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02.10.26 - 13:27
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How Jamaica Continues to Ruin Its Brand With Reparations (ZeroHedge)
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How Jamaica Continues to Ruin Its Brand With Reparations
Authored by Lipton Matthews via American Greatness,
Sentiment and economic development are not the same currency, and confusing them costs a small country more than it can afford.
Washington has quietly begun cancelling the visas of prominent Jamaican officials, and the reason is no mystery. American law enforcement partners have grown frustrated with how Kingston handled a cocaine scandal inside its own police force. Operatives cited by the Sunday Gleaner on September 6, 2026, say the revocations "include public officials within the government and the security forces" and that the cancellations amount to a deliberate signal of Washington's displeasure with the affair.
At the center of that affair sits the now-disbanded Counter Terrorism and Organized Crime division, known as C-TOC. U.S. authorities suspect that police officers assigned to the unit significantly understated the amount of cocaine they confiscated during an operation in G...
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28.05.26 - 14:48
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The race for oil: will Jamaica be the next country to drill and what does that mean for its green pledges? (The Guardian)
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With early tests suggesting the presence of crude oil, the Caribbean island has begun to debate whether it could justify becoming a producerJamaica is closer than ever to drilling for oil. Tests on samples from the seabed off the Caribbean island's south coast earlier this year identified hydrocarbons, which suggest the presence of crude oil below ground.Jamaica imports all its fuel, which costs about $1.5-2bn (£1.1bn-1.5bn) annually, depending on global oil prices. It is a persistent drag on an economy that generated $4.3bn from tourism, its biggest earner, in 2024. Continue reading......
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