect highway project from extortionists

The entire capital is now blanketed under SOEs as the Government moved to include Kingston Western and Central, pushing to 10 the total number of police divisions under emergency

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Gov't accuses Opposition of mischief in Senate

LEADER of Government Business in the Senate Kamina Johnson Smith yesterday accused the Opposition of mischief-making regarding the condition of Jamaicans who returned home on the Royal Caribbean cruise vessel Adventure of the Seas earlier this

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ZOSO imposed in Greenwich Town

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced a Zone of Special Operation (ZOSO) in Greenwich Town, St

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

'I am still trying to tell myself it is not true'

A week after Omari Stephens rushed from one end of the Corporate Area to “rescue” his mother, Susan Bogle, in August Town, St Andrew, after he was told shots were being fired at her residence, he confesses he is now living in a zone between shock and

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

2,300 Jamaicans return under re-entry programme

Prime Minister Andrew Holness, says, to date, 2,300 Jamaicans have entered the island under the Government’s re-entry programme at a cost of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Holness announces COVID screening for all incoming travellers this month

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that there will be mandatory COVID screening for all passengers arriving in Jamaica this

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island in the West Indies, 90 mi (145 km) south of Cuba and 100 mi (161 km) west of Haiti. It is a little smaller than Connecticut. The island is made up of coastal lowlands, a limestone plateau, and the Blue Mountains, a group of volcanic hills, in the

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Update: Statue rage - Government opens debate on removing monuments to colonial-era icons

As global anti-racism protests sparked by the killing of American George Floyd coalesce around the toppling of white-supremacy monuments, Jamaica’s Culture Minister Olivia Grange has opened the door for discussion on removing statues of colonial-era icons from public

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

After long wait, J'cans stranded in C'bean to be repatriated

CARIBBEAN Airlines will, as of this weekend, be operating flights for Jamaicans stranded in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, The Bahamas, and Antigua and Barbuda, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith has

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

BPOs want work-at-home extension

“A request has been made to the Government to continue with this facility until the end of 2020 so that sites can continue to practise social distancing, but more importantly, keep workers safe and employed,” said Gloria Henry, president of the GSAJ, formerly the Business Process Industry

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Help Cops Find Armed Former Firefighter Wanted for Attempted Murder on St. Croix – Virgin Islands Free Press

FREDERIKSTED — Police need your help to find a former firefighter who is wanted on St. Croix. Joseph Greaux, 39, of St. Thomas, is wanted for attempted murder on St. Croix, the...

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Walk good, Shahine

THE woman who changed the tide of losses for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) with an upset in a People's National Party (PNP) stronghold in St Ann North Eastern in 2001, Shahine Robinson, died at her family home in Claremont, St Ann, around midday yesterday, after a long battle with lung

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PM mum as watchdog demands Belnavis quit

Weeks after St Ann’s Bay Mayor Michael Belnavis became embroiled in controversy over his stewardship of municipal funds, climaxing last Thursday with a demolition related to building breaches, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has reserved comment until he has been fully

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaican ship workers begin disembarking in Falmouth

The first batch of the 1,044 Jamaican ship workers who returned to the island on Tuesday afternoon has departed for government quarantine centres in St Ann after being processed at the Falmouth cruise ship pier in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Holness: I’m no dictator - PM deflects accusation as Bunting goes on attack

Debating an extension of the states of emergency in the Kingston Western and Central police divisions yesterday, newly appointed Leader of Opposition Business Peter Bunting indicated that the Holness administration had chosen social control over social investment in tackling crime in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ministry of Education: Tech/voc training standardised across institutions

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News The Education Ministry said the five major existing technical vocational education and training (TVET) institutions will now be offering courses only in their specifically assigned sector or sub sector for sustainable

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Source: Trinidad News

PM ‘embarrassed’ by inhumane prison death, discloses proposal for new facility

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has revealed that the Government is now mulling a proposal for a new

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Thousands march in Cape Town in solidarity with Palestinians | Africanews

Thousands of people, led by clergy of different faiths, marched through the streets of Cape Town on Saturday in support of Palestinians in Gaza.

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Election ready - PNP gearing up if poll called after SOEs lifted

THE LEADERSHIP of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has declared itself fit and ready to challenge the ruling Jamaica Labour Party if Prime Minister Andrew Holness calls a general election shortly after winding up states of emergency (SOEs) across the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Holness administration declined UK prison offer, Phillips asserts

Leader of the Opposition, Dr Peter Phillip, says he strongly rejects claims from Prime Minister Andrew Holness that the United Kingdom prison offer to Jamaica was implicitly refused by the People’s National Party

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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