ENTRY DENIED More Jamaicans were denied temporary resident visas for Canada than any other CARICOM country’s people, including Haiti, on the grounds of “misrepresentation”. Between January 2024 and May 31, 2025, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (...
Chinese labour dominates foreign nationals workforce Nearly four out of every 10 work permits approved by the Jamaican Government last year were for Chinese nationals, a new report has revealed. The Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) received a total of 5,651 work permit applications in...
Maitland’s delivery man says he was ‘last to know what was going on’ A Kingston delivery man hired by Constable Noel Maitland to remove a sofa from his apartment, testified on Monday that the lawman appeared surprised when informed that the police had seized his truck. According to the witness, Maitland later...
‘Clarendon shaped me’ As a little boy growing up in Clarendon, O’Rane Thomas came face to face with a reality no child wishes to encounter – the possibility of losing his left arm. Between the ages of three and seven, he suffered four upper-limb fractures. One injury...
Youth advocates back CARICOM plan for online safety law WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) has thrown its support behind CARICOM’s move to create a regional model law on digital safety, while calling for urgent action, stiffer penalties for offenders, and the creation of a...
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ law bars legal permanent residents, others from medical benefits Jamaican permanent residents (green card holders) could find themselves shut out of medical services in the United States (US) unless they meet certain conditions. If the green card holder is a low-income person and has had green card status for...
US$542m fallout WESTERN BUREAU: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) could lose more than US$542 million annually under the United States’ newly imposed reciprocal tariffs, a blow that threatens to unravel decades of export growth, particularly in agriculture, food...
Four CARICOM states to launch full free movement in October WESTERN BUREAU. Four CARICOM member states will be implementing free movement of the region’s nationals by October 1, 2025, marking a major step forward in regional integration under the entity’s Single Market and Economy (CSME). Jamaica’s Prime...
Rockfort Mineral Bath still not ready After five years of closed gates and shifting timelines, the long-promised reopening of the Rockfort Mineral Bath has again been postponed, this time to the end of July, causing disappointment among hopeful patrons. This promise was made early last...
INDECOM, police examined apartment separately, court hears The chief crime scene examiner from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) testified yesterday that he was unaware that the police had visited and processed Constable Noel Maitland’s apartment before his team’s official examination...