Jamaica
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Caribbean targets 47% renewables by 2027
KINGSTON, Jamaica – CARIBBEAN Community (Caricom) energy ministers have approved an initial target of 47 per cent renewable energy contribution to total electricity generation in the region by 2027. The ministers approved the target last week in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, at the special meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Energy. They also…
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Jamaicans, Guyanese top list of CARICOM nationals denied entry to Barbados
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaican and Guyanese citizens account for the vast majority of CARICOM nationals who have been refused entry into Barbados over the last five years, according to statistics compiled by immigration officials there. However, the statistics, which are among the evidence tendered before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the Shanique Myrie case, have shown that the…
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Jamaica debt exchange affects Sagicor
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The fallout from Jamaica’s recently approved debt exchange arrangement has hit at least one of Barbados’ biggest financial institutions. Sagicor Financial Corporation, which has hundreds of millions of dollars in investments in Jamaica, had some of its companies placed “under review with negative implications” for its financial strength rating by international insurance rating company A.M. Best Co.…
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Jamaica’s cancer programme under review
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has arrived here to carry out a comprehensive evaluation of Jamaica’s cancer control capacity in the areas of cancer planning, cancer information, prevention, diagnosis and treatment, palliative care, and training. The delegation is expected to make recommendations to the authorities following its review. Health Minister Dr. Fenton…
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‘A huge sacrifice’ – PM lauds public sector for showing concern for national interest
KINGSTON, Jamaica- THE NATIONAL Housing Trust (NHT) could be called upon by the Government to assist in ensuring the success of the economic programme Jamaica is pursuing with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announced at Jamaica House yesterday that the Government would be making concessions, through its agencies, to public-sector workers who have agreed to…
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Chávez’s death brings hope, uncertainty to oil patch
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Venezuela's oil production is poised to reverse a dramatic decline that has seen exports fall by nearly half during Hugo Chávez's time as president. Following Chávez's death Tuesday, Venezuela, which is a member of OPEC and sits on the world's second-largest oil reserves, faces near-term political uncertainty that could bring further turmoil to its oil industry. And…
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EDITORIAL – Life after Chávez
KINGSTON, Jamaica – AS WRENCHING as it may still have been for his mass of supporters around the world, few could claim that Tuesday's death of Hugo Chávez, the charismatic and controversial president of Venezuela, had been entirely unexpected. There was a sense that statements in recent days by his deputy, Nicolas Maduro, about the deteriorated state of Chávez's health…
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Jamaica turned back as many CARICOM nationals as Barbados, CCJ told
KINGSTON, Jamaica – A senior Jamaican immigration official yesterday conceded, during the Shanique Myrie trial before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), that there was no significant disparity in the number of Caribbean nationals denied entry to Barbados in the last five years when compared to Jamaica. The admission by Ephieum Allen, the acting deputy director for immigration at the…
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EDITORIAL – Jamaica must stand for democracy, free speech
KINGSTON, Jamaica -There was a fair bit of chest-thumping by the Government recently over Reporters without Borders' ranking of Jamaica as the leading country for press freedom in the Western Hemisphere and 13th globally. The Simpson Miller administration interpreted the rating as a vindication of its own commitment to freedom and democracy and currency in which it can trade. This…
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