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April 7, 2026 by Livern Barrett

Two decades later, disbarred attorney’s complaint against panel member fails

A former attorney has lost his bid to pursue a conflict-of-interest complaint against a member of the disciplinary panel that ruled over 20 years ago that he should be struck off the list of lawyers…
April 7, 2026

Growth & Jobs | JN Life urges Jamaicans to boost retirement savings amid longer life expectancy

Othneil Blagrove, chief, sales and marketing manager at JN Life Insurance Company, is encouraging Jamaicans who participate in individual retirement schemes to increase their contributions to the…
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April 7, 2026

Shipping Schedule

MSC JAMAICA KINGSTON X-PRESS MOY 08/04 TZINI 09/04 LILA HAREN 10/04 GREEN FOREST 11/04 ZIM MOUNT RAINIER 11/04 CMA CGM SURABAYA 12/04 FALMOUTH 13/04 CMA CGM ARICA 13/04 X-PRESS MOY 13/04 …
A Rose Gardens resident engages Training and Employment Lead Kelly Griffith during the feedback session at the Rose Gardens Community Town Hall, organised by Project STAR.
April 7, 2026

Growth & Jobs | Project STAR’s training, employment opportunities lift Rose Gardens community

More than J$1.8 million in startup support has already been invested through Project STAR’s nano grant programme, a major highlight shared at the Project STAR Town Hall Meeting held in the Rose Garden…
Opposition Leader Mark Golding
April 7, 2026

Gordon Robinson | The essence of bronze

Political temperatures overheated in Apocrypha, our favourite fantasyland beyond the stars. An alleged tax evasion scheme, with Apocrypha’s main public hospital’s help, resulted in fingers being…
Dr Velma Ricketts Walker, CEO and commissioner of Customs.
April 7, 2026

Shipping sector marks the tenure of Dr Velma Ricketts Walker at Jamaica Customs

Leadership in public institutions is rarely neat and even less often universally agreed upon. It is tested in moments of pressure, shaped by competing priorities, and ultimately measured over time. As…
Prime Minister, Dr Andrew Holness, delivers his contribution to the 2026/27 Budget Debate.
April 7, 2026

Editorial | Making NaRRA better

In Jamaica, public institutions often fail because of bad policy design. They are given sweeping mandates, blurred lines of authority, weak performance systems, and too much dependence on the supposed…
A Palestinian, wounded in a settler rampage, at the Palestine Medical Complex in the West Bank city of Ramallah, in April 2024.
April 7, 2026

Michael Abrahams | Israel’s Palestinian purge prescription

On March 30, 1976, Israeli police killed six unarmed Palestinian citizens of Israel and injured over 100 others while they were protesting the state’s confiscation of nearly 5,000 acres of Palestinian…
Letters
April 7, 2026

We shouldn’t surrender our beaches

THE EDITOR, Madam: I commend Danielle Archer for her searing and nationally vital column in The Sunday Gleaner of April 5 titled ‘Jamaica’s Unspoken Emergency’. In a time of unsettling civic…