Jamaica News

Reggae and dancehall musicians in the Caribbean may soon have a nonfungible token platform to help gain greater control of their creative work.

The Bank of Jamaica has partnered with an Ireland-based tech firm for its central bank digital currency project scheduled to begin in May.

Jamaica’s central bank has invited technology solution providers to develop and test a potential CBDC.

The Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange is partnering with Canadian fintech firm Blockstation to trial tokenized security offerings.

Following a successful pilot in January, the Jamaica Stock Exchange will launch a limited live-trading pilot with BTC and ETH.

The Jamaica Stock Exchange has chosen a Canadian fintech company to launch trading and other related services for cryptocurrencies and tokens.

Jamaican Police have crafted a plan to slow human traffickers using Bitcoin.

London-based Bitcoin wallet company Caricoin plans to start a Caribbean-dedicated Bitcoin exchange with the Bank of Jamaica.

Bitcoin startup Caricoin recently announced the launch of a social mobile money platform for the Caribbean.

Jamaica had overcome its 12-year drought in Olympic bobsledding, finally qualified, and raised the money needed to get to Sochi. Team #CoolRunnings was in business.

Here’s how to Internet like a pro: Take a story that elicits images of a beloved movie from childhood (“Cool Runnings”) and somehow find a way to mix that with Reddit’s meme du jour (doge).