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KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Agricultural Produce (Amendment) Act, which will facilitate the imposition of harsher penalties for praedial larceny, was passed in the Senate on Friday. The maximum fine for b...

There were no hitches. No urgent bathroom calls. No apparent geopolitical diversions. The communication lines between the foreign ministry in downtown Kingston and the UN headquarters at 405 E 45th Street, Manhattan, New York, seemed to work. This...

Jamaica today signed the Samoa Agreement. The signing was done at the headquarters of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) in Brussels, Belgium by Jamaica's Ambassador to Belgium and Representative to the European...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaican Government on Thursday signed the Samoa Agreement at the headquarters of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) in Brussels, Belgium. J...

IT now appears that security concerns — including the increasingly fractious dispute between Guyana and Venezuela — were at the top of the agenda during Prime Minister Andrew Holness's just conclu...

THE Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society (JCHS) in the wake of last Thursday's confirmation by Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith that Jamaica now intends t...

CARICOM Heads of Government will meet on Friday to discuss the Guyana-Venezuela dispute over the Essequibo region. Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who informed that he will be attending the meeting, said the Government firmly believes in the...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Caricom Heads of Government will meet on Friday to discuss the Guyana-Venezuela dispute over the Essequibo region. According to a release on Thursday, Jamaica's Prime Minister Andr...

Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States (US) Audrey Marks will host Prime Minister Andrew Holness on her monthly series, L et’s Connect with Ambassador Marks, tomorrow night at 7 EDT. Holness arrived in Washington on Monday evening and was met on...

Jamaica is the latest country among 24 nominees to have been elected to the council of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) as a Category 'C' member for a period of two years. This comes on the heels of the island's successful...