Last Notes
🇯🇲 Yard Bitcoin Report:
💰 BTC/USD: $75,555
💵 BTC/JMD: $11,920,440
⚡ Sats for $1,000 JMD: 8,389
⚡ Sats for $1 USD: 1,324
🧱 Block: 967259
⚡ Fees: 1 sat/vB
#Jamaica #Bitcoin #stacksats #YardVibes
₿ Bank of England Blinks: BoE to Halt 30-Year Gilt Sales as Yields Hit 1998 Highs
The Bank of England is set to announce Thursday that it will halt active sales of 20- and 30-year gilts after long-dated yields hit their highest levels since 1...
Source: TFTC
🔗 https://www.tftc.io/bank-of-england-halts-30-year-gilt-sales-yields-1998-high
#jamaica #news #business
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🗞️ St Bess police tackle vehicle shortage, rise in fatal domestic disputes
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Superintendent Adrian Flemming, the head of operations in the St Elizabeth Police Division, has said that an inadequate number of police ...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/st-bess-police-tackle-vehicle-shortage-rise-fatal-domestic-disputes
#jamaica #news #crime
💼 Microsoft commits to sweeping AI privacy rules for students
Millions of students every day turn to AI chatbots for help with schoolwork, emotional support and personal advice – often unaware of where their conversations ...
Source: Gleaner Business
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260916/microsoft-commits-sweeping-ai-privacy-rules-students
#jamaica #news
🗞️ Global aviation squeeze
Global aviation squeeze...
Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/16/global-aviation-squeeze
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ Family services shake-up
Family services shake-up...
Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/16/family-services-shake
#jamaica #news
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🏏 ROAD TO RECOVERY
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Source: Observer Sports
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/16/road-to-recovery-20260916-0519-574015
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ KINGSTON BOOKSHOP’S $1-B EXPANSION
Kingston Bookshop opens...
Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/16/kingston-bookshops-1-b-expansion
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ Dream Big Foundation serves up ‘Breakfast for Bright Futures’
The Elite Basic School in Seaview Gardens, St Andrew, provided Antoine Lodge with refuge, friends, and filial love when he was a student there more than 20 year...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/dream-big-foundation-serves-breakfast-bright-futures
#jamaica #news
🗞️ Visual Vibe takes screens off-grid with solar partnership
Visual Vibe takes screens...
Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/16/visual-vibe-takes-screens-off-grid-solar-partnership
#jamaica #news #entertainment
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🗞️ Closed hotels sell their comeback at JAPEX
WESTERN BUREAU: Nearly 11 months after Hurricane Melissa knocked thousands of hotel rooms out of Jamaica’s tourism inventory, some of the properties that remain...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/closed-hotels-sell-their-comeback-japex
#jamaica #news
🗞️ Chuck warns against going soft on guns
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck says the Government is reviewing the mandatory minimum sentences under the Firearms Act but remains convinced, along with the secu...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/chuck-warns-against-going-soft-guns
#jamaica #news #politics #crime
🗞️ HAZY FIRE FACTS
Cops probing the death of two young children in a house fire on the weekend have received “conflicting stories” about whether they were home alone at the time o...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/hazy-fire-facts
#jamaica #news #crime
🗞️ 1,200 back on the job as Royalton reopens Trelawny resorts
WESTERN BUREAU: Nearly 11 months after Hurricane Melissa forced their closure, Royalton’s two Trelawny resorts reopened their doors Tuesday morning, welcoming t...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/1200-back-job-royalton-reopens-trelawny-resorts
#jamaica #news
🗞️ Remittances to developing countries near US$730 billion – UN
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): Migrants sent an estimated US$728.6 billion to families in low- and middle-income countries last year, almost double the amount recorded a...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/remittances-developing-countries-near-us730-billion-un
#jamaica #news
💼 Africa’s biggest oil refinery opens to public ownership, sparking excitement among retail investors
Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote opened his refinery to public ownership on Monday with plans to raise US$1.6 billion from retail investors across the conti...
Source: Gleaner Business
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260916/africas-biggest-oil-refinery-opens-public-ownership-sparking-excitement
#jamaica #news #business
💼 When the crash scene becomes a ‘witness’
Kenute Hare’s new book deserves attention because it asks a question Jamaica can no longer afford to treat as technical: When people die or are injured on the r...
