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Retention of tourism dollar lowest in the Caribbean

Caribbean tourism leaders are pushing for urgent action to reduce industry leakages that continue to drain billions from regional economies despite record visitor arrivals.
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ODPP returns environmental prosecutions in parish courts to clerks

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has withdrawn from prosecuting environmental matters at the parish court level, returning those cases, including part-heard trials, to clerks…
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Jamaican business icon and ICWI founder Dennis Lalor dies

Prime Minister  DrAndrew Holness has led tributes to businessman and philanthropist Dennis Lalor following his death, describing him as a “visionary businessman” whose contributions helped shape…
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Near-miss tragedy after 5-y-o falls into manhole at school 

A Manchester family is breathing a sigh of relief after their five-year-old child escaped serious injuries following a fall into a manhole at the New Forest Primary and Infant school in the parish on…
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No red flags for CMU’s chief finance officials’ over compliance to institution’s laws 

A senior official in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service yesterday conceded that he had no evidence that the chief financial officers at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) failed to…
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Fare fight - Phillips puts proposals on table salvage ‘decaying’ public transport system

Opposition spokesman on Transport Mikael Phillips says the Government’s failure to craft and implement a coherent transport policy in the last 10 years has led to an “embarrassing spectacle” of state…
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St Catherine Municipal Corporation to set up ethics committee after Rude Boy billboard controversy

The St Catherine Municipal Corporation has announced the establishment of an ethics committee to guide how billboards are displayed across the parish, following public controversy over a Rude Boy…
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Dean Jones | Jamaica’s hurricane recovery questions are getting harder to ignore

The release of the Auditor General’s audit into Jamaica’s Hurricane Melissa relief response has triggered uncomfortable but increasingly unavoidable questions about how the country manages disaster…
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JTA targeting September launch for critical illness insurance plan

President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Mark Malabver, says the organisation is aiming to have a proposed critical illness insurance plan, being developed in partnership with Sagicor…