Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories for the week ending March 10th, 2017

Jamaican and Caribbean News

—————————————- THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS  STORIES —————————————- HOLNESS ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES 2017 BUDGET, RAISES TAXES Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness’s administration has announced the budget for 2017. Included in the budget are tax increases on vehicle licenses, tobacco, alcoholic beverages, and group health insurance. The budget is designed to address a funding gap of about $27 […]

WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – A Place Called Heaven

According to the news report, the one bedroom, one-and-a-half bathroom apartment located in New York city was on the market for a cool US$2.075 million and carried monthly maintenance fees of almost $1,500. It was only a year earlier that the seller bought the unit for $1.695 million, an appreciation of $380,000 during that time. […]

“Lions” By Skip Marley to Be Featured By Major TV Sports Networks​

Major TV Sports Networks including MLB Network (Major League Baseball) ESPN and FOX Sports have picked “Lions” by next generation Marley family member Skip Marley to be featured for use in their sports programming including full use, bumpers, highlights, teases, rollouts and montages through the first quarter of 2018. “LIons” was just used during a […]