Last Notes
🇯🇲 Yard Bitcoin Report:
💰 BTC/USD: $80,241
💵 BTC/JMD: $12,763,888
⚡ Sats for $1,000 JMD: 7,835
⚡ Sats for $1 USD: 1,246
🧱 Block: 967812
⚡ Fees: 2 sat/vB
#Jamaica #Bitcoin #stacksats #YardVibes
₿ BlackRock's Jay Jacobs: Bitcoin Volatility Halved, IBIT Built the Collateral Narrative
BlackRock's head of U.S. equity ETFs says Bitcoin's annualized volatility has dropped from roughly 80 to the 35-40 range, crediting IBIT and the options market ...
Source: TFTC
🔗 https://www.tftc.io/blackrock-ibit-bitcoin-volatility-collateral-narrative-jay-jacobs
#jamaica #news #tech
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₿ AI Audits Found a Four-Year Zcash Bug and Drained $100M in Bitcoin
An AI-assisted researcher exposed a four-year Zcash counterfeiting vulnerability in a single day. Separately, a five-year Coldcard firmware entropy bug preceded...
Source: TFTC
🔗 https://www.tftc.io/ai-audits-zcash-bug-coldcard-bitcoin-theft
#jamaica #news #tech
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🗞️ Harvest heartbreak
For Angella Jones, the hardest part of farming is not the work. It is putting everything she has into the ground, watching crops fail repeatedly, and then havin...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260920/harvest-heartbreak
#jamaica #news
🗞️ Farmers facing price squeeze
A veteran farmer is pushing back against the perception that farmers are responsible for the high prices consumers pay for food. Angella Jones, a 53-year-old fr...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260920/farmers-facing-price-squeeze
#jamaica #news
🗞️ Pregnant in State care
Pregnant in State care...
Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/20/pregnant-state-care
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ Jamaica’s slavery petition packed with years of research
Jamaica’s slavery petition packed with years of research...
Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/20/jamaicas-slavery-petition-packed-years-research
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ …CPFSA tried to separate wards before pregnancy
...CPFSA tried to separate wards before pregnancy...
Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/20/cpfsa-tried-separate-wards-pregnancy
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ FINAL FLIGHT
Kingsmen brace for Falcons...
Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/20/final-flight
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ Jamaica belongs to Jamaicans... with a permit
In St Thomas, the coastal economy is integral to the lives and livelihoods of many residents. With several beaches in the parish, fishing, beach vending, small-...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260920/jamaica-belongs-jamaicans-permit
#jamaica #news #business
🗞️ Gen sec: PNP, newcomers ‘shone’ despite challenges
As supporters of the People’s National Party (PNP) head to western Jamaica today for its 88th annual conference, General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell has given ...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260920/gen-sec-pnp-newcomers-shone-despite-challenges
#jamaica #news #politics
🗞️ Drought pushes NIC to pump more water
The National Irrigation Commission Limited (NIC) says it is pumping and distributing more water than usual to farmers as the prolonged drought continues to put ...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260920/drought-pushes-nic-pump-more-water
#jamaica #news
🗞️ As schools ration water, farmers struggle to earn enough to keep children in class
The prolonged drought gripping St Elizabeth is reaching beyond the parish’s farms, disrupting family incomes and putting pressure on schools to conserve water w...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260920/schools-ration-water-farmers-struggle-earn-enough-keep-children-class
#jamaica #news
🗞️ Kennedy tells anti-vaccine activists they have a friend in Trump’s White House
WASHINGTON (AP): Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave the keynote address at a conference of an anti-vaccine activist group he once ch...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260920/kennedy-tells-anti-vaccine-activists-they-have-friend-trumps-white-house
#jamaica #news
🗞️ $11m passport penalty
The Supreme Court has ordered the Government to pay a Westmoreland woman over $11 million after it found that immigration authorities violated her constitutiona...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260920/11m-passport-penalty
#jamaica #news #politics #crime
🗞️ Jehovah’s Witnesses allow blood-derived products
The Jehovah’s Witnesses have partly eased their longstanding prohibition on the medical use of donated blood, allowing members to receive products derived from ...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260920/jehovahs-witnesses-allow-blood-derived-products
#jamaica #news
🗞️ $10m handed out to keep Jamaica's Promise to 25 students
Twenty-five Jamaica Independence scholarships, together valued in excess of J$10 million, have been awarded to final-year tertiary students by Jamaica's Promise...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260920/10m-handed-out-keep-jamaicas-promise-25-students
#jamaica #news
💼 Solar firm IEG mulls property development to unlock legacy losses
Innovative Energy Group (IEG) wants to enter property development to augment its solar-installation business, and would seek approval to use legacy tax losses f...
