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JLP leadership urges MP in alleged assault to surrender to police
The leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is urging the Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament George Wright to surrender to the police now probing an assault case against him. The police have named Wright as a person of interest in...
CommentsSt Andrew father detained in connection with shooting death of son
A St Andrew man has been detained by the police in connection with the shooting death of his 35-year-old son. Ruel Knight was pronounced dead at hospital today after he was shot by his father at the meat and food distribution businessplace...
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Growth & Jobs | Saving and investing: A path to financial security
Chavelle Campbell knows too well the importance of saving and investing and how these financial tools have assisted her in achieving her financial goals. The 30-year-old youth empowerment officer at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information...
CommentsGrowth & Jobs | Create pension plans for employees, Wizzart urges MSMEs
Operators of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are being encouraged to learn more about creating pension plans for their employees. Speaking at a recent Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) ‘Virtual Biz Zone’ session...
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Billion dollar blockade Premium
General Secretary Dalton Wint said it is going to cost the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) over a billion dollars to sustain the national men’s programme during the upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifiers which start in September. The Reggae Boyz...
CommentsDols overtakes Gunning on route to Tokyo
After meeting the Olympics ‘B’ qualifying standard for the 200m medley recently, national swimmer Keanan Dols jumped ahead of Michael Gunning for the Jamaica Olympic Association’s (JOA) allocated spot at the Tokyo Olympics in July. Dols clocked 2:...
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Microsoft buying speech recognition firm Nuance in US$16b deal
Microsoft, on an accelerated growth push, is buying speech recognition company Nuance in a deal worth about US$16 billion. The acquisition will get Microsoft deeper into hospitals and the health care industry through Nuance’s widely used medical...
CommentsCannabis beauty products alliance Premium
Medicinal hemp producer Virtudes and Jamaican luxury skincare company Morgan’s Creek inked a partnership agreement that sees Virtudes becoming the main supplier of distilled cannabidiol, CBD, to the beauty brand. Morgan’s Creek recently moved into...
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Producer, PNP politician agrees with Holness
Music producer and People’s National Party politician Patrick Roberts is in partial agreement with Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who used a recent sitting of the House of Representatives to criticise certain aspects of Jamaica’s popular culture,...
CommentsFormer Miss Jamaica dies at 83
Marlene (Milnes-Fenton) O’Brien, the beauty who glided away with the Miss Jamaica title in 1955, passed away last Friday at her home in Fairfield, Connecticut, after a long illness, her daughter Sarah O’Brien, told The Gleaner. She was 83. The...
CommentsLetter of the Day | Racism is deep rooted in United Kingdom
THE EDITOR, Madam: I write as one individual (although I suspect I’m not alone) just as I’ve learned that a petition signed by 20,000 people is calling for the withdrawal of the recently published Sewell Report on Race and Ethnic Disparities. The...
CommentsButler presents pertinent arguments on domestic abuse
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am wondering how many people were able to read Dawn Butler’s remarkable article in The Gleaner, in the March 26-28 edition, titled ‘Let’s challenge domestic abuse against women’. I read it, and it was interesting – and a good...
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Send us pretty Vincentian women, says PM
ST JOHN’S (AP): Prime Minister Gaston Browne has sought to downplay opposition concerns over remarks he made regarding the persons being evacuated from St Vincent and the Grenadines, where the erupting La Soufriére volcano has resulted in several...
CommentsExplosion rocks St Vincent as volcano keeps erupting
KINGSTOWN (AP): La Soufriére volcano fired an enormous amount of ash and hot gas early Monday in the biggest explosive eruption yet since volcanic activity began on the Eastern Caribbean island of St Vincent late last week, with officials worried...
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SAJE Property Services poised for growth
The board of SAJE Property Services Limited has announced the appointment of Dr Robert Kinlocke Jr as its chairman and Rachel Harrisingh to the post of property manager. SAJE Property Services Limited is a real estate subsidiary of SAJE Logistics...
CommentsJoe was the consummate gentleman
I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of my dear colleague Joseph (Joe) Lowe. It seems like it was just yesterday that I saw him walking briskly on Liguanea Avenue, getting his daily exercise while going towards Saints Peter and Paul Church...
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Editorial | Volcanoes and CARICOM’s resilience bonds
Rosalea Hamilton | The CARICOM fiasco: What next?