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Published:Monday | October 20, 2025 | 12:11 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Nearly 79,000 Jamaicans, or 2.8 per cent of the population, remain trapped in multidimensional poverty, the newly released 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report has indicated. The figure accounts for Jamaicans enduring...

Published:Monday | October 20, 2025 | 12:10 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

As tensions between the United States (US) and Venezuela build, a senior retired diplomat is cautioning that if it escalates into open conflict, trade in the region and tourism, on which most CARICOM states, including Jamaica, depend heavily would...