Source: Gleaner Business
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260920/solar-firm-ieg-mulls-property-development-unlock-legacy-losses
#jamaica #news
🗞️ ‘We are not struggling’
The once-lush green lawn at the front of Spring Garden Primary and Infant School in St Thomas is now a deep brown. At neighbouring White Hall Primary School, ve...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260920/we-are-not-struggling
#jamaica #news
💼 Ja’s crime rate nears Costa Rica’s, but growth promise unfulfilled
There are few instances in economic life when the business community can expect a tangible return on an external shift without cutting another cheque, and the d...
Source: Gleaner Business
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260920/jas-crime-rate-nears-costa-ricas-growth-promise-unfulfilled
#jamaica #news
💼 FID seeks broker to sell 11 forfeited properties
The Financial Investigations Division (FID) has gone to market for a real estate brokerage firm to sell 11 properties taken from criminals, the first concrete s...
Source: Gleaner Business
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260920/fid-seeks-broker-sell-11-forfeited-properties
#jamaica #news #politics #crime
💼 Imani Tafari-Ama | Reparations, sovereignty and the politics of justice
Aren’t you tired of dealing with successive government administrations that do not get it? Aren’t you fed up with the utter fraud of continuing to bow to the Ki...
Source: Gleaner Business
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260920/imani-tafari-ama-reparations-sovereignty-and-politics-justice
#jamaica #news #politics
🏏 Tru-Juice out to stun MBU
Tru-Juice out to stun MBU...
Source: Observer Sports
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/20/tru-juice-stun-mbu
#jamaica #news
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🏏 We can win in Concacaf, but only if we build the economy
We can win in Concacaf, but only if we build the economy...
Source: Observer Sports
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/20/can-win-concacaf-build-economy
#jamaica #news #business
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🏏 Rainsville gets win in Stewards’ room
Rainsville...
Source: Observer Sports
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/20/rainsville-gets-win-stewards-room
#jamaica #news
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🏏 I Dream Again cherry ripe for Overnight breakthrough
I Dream Again...
Source: Observer Sports
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/20/dream-cherry-ripe-overnight-breakthrough
#jamaica #news
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🇯🇲 Yard Bitcoin Report:
💰 BTC/USD: $80,411
💵 BTC/JMD: $12,790,930
⚡ Sats for $1,000 JMD: 7,818
⚡ Sats for $1 USD: 1,244
🧱 Block: 967794
⚡ Fees: 2 sat/vB
#Jamaica #Bitcoin #stacksats #YardVibes
🏏 Former champions score big wins in Ben Francis Cup
Former champions score big wins in Ben Francis Cup...
Source: Observer Sports
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/20/former-champions-score-big-wins-ben-francis-cup
#jamaica #news
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🇯🇲 Yard Bitcoin Report:
💰 BTC/USD: $81,272
💵 BTC/JMD: $12,927,888
⚡ Sats for $1,000 JMD: 7,735
⚡ Sats for $1 USD: 1,230
🧱 Block: 967768
⚡ Fees: 1 sat/vB
#Jamaica #Bitcoin #stacksats #YardVibes
📻 JCF heightens presence in Kingston following fatal shooting of alleged gang leader & threats against officers
The constabulary force has increased security presence in sections of the Kingston Western division following the fatal shooting of the reputed leader of the On...
Source: IrieFM
🔗 https://iriefm.net/jcf-heightens-presence-in-kingston-following-fatal-shooting-of-alleged-gang-leader-threats-against-officers
#jamaica #news #crime
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📻 Citizens warned to avoid water in Salt Marsh, Trelawny after shark observed feeding on whale carcass
Members of the public are being urged to avoid entering the water in the Salt Marsh area of Trelawny, after sharks were observed feeding on the carcass of a wha...
Source: IrieFM
🔗 https://iriefm.net/citizens-warned-to-avoid-water-in-salt-marsh-trelawny-after-shark-observed-feeding-on-whale-carcass
#jamaica #news
🗞️ New Discovery Point-to-Mount Boon pipeline improves water supply for St Ann residents
...
Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/19/new-discovery-point-mount-boon-pipeline-improves-water-supply-st-ann-residents
#jamaica #news
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🇯🇲 Yard Bitcoin Report:
💰 BTC/USD: $81,104
💵 BTC/JMD: $12,779,157
⚡ Sats for $1,000 JMD: 7,825
⚡ Sats for $1 USD: 1,233
🧱 Block: 967745
⚡ Fees: 2 sat/vB
#Jamaica #Bitcoin #stacksats #YardVibes
🗞️ Norman Manley book spot in Manning Cup second round
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Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/19/norman-manley-book-spot-manning-cup-second-round
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ Police report threats against West Kingston cops after alleged gang leader’s death
...
Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/19/police-report-threats-west-kingston-cops-alleged-gang-leaders-death
#jamaica #news #crime
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🏛️ IHR Recommendations to Enhance Jamaica’s Health Security
Recommendations emerging from the International Health Regulations (IHR) Voluntary External Evaluation (VEE) will help guide efforts to strengthen Jamaica’s cap...
Source: JIS
🔗 https://jis.gov.jm/ihr-recommendations-to-enhance-jamaicas-health-security
#jamaica #news #crime
🗞️ Jehovah’s Witnesses ease blood policy but maintain ban on whole-blood transfusions
...
Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/19/jehovahs-witnesses-ease-blood-policy-maintain-ban-whole-blood-transfusions
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ Do not enter! Public urged to avoid Salt Marsh area in Trelawny after shark sighting
A public warning has been issued by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) urging citizens not to enter the ocean in the vicinity of Salt Marsh in ...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/index%2ephp/article/news/20260919/do-not-enter-public-urged-avoid-salt-marsh-area-trelawny-after-shark-sighting
#jamaica #news
🏛️ Redefine Excellence in Education – Senator Morris Dixon
Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon, is urging Jamaicans to rethink how they define excellence in educa...
Source: JIS
🔗 https://jis.gov.jm/redefine-excellence-in-education-senator-morris-dixon
#jamaica #news #politics
🗞️ Brotha George remembers Channel One’s glory days after studio demolition
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Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/19/brotha-george-remembers-channel-ones-glory-days-studio-demolition
#jamaica #news
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🏛️ Camperdown Primary School in St. Ann Receives Modern Infant Leanring Facility
Camperdown Primary and Infant School in St. Ann has received an upgrade to its infant department through the addition of a modern learning facility capable of a...
Source: JIS
🔗 https://jis.gov.jm/camperdown-primary-school-in-st-ann-receives-modern-infant-leanring-facility
#jamaica #news
🏛️ Papine High School Hydration Station Handover Ceremony
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Source: JIS
🔗 https://jis.gov.jm/papine-high-school-hydration-station-handover-ceremony
#jamaica #news
🗞️ Residents stage fiery protest after cops kill alleged gang leader
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Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/19/residents-stage-fiery-protest-cops-kill-alleged-gang-leader
#jamaica #news
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🏛️ Principals Urged to Take More Active Role in Improving Maths Performance
The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information is urging school principals to play a more active role in improving student performance in mathematics....
Source: JIS
🔗 https://jis.gov.jm/principals-urged-to-take-more-active-role-in-improving-maths-performance
#jamaica #news
🏛️ Statin Assures That Interviewers Taking Part in JSLC Can Be Verified
The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is assuring householders participating in the 2026 Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions (JSLC) that people can veri...
Source: JIS
🔗 https://jis.gov.jm/statin-assures-that-interviewers-taking-part-in-jslc-can-be-verified
#jamaica #news
₿ Cuba's Grid Collapses for the Sixth Time as Dollar-System Cuts Off Oil
Cuba's national power grid went dark for the sixth time in 2026 after U.S. sanctions cut Venezuelan and Iranian oil supply lines. The island's Energy Minister h...
Source: TFTC
🔗 https://www.tftc.io/cuba-grid-collapse-2026-oil-sanctions-blackout
#jamaica #news #politics
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₿ OFAC Sanctions Iranian Crypto Exchange BitBank Over IRGC Bitcoin Transfers
OFAC designated Iranian crypto exchange BitBank on September 17, 2026, alleging it transferred hundreds of millions in Bitcoin to the IRGC between June and July...
Source: TFTC
🔗 https://www.tftc.io/ofac-sanctions-bitbank-iranian-crypto-exchange-irgc-operation-economic-outcast
#jamaica #news #business #tech
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📻 Capleton honoured by Brampton City Proclamation on his return to Canada
Reggae/Dancehall star Capleton, returned to Canada last week after a 11 year hiatus to perform at the Soul Food Festival Fire in the Park in Vaughn, Ontario. La...
Source: IrieFM
🔗 https://iriefm.net/capleton-honoured-by-brampton-city-proclamation-on-his-return-to-canada
#jamaica #news #entertainment
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🗞️ Johnson Smith to lead Jamaica’s delegation to 81st Session of the UN General Assembly in New York
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Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/19/johnson-smith-lead-jamaicas-delegation-81st-session-un-general-assembly-new-york
#jamaica #news
