Month: January 2021
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Business
Jamaica pensions fraud: millions ‘paid’ to the dead
The Jamaica Gleaner has reported that the island’s Accountant General’s Department has been placed under the microscope following revelations that…
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Business
UN agencies want urgent steps by regional gov’ts to push back food insecurity
A new report by five key United Nations agencies has painted a worrying picture on the likely state of food…
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Business
‘Oil-rich’ poor African countries being frustrated by terrorism
Oil & gas sectors in various countries have long been a strategic target for insurgents seeking to undermine the economies…
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Business
COVID-19 Party Pooper: Carnival, Mash Street vendors will lose out ‘big time.’
The imminent arrival of the Carnival season in Trinidad & Tobago would appear to be posing challenges for the twin-island…
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Business
Sonya Benn–Jordan’s Gifted Hands
The Stabroek Business’ ongoing journalistic interventions into the ‘goings on’ in the lives of the proprietors of many of the…
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Business
Covid 19 crisis: Region heading for ‘staggering’ school dropout rate – UNDP
The possible long-term socio-economic impact of the protracted absence of the majority of the region’s children from school could be…
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Business
Sound food vending businesses should get $1M growth grants – Andrea Douglas-John
John’s Cake Decoration & Bakery Service is a modest home-based enterprise, a typical local micro-business, run from 347 Recht-door-Zee, La…
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Daily
Breaking the chains of Caribbean tourism Pt. 2
Being one of the largest industries in the world and a significant driver of unfettered development across the Caribbean, there…
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My life expectancy: Pity I’ll never… – Concerning Sugar, Oil and Gas
Please save our, Brigadier’s Park! and these Gorillas! Hello friends – both “regulars” and newcomers to this man-in-the–street column –…
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News
Cops to charge three over murders of Henry cousins
The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised the police to charge three persons with murdering Isaiah…
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