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President Joe Biden listens during an event about gun safety on Friday, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Biden spent much of the past week making the case to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly, Democratic donors and voters that

Biden faces foreign police trouble spots as he aims to highlight his experience on the global stage

WASHINGTON (AP): This probably wasn’t how President Joe Biden envisioned his big foreign policy week ending. Biden spent much of the time trying to make the case to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly and Democratic donors and voters that...
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Breach of trust

KING’S COUNSEL Peter Champagnie’s pleas for the judge to not impose a sentence for more than 15 years for a police sergeant who had raped a 16-year-old girl fell on deaf ears on Friday. The attorney argued that it would be hard for Christopher...
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Morgan says PNP’s muzzle claims are without merit

CLAIMS BY the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) that the Government has instituted a new audio system in Parliament to gag its members have been dismissed by Information Minister Robert Morgan. Morgan yesterday refuted the claims by the...
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Amina Taylor |Reparation groups’ sidestep of British Gov’t could be ace move

CARICOM nations could be on the verge of delivering a political master stroke. In announcements that have been shockingly ignored by great swathes of the media, the national reparations commissions will be sidestepping the British government and...
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Flow Foundation gives boost to senior activity centre

Expanding its efforts to educate, enable and enhance the online capabilities of Jamaica’s senior citizens, Flow Foundation has injected new life into the National Council for Senior Citizens (NCSC) Activity Centre with free high-speed Internet. As...
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Jamaica’s Jody Brown (right) dribbles past Canada’s Jade Rose during last night’s Concacaf Women’s Olympic Games first leg playoff match at the National Stadium.  Canada won 2-0.

Advantage Canada

Canada placed a high hurdle in Jamaica’s path to the Paris Olympic Games next year following a 2-0 victory over the hosts in the first-leg of their Concacaf qualifier at the National Stadium last night. The Reggae Girlz now travel to Canada for...
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Over and out for coach Connie Premium

IT IS OFFICIAL. After two successful stints coaching the national netball team Connie Francis has called it a day and is moving on. Undoubtedly, the most successful coach of the national senior team after doing so from 2007 to 2011 and 2019 to...
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Septimus ‘Bob’ Blake, president of the Jamaica Bankers Association.

Banks set December deadline for full ATM polymer-readiness Premium

The Jamaica Bankers Association, JBA, has not put a cost on the ongoing job of deploying new machines and technology for handling the polymer notes released by the Bank of Jamaica, but says the banks are feeling the sting. It’s said to cost up to...
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Creative urged to utilise productive inputs relief scheme

Jamaicans involved in the creative industries are being encouraged to take advantage of the Government’s productive inputs relief scheme. The provision is a duty exemption on the importation of specific items for productive use. Newly-minted film...
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On ‘Scarlet’, Doja Cat’s demons demand attention – as if it were possible to look away

LOS ANGELES (AP): Before Doja Cat, the adventurous and often absurdist rap phenomenon born from Internet celebrity, released her stellar fourth full-length album, the take-no-prisoners Scarlet, she bit the hand that feeds. Sort of. On social...
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This file photo shows firearms seized at Freeport wharf in Montego Bay, St James.

Editorial | Jamaica needs help

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang needs to be more explicit about the targeted approaches which he says Government is using to tackle the illicit trade in illegal firearms and drugs. Dr Chang cited as evidence of a more robust approach to...
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Tony Deyal | Down but hopefully not out

The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is in its big week heading towards a Guyana vs Trinidad game that will determine whether it is a victory for ‘chicken curry’ or ‘curry chicken’. Or neither if, as my Jamaican friends believe, the game will go to...
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Letter of the Day | Build resilience against earthquakes

THE EDITOR, Madam: On September 21, Jamaica experienced a 4.3 magnitude earthquake as reported by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), underscoring the critical need for earthquake preparedness in vulnerable regions. Earthquakes are...
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Show urgency in addressing raw sewage overflow

THE EDITOR, Madam: I am a concerned parent who has a child who attends the Neptune Basic School located in Harbour View, Kingston. I am also aware that the issue with the overflowing raw sewage in the vicinity of the West Indies Home Contractors...
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) meets with Kenya’s President William Ruto (second left) in New York on Thursday.

US pledges $100m to back proposed Kenyan-led multinational force to Haiti

NEW YORK (AP): THE BIDEN administration pledged US$100 million on Friday to support a proposed Kenyan-led multinational force to restore security to conflict-ravaged Haiti, and urged other nations to make similar contributions. Secretary of State...
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At least 20 students abducted in new attack by gunmen targeting schools

MAIDUGURI (AP): Gunmen abducted at least 20 students in north-western Nigeria during an attack early Friday that targeted their school, local media and authorities reported Friday, the latest in a cycle of violence in the country’s troubled...
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Justine Harrison poses proudly with the yam she harvested from her backyard, which weighed approximately 26 pounds.

Justine Harrison unearths her inner plant mom with Najwa’s Garden

As a young child, Justine Harrison would go to plant shows with her mother and aunt. During those trips, she and her sister found themselves stuck with the onerous task of carrying around all purchased items. Reflecting on this memory as an adult,...

Something Extra | Saturday

In a moving display, filled with literary art, the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) unveiled the Jamaica Poetry Archive at 10A West King’s House Road in St Andrew, on Thursday night. Dubbed ‘Strictly Poetry’, the event saw poets, educators,...
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