Today's briefing: the Privy Council strikes down Trinidad and Tobago's buggery law, a Gordon House row heads toward court, oil slides to a two-month low, the Hegseth impeachment is shelved, and Jamaica's young hurdlers strike gold in Dakar.
The US widens its Iran blockade to land routes, Israel's president taps Gadi Eisenkot over Netanyahu, Jamaica counts 111 road deaths in a quarter, Anti-Gang Week starts in schools, and the BVI tops a global tax haven index.
Democrats sweep both chambers of Congress as Vance blames the Iran war; Britain commits to time-bound talks on slavery's harms; a Cuba vote row erupts in Gordon House; PEP concessions run one more year; and Israel certifies a deadlocked election.
Democrats take the US House as Texas flips and Florida elects a governor with Jamaican roots. Plus: King Charles on slavery at CHOGM, a challenge to the PM's seat goes to trial, hotels fight Booking.com, and US strikes near Hormuz.
P.J. Patterson calls Jamaica's Cuba abstention a betrayal as the government pushes back. Plus: NIDS for disaster grants and a new plan for Black River, Britain open to a slavery apology, Iran's two-day Hormuz offer, and a Black Sea grain push.
Jamaica signals a longer pause on its fiscal rules as recovery costs mount. Plus: most US transit deportees leave Jamaica, Haiti sets July 2027 elections, tankers ablaze in Hormuz, and central banks hold firm on stubborn inflation.
A year after Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica faces hard questions on relief, proposes tougher gun laws before a UN review, and looks to CHOGM in Antigua, while Trump weighs Iran and Brazil's Lula wins a historic fourth term.
Ukraine peace talks, oil prices, new NWC water rates, Petrojam and Montego Bay flooding: today's top stories for Jamaica and the world.