Tax Executive Director at Ernst & Young, John Butler, told IRIE FM News that, after reviewing the measure, he found it unclear whether the GCT Amendment of Schedules Order, which was approved in Parliament last week, has the effect of taxing Airbnb rentals.

Police Commissioner Dr. Kevin Blake is calling on Jamaicans to play their part in reducing violent confrontations with lawmen. The call comes as he reiterates the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s commitment to de-escalation in its engagements with the public.

Jamaica has signed three memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with the Republic of India to facilitate bilateral cooperation in health and medicine, solarisation, and public broadcasting and content exchange. The MOUs were signed at Jamaica House yesterday following bilateral discussions among Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, several Cabinet ministers and India’s Minister of External Affairs, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

A Ministry of Family and Parenting is among solutions proposed by Hear the Children’s Cry (HTCC) to deal with violent incidents it says are affecting Jamaica’s children and threatening the nation’s future. The group highlights the complexity of the challenges facing children in 2026 and is pressing for a dynamic, multifaceted attack on the daunting complex of violent dangers and alarming deficits affecting Jamaica’s children and threatening the nation’s future.

The $1.4 billion road rehabilitation initiative will focus on heavily trafficked roads that are critical to public transportation, commerce, emergency access, tourism, and the daily movement of Jamaicans. Residents in sections of St. James and St. Elizabeth have staged several protests, over recent weeks highlighting the poor condition of the roads among other issues. One such protest occurred this morning.