Source: Gleaner Business
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260916/when-crash-scene-becomes-witness
#jamaica #news #crime
🗞️ Where is Jamaica’s digital asset policy?
In recent months, I have explored the rise of Bitcoin, Bitcoin technology, stablecoins and the future of banking in a digital age. The natural progression of th...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/where-jamaicas-digital-asset-policy
#jamaica #news #business #tech
🗞️ Bird shooters accused of setting bushfires
WESTERN BUREAU: Bird shooters in St Elizabeth are said to be using bushfires to force birds to leave their habitats and go into open spaces, where rice is scatt...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/bird-shooters-accused-setting-bushfires
#jamaica #news
💼 Fontana sales hit record, but costs weigh on profit
Fontana Limited generated record revenue but lower profit across its enlarged 11-store pharmacy network. It plans to cut costs going forward. “The next phase w...
Source: Gleaner Business
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260916/fontana-sales-hit-record-costs-weigh-profit
#jamaica #news
💼 Omni sees local growth but shrinking oversees sales
Omni Industries Limited has cut its export ambitions by half and stretched the deadline, telling shareholders it now wants overseas sales to reach 10 per cent o...
Source: Gleaner Business
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260916/omni-sees-local-growth-shrinking-oversees-sales
#jamaica #news #crime
💼 FSC sets up innovation unit, sandbox for new financial products
The Financial Services Commission (FSC) has established two departments – an Innovation Unit and a Market Growth & Development Department – to give securities, ...
Source: Gleaner Business
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260916/fsc-sets-innovation-unit-sandbox-new-financial-products
#jamaica #news #politics
🗞️ Cordel Green to participate in Silicon Valley AI conference
Cordel Green, executive director of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ), will present a Caribbean framework for human‑centred artificial intelligence g...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/cordel-green-participate-silicon-valley-ai-conference
#jamaica #news #tech
💼 Island Grill targets 30 stores by 2030 in stepped-up expansion
Island Grill plans to grow its restaurant network by two-thirds to 30 outlets by 2030, a target that overtakes the goal the chain set a year ago. Chief Executiv...
Source: Gleaner Business
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260916/island-grill-targets-30-stores-2030-stepped-expansion
#jamaica #news
💼 Stronger Jamaican dollar contributed to BOJ loss
The Bank of Jamaica said it booked a $6.9-billion loss in the eight months to August, driven mainly by writedowns and currency movements. “The losses year to da...
Source: Gleaner Business
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260916/stronger-jamaican-dollar-contributed-boj-loss
#jamaica #news #business
💼 Photo
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Source: Gleaner Business
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260916/photo
#jamaica #news
🗞️ Sandals spends $214m rebuilding schools after Melissa
WESTERN BUREAU: The Sandals Foundation has invested more than $214 million in restoring schools damaged by Hurricane Melissa, with two institutions in Westmorel...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/sandals-spends-214m-rebuilding-schools-after-melissa
#jamaica #news
🗞️ Abel calls for better suicide-response training
WESTERN BUREAU: Consultant psychiatrist Dr Wendel Abel is calling for better training for Jamaica’s first responders, emergency-service workers and emergency-ro...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/abel-calls-better-suicide-response-training
#jamaica #news
🏏 Jamaica Kingsmen hunt redemption against Barbados in CPL play-off showdown
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Source: Observer Sports
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/16/jamaica-kingsmen-hunt-redemption-barbados-cpl-play-off-showdown
#jamaica #news
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🏏 Peterkin urges patience with young Ocho Rios team
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Source: Observer Sports
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/16/peterkin-urges-patience-young-ocho-rios-team
#jamaica #news
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🇯🇲 Yard Bitcoin Report:
💰 BTC/USD: $75,759
💵 BTC/JMD: $11,952,625
⚡ Sats for $1,000 JMD: 8,366
⚡ Sats for $1 USD: 1,320
🧱 Block: 967229
⚡ Fees: 2 sat/vB
#Jamaica #Bitcoin #stacksats #YardVibes
🏏 Raptors confirm Leonard’s return after Clippers salary cap scandal
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Source: Observer Sports
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/16/raptors-confirm-leonards-return-clippers-salary-cap-scandal
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ Norman Manley march toward Manning Cup second round on maximum points
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Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/15/norman-manley-march-toward-manning-cup-second-round-maximum-points
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ Frome Tech upset Rusea’s High 4-2 in daCosta Cup
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Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/15/frome-tech-upset-ruseas-high-4-2-dacosta-cup
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ Carney sells Canada to global investors but says US ties still key
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Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/15/carney-sells-canada-global-investors-says-us-ties-still-key
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ Tourism workers pension scheme surpasses $6 billion
...
Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/15/tourism-workers-pension-scheme-surpasses-6-billion
#jamaica #news
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📻 Better experience and fair chance for all at National Stadium facility – Shirley
As plans remain in high gear for the re-development of the National Stadium facility, newly appointed Chairman of Independence Park Limited (IPL), David Shirley...
Source: IrieFM
🔗 https://iriefm.net/better-experience-and-fair-chance-for-all-at-national-stadium-facility-shirley
#jamaica #news #sports
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📻 JC student hospitalized after stabbing near Half-Way Tree Transport Centre
A Jamaica College student has been hospitalised after he was reportedly stabbed during a fight involving several students near the Half-Way Tree Transport Centr...
Source: Nationwide
🔗 https://nationwideradiojm.com/jc-student-hospitalized-after-stabbing-near-half-way-tree-transport-centre
#jamaica #news #crime
🗞️ Ramona Samuels wins battle to protect ‘The Voicebox’
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Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/15/ramona-samuels-wins-battle-protect-voicebox
#jamaica #news
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🇯🇲 Yard Bitcoin Report:
💰 BTC/USD: $75,678
💵 BTC/JMD: $11,939,846
⚡ Sats for $1,000 JMD: 8,375
⚡ Sats for $1 USD: 1,321
🧱 Block: 967208
⚡ Fees: 1 sat/vB
#Jamaica #Bitcoin #stacksats #YardVibes
📻 Two Premier League teams sent packing in EFL third round
Two Premier League teams were sent packing from the English League Cup on Tuesday in the third round. Tottenham Hotspur lost 3-1 away to Liverpool at Anfield on...
Source: Nationwide
🔗 https://nationwideradiojm.com/two-premier-league-teams-sent-packing-in-efl-third-round
#jamaica #news
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📻 Anticipation at fever pitch ahead of annual UWI Champions League
Daunte Samuels, Games Committee Chairperson at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus says anticipation is fever-pitch ahead of the annual UWI Champions...
Source: Nationwide
🔗 https://nationwideradiojm.com/anticipation-at-fever-pitch-ahead-of-annual-uwi-champions-league
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ Empty seats as schools reopen in Venezuela’s quake-hit Guaira
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Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/15/empty-seats-schools-reopen-venezuelas-quake-hit-guaira
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ Jamaicans urged to dispose of waste responsibly
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Source: Observer
🔗 https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/09/15/jamaicans-urged-dispose-waste-responsibly
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ Labour and Social Security Ministry says September 15 NIS pension payments delayed
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is advising National Insurance Scheme (NIS) pensioners that their payments scheduled for Tuesday, September 15, have ...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/labour-and-social-security-ministry-says-september-15-nis-pension-payments
#jamaica #news #crime
📻 Point-to-point inflation up to nearly 8% in August
Jamaica’s point-to-point inflation rate has climbed again, rising to 7.9 percent in August. The point-to-point rate measures how much the prices of goods and se...
Source: Nationwide
🔗 https://nationwideradiojm.com/point-to-point-inflation-up-to-nearly-8-in-august
#jamaica #news
📻 Repairs complete on 65 schools severely impacted by Melissa
More than 60 of the schools that were severely damaged during last October’s passage of Hurricane Melissa have now been fully repaired. Executive Director of th...
Source: Nationwide
🔗 https://nationwideradiojm.com/repairs-complete-on-65-schools-severely-impacted-by-melissa
#jamaica #news
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🗞️ JFJ seeks clarity on proposed multibillion dollar maximum-security prison
Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) has welcomed the Government’s renewed commitment to replacing Jamaica’s ageing correctional infrastructure, but is calling for great...
Source: Gleaner
🔗 https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260916/jfj-seeks-clarity-proposed-multibillion-dollar-maximum-security-prison
#jamaica #news #politics #business #crime
📻 Tourism Workers Pension Scheme undersubscribed says Ministry
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Jennifer Griffith, says the uptake of the Tourism Worker’s Pension Fund, has been slow in coming. She was speaki...
Source: Nationwide
🔗 https://nationwideradiojm.com/tourism-workers-pension-scheme-undersubscribed-says-ministry
#jamaica #news #politics
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