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March 9, 2026
Taxing manufacturers not a recovery strategy, says JMEA
The Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) is expressing serious concern over the government’s decision to expand the Environmental Protection Levy to 100 per cent of manufacturers’…
March 9, 2026
UDC intensifies marketing drive to boost foreign, local visits to Dunn’s River Falls
The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is seeking to strengthen its strategic marketing of Dunn’s River Falls and Park in St Ann through a multi-channel campaign designed to drive increased…
March 9, 2026
Holness to receive AFUWI Legacy Award
The American Foundation for The University of the West Indies (AFUWI) is set to honour Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness with the Legacy Award, one of the organisation’s highest honours, at its 29th…
March 9, 2026
Police investigate an explosion outside US Embassy in Oslo
OSLO (AP): Police in Norway were investigating an explosion early Sunday outside the US Embassy in Oslo, the capital of the Scandinavian country, officials said. No injuries were reported. Police…
March 9, 2026
Iran hit a desalination plant, stoking fears of attacks on civilian sites
DUBAI (AP): Bahrain accused Iran of striking a desalination plant on Sunday, raising fears that civilian infrastructure may become fair game in the war, as Iran’s president vowed to expand the…
March 9, 2026
Twelve years on, renewed hunt for missing Flight MH370 comes up empty
KUALA LUMPUR (AP): Twelve years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people aboard, a renewed deep-sea search in the southern Indian Ocean has so far failed to locate the missing…
March 9, 2026
Editorial | Building Jamaica’s creative economy
The staging of the Lost in Time reggae festival last weekend was more than a well-produced entertainment event. It demonstrated what becomes possible when Jamaican creativity is matched by…
March 9, 2026
Ruthlyn James | When the neurodivergent brain meets the playing field
In the wider sporting world, a quiet paradox is unfolding. Some of our most explosive, focused and instinctive performers on the field are the very same young people struggling to keep pace in the…
March 9, 2026
The silent threat
The perception that agricultural theft, commonly known in Jamaica as praedial larceny, is a “lesser” offence or a “survival tactic” is a dangerous fallacy that undermines the rule of law and national…