KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has blasted the Portia Simpson Miller led administration saying the country is worse off than when it demitted office in 2012.
Responding to the J$521 billion (One Jamaica dollar = US$0.01 cents) tax free budget presented by Finance Minister Dr. Peter Phillips last week, former finance minister Audley Shaw said under his stewardship between 2007-2011, the economy was in a much better state.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - When you're talking about rum, how much does the Caribbean really matter? For the rum world, it's a more serious question than it sounds, and the answer exposes a schism in the industry, a divide between massive producers who value uniformity in a global market and smaller players and connoisseurs who prefer nuanced production that reflects the time and place a rum is made. A walk down the rum aisle of a liquor store sees this played out.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - AUSTIN 'Jack' Warner, who on Monday felt compelled to quit as Trinidad and Tobago's minister of national security, following scathing findings of a CONCACAF-authorised probe, seems to be the kind of politician one could either easily admire or strongly dislike.
His name is virtually synonymous with management of regional/international football and there are those who consider him to be an enigma in a riddle.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government, insisting it is committed to facilitating the media in its work, Monday said it would hold discussions with the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) and other media stakeholders “on the matter of protocols governing media interviews with the Prime Minister”. The announcement by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) follows criticism by the PAJ over what it termed the deliberate efforts to shield Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller from facing answering questions from the media on current and controversial national issues. .

KINGSTON, Jamaica - For decades, wherever he has stood, especially with regard to football, Austin 'Jack' Warner left a stench - of the type most people associate with corruption. That, of course, has never been proven where such things are determined - in courts of law. What was unique about Mr Warner, though, is that those closest to him seemed to lack the olfactory capacity for his range of scents. That deficiency, Mr Warner seemed to assume, was universal, particularly in Trinidad and Tobago, his home. Accusations against him were to be denied and toughed out. Life would go on.