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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced the appointment of Kishan Khoday as Resident Representative for Jamaica. Khoday took office effective January 22. As resident representative based at the UNDP Multi-Country Office in...

In an unprecedented public revelation, Opposition Senator Lambert Brown on Friday shared details of a medical scare that brought him to death’s door last September, and used his contribution to the State of the Nation debate in the Upper House to talk about the shortcomings in Jamaica’s health-care system, in particular a lack of beds. But for the intervention of his daughter and two of his colleague Opposition senators, who...

Johnson Smith to pay official visit to Japan

Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamina Johnson Smith has held talks with US officials amid what she has described as Jamaica's concerns over the scope and extent of the recently issued travel advisory by Washington to Americans who...

A St Andrew mother is hysterical after almost two weeks of non-communication with her son, who last spoke to her from Mexico as he sought to travel with his child across the border illegally into the United States (US). Michelle Clarke*, who...

KINGSTON, Jamaica- The Government of Jamaica is set to welcome to the island, His Excellency Wang Yi, foreign minister of the People’s Republic of China later this month. According to a news release o...

The Senate has approved the Domestic Violence (Amendment) Act,  providing greater protection to victims of domestic violence. The new legislation provides increased penalties for breach of protection orders from a maximum of J$10,000 to a...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Members of the Senate passed the Domestic Violence (Amendment) Act on Thursday, December 21. The Act, which is slated to provide greater protection to victims of domestic violence,...

Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith says "there is no need to be concerned" that Jamaica was not present alongside several CARICOM leaders at Thursday's meeting between the presidents of Guyana and Venezuela over a border dispute....

Trinidad and Tobago (T...