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This file photo shows firearms seized at Freeport wharf in Montego Bay, St James.

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang needs to be more explicit about the targeted approaches which he says Government is using to tackle the illicit trade in illegal firearms and drugs. Dr Chang cited as evidence of a more robust approach to...
Jamaica Tallawahs’ spinner Chris Green (right) is congratulated by teammates after picking up a wicket during their opening CPL encounter against the St Lucia Kings.

The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is in its big week heading towards a Guyana vs Trinidad game that will determine whether it is a victory for ‘chicken curry’ or ‘curry chicken’. Or neither if, as my Jamaican friends believe, the game will go to...
A protester holds up a machete as a symbol of self-defence against gangs, during a protest against gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in August.

Recent findings by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) ring alarm bells for the global community: democratic governance is under threat, with an increasing number of people subjected to authoritarian regimes...

The People’s National Party (PNP) and its leader, Mark Golding, may finally have appreciated that the best path for returning to government isn’t to hope that the current one implodes, or merely rant about its failures and mistakes – real or...

We are at the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly which actually began on September 5. The president of this session is Ambassador Dennis Francis, Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago. As preparations continued for the high-level...

“The JDF assisted in national water-supply development projects in Jamaica from 1983-85 with the construction of a major water pipeline from Yallahs … to the Mona Reservoir in St Andrew” – JDF historical accomplishments Crime and violence in...

While he may indeed have been rebutting domestic critics of Jamaica’s economic relationship with China, Prime Minister Andrew Holness was likely to have also been addressing the United States. It was a measured affirmation of the island’s right...

It’s been a minute since we spent quality time in Apocrypha, our favourite fantasyland where all politicians are friends and Oma D’unn solves political problems by parable. Apocrypha’s Finance Minister Highyell Cluck was beside himself with...

The Jamaica Red Poll Cattle breed is a successful joint product of the public and private sectors of Jamaica, with the public sector having contributed through a critical mass of professional and technical personnel, as well as policy directives,...

As Prime Minister Andrew Holness said, good roads, such as the 23-kilometre addition of the tolled east-west corridor of Highway 2000 that was opened last week, are important to the country’s economic growth and development. “Good infrastructure...
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