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March 10, 2026
Growth & Jobs | JBDC launches ‘Biz Wiz’ online platform to boost entrepreneurship
The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), officially launched its online learning platform, designed to transform businesses through entrepreneurship education. Dubbed ‘JBDC Biz Wiz’, the…
March 10, 2026
Growth & Jobs | J’can chocolatiers take fine cocoa products to global stage at Chocoa Amsterdam
Three Jamaican chocolatiers travelled to CHOCOA 2026, one of the largest global chocolate tradeshows and part of Amsterdam Cocoa Week, to promote Jamaican-made, single origin, fine-flavoured chocolate…
March 10, 2026
Chief of Defence staff announces memoir
Vice Admiral Antonette Wemyss-Gorman, Chief of Defence Staff of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), has announced the forthcoming publication of her first memoir, Life, Duty and Command – a personal…
March 10, 2026
Immigration Corner | Resuming British citizenship after a renunciation
Dear Mr Bassie, I would like to know if it is possible to resume your British nationality after having renounced it. If possible could you please explain the process. Thanks. J.S. Dear J.S., In some…
March 10, 2026
Immigration Corner | Marine engineer wants to join Canada’s military. Is it possible?
Dear Miss Powell, I am an engineer with a master’s degree, and I would like to become a permanent resident of Canada and serve in the Canadian Armed Forces. What are my chances? ME Dear ME,
March 10, 2026
Immigration Corner | Can my son file for me?
Dear Mrs Walker-Huntington, I was living in America in the 1990s when my sister gave my phone number to a woman who was involved with drug trafficking. I got caught up in a conspiracy with this woman…
March 9, 2026
by Kimone Francis
Forgotten learners
Months after Hurricane Melissa tore through western Jamaica, administrators and students at several special-needs institutions remain in a desperate battle for survival, grappling with a sluggish…
March 9, 2026
by Tanesha Mundle
Defence demands witness’s evidence struck from record in murder case against cops
Defence attorney Hugh Wildman has urged the court to exclude the testimony of a key prosecution witness in the trial of six policemen charged in connection with the January 2013 fatal shooting of…
March 9, 2026
Rush at eye clinic amid impending departure of Cuban medical workers
A large crowd turned up at the eye clinic at St Joseph’s Hospital in St Andrew on Monday morning as patients rushed to seek treatment from Cuban health professionals ahead of their departure from…