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Mark Shields, former deputy commissioner of police.

Security expert and former deputy commissioner of police, Mark Shields, has labelled the Caribbean Arms Trafficking Causes Harm (CATCH) Act, introduced in the United States (US) Congress to curb illicit arms trafficking from the US into the region...
CBFFAJ President Clive Coke

Dubbing the Jamaica Customs Agency's (JCA) new Contactless Clearance policy illegal and unconstitutional, the Customs Brokers...
Two Buds Dispensary

The Bronx is poised for a historic moment as the Miller brothers, hailing from Jamaica, hold the grand opening of their state-of-the-art cannabis retail store in New York State. Known as Two Buds Dispensary, the store is located on East 241 Street...

According to Dr Cheryl McLaughlin, deputy managing director of the National Training and Programmes Division of the HEART/NSTA Trust, there’s no longer any justification for Jamaicans to view the Trust as an organisation whose sole purpose is to...

THE FOUR women charged in connection with the multimillion-dollar fraud racket uncovered at Sagicor Bank in 2022 are to return to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on September 17, for plea and case management hearing. Alysia Moulton White, a...

Former Solicitor General Michael Hylton, King’s Counsel (KC), says the public service, which has a carefully constructed disciplinary procedure in relation to public servants, does not contemplate that politicians such as the Speaker of the House...

AFTER HOLDING two reports from the Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) for more than two months, Speaker of the House of Representatives Juliet Holness yesterday yielded to unrelenting calls from...

Despite spending some $371.8 million of taxpayers’ money to lease two properties over a three-year period, Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) failed to occupy the buildings up to August 31 last year. The report was tabled in Parliament yesterday...

FINANCE MINISTER Dr Nigel Clarke closed the Budget Debate yesterday, firing several salvos at Opposition Leader Mark Golding, calling his criticism of the Government’s tax-free financial blueprint for the coming financial year “deceptive”. Golding...

The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says it will be closely monitoring the Rio Cobre Water Treatment Plant project in Content, St Catherine, to ensure that customers get the best rates possible. Prime Minister Andrew Holness earlier this...
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