Economy of Jamaica

A north coast-based businessman has won the $163 million Super Lotto jackpot using numbers his father has been faithfully buying for years.www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/24/super-lotto-player-wins-163m-jackpot-using-dads-lucky-numbers/

A 25-year-old security guard has been removed from The University of the West Indies Mona campus after it is alleged that he attempted to abduct and rape an ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/24/security-guard-removed-post-uwi-following-rape-abduction-allegations/

Maintenance work is being carried out in an area adjoining the UWI Mona campus, where a nine-year-old girl was physically assaulted on Monday ... Show more   #GLNRToday

A mother has been left numb and heartbroken following the shooting death of her 23-year-old daughter in an alleged domestic dispute in the United States on ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/14/mother-heartbroken-daughter-killed-domestic-dispute-us/

Bloodied but unbowed. Jamaica’s first woman Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn walked away from the job Sunday ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/22/paula-llewellyn-walks/

Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Alando Terrelonge says a member of his team was responsible for posting a photo to his Instagram account with images of former ... Show more   #GLNRToday

The planned divestment of Jamaica Mortgage Bank, via the stock market, contemplates a carve out of a large chunk of the bank for sale to a key investor prior ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240424/goj-selling-40-mortgage-bank-prior-ipo   #GLNRFinance

Earlier this month, Jamaica’s Taino chief, Kasike Kalaan Nibonrix Kaiman, gave a presentation titled, ‘Stories as medicine: Taino and African Healing and the ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240418/jamaicas-taino-chief-speaks-abroad-stories-medicine   #GLNRToday

Adidas’ reported $5.9-billion offer to sponsor Jamaica’s athletics programme is the latest in a decade-long courtship of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/12/decade-long-chase/

A 15 per cent salary increase accepted by academic staff of The University of the West Indies will not be paid this week as initially agreed on after the ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240423/salary-setback-uwis-academic-staff   #GLNRToday

Reigning 100 and 200 metres World Championships winner Noah Lyles has been confirmed to compete at the Racers Grand Prix, which was announced earlier today at ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/sports/20240416/noah-lyles-confirmed-racers-grand-prix   #GLNRSports

After five months of stonewalling, Juliet Holness, the Speaker, finally relented on Tuesday and tabled the opinions by the Attorney General’s Chambers on the ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20240425/editorial-speakers-right-move   #GLNROped

The Jill Stewart MoBay City Run takes place on Sunday, May 5, 2024, at the Old Hospital Park in Montego Bay at 6 A.M.#MobayCityRun #Run #Walk #Charity #RunforEducation

Opposition Leader Mark Golding says Attorney General Derrick McKoy and Justice Minister Delroy Chuck should resign for saying Paula Llewellyn remains director ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240421/golding-demands-resignation-justice-minister-attorney-general-over-dpp-crisis   #GLNRToday

An illegal gun and a ballistic vest bearing the regulation number of a member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force were seized on the weekend ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240422/six-women-one-man-arrested-connection-submachine-gun-ballistic-vest-seizure   #GLNRToday

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has expressed disappointment over the length of time the first artisan village in Falmouth, Trelawny ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/22/pm-officially-opens-long-overdue-artisan-village-falmouth/

If you asked Brian Cuff, production lab coordinator, senior sports producer, and current adjunct lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240408/he-took-art-heart   #GLNRFeatures

An insurance agent employed to Sagicor insisted on Wednesday that he had numerous meetings with murder accused Omar Collymore and his now-deceased wife Simone ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/18/agent-says-collymore-knew-multimillion-dollar-insurance-policies/

Senior teacher at Alpha Infant School Sabrina Raymond-Hunter has endorsed the ‘ICHEETAH’ robot, a smart educational AI-powered tool that will advance the way ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/18/senior-teacher-endorses-robots-assisting-school/

Dinthill Technical High School won the 11th Jamaica Best School Band competition on Sunday at Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/16/dinthill-bands-it/

For 21-year-old aspiring artiste, TevinKingg, a career in music was never an option. In fact, the Maxfield/Central Village native said he always envisioned ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/25/maxfield-avenue-youth-hopes-fulfil-big-dreams-music-industry/

Great technical execution, great performances all around, visual presentation spot on and glitch free, and a gigantic stage that rivals any major music event ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/22/high-praises-fun-sonheadliner-kirk-franklin-brings-dance-party/

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) will be adding a second tower to its Nethersole Place headquarters, an investment necessitated by its expanding regulatory portfolio ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240414/twin-towers-boj   #GLNRFinance

State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Alando Terrelonge, says he regrets a series of posts made to his social media platforms in ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/17/terrelonge-says-regrets-posts-blocking-faces-former-jcan-prime-ministers/

Here’s What to Eat at @funinthesonfest! The @bestdressedja Fun in the Son Festival is hitting the National Stadium on April 20th ... Show more

Thieves have removed seven of 10 Jamaica Public Service (JPS)-installed street lights in Orange Bay, Western Hanover, once again ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240418/jps-introducing-technology-catch-thieves-pilfering-its-infrastructure   #GLNRToday

Themed in Africa 🔥 The Sagicor Corporate Awards, held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel this evening, saw the group’s membership exquisitely embracing the theme ... Show more   #OTeam   #AlwaysAhead   #SagicorGroup   #Sagicor   #CorporateAwards

Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Richard Byles has signalled for the first time that rate cuts could be on the horizon, and before the end of this year. www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/21/rate-cuts-year/

President Joe Biden's administration will help 50 countries, including Jamaica, identify and respond to infectious diseases ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/world-news/20240419/ja-among-50-countries-new-biden-administration-partnership-stifle-future   #GLNRToday

Shadow Minister of Information and Public Communication, Nekeisha Burchell is urging the government to quickly implement a social media policy with stringent ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/17/urgent-need-clear-govt-social-media-policy-opposition-says/

The World Bank's chief economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, William Maloney, says Jamaica, is expected to record economic growth of two per cent this ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240411/jamaica-set-record-two-cent-growth-year-world-bank   #GLNRToday

The Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH) is being hailed by a former beneficiary for “levelling the playing field” ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240419/former-path-beneficiary-uwi-doctoral-candidate   #GLNRFeatures

People's National Party constituency representative for St Catherine East Central, Raymond Pryce, has bashed a controversial social media post by Member of ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240417/pryce-bashes-terrelonge-controversial-social-media-post   #GLNRToday

Delon Williams, human resource assistant at the University of the West Indies, Mona, views the partial solar eclipse from the balcony of the Department of ... Show more   #GLNRPics

Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator Matthew Samuda has responded to videos being circulated on digital ... Show more

Member of Parliament for St Andrew Western Anthony Hylton took time to visit the Riverton Wellness Fair staged by JPS, recently ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/23/600-riverton-residents-benefit-jps-wellness-fair/

The Jamaica Court of Appeals will begin hearing arguments on June 10 to determine whether to order a retrial for Vybz Kartel and his co-accused in the murder ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/12/kartel-retrial-hearing-set-june-10/

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining Floyd Green says the Government is optimistic about the reopening of bauxite-alumina refinery Jiuquan Iron and ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/25/govt-optimistic-reopening-jisco-alpart-refinery/

Mona High School has been closed for Thursday, April 18 and Friday, April 19. Speaking with the Observer Online on Thursday ... Show more