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Published:Sunday | July 16, 2023 | 12:06 AMOliver Buckley - Contributor

Scam calls using AI to mimic voices of people you might know are being used to exploit unsuspecting members of the public. These calls use what’s known as generative AI, which refers to systems capable of creating text, images or any other media...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 12:13 AM
Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 12:13 AM

A book review by Fabian Adekunle Badejo “for unto us a daughter is born...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 12:10 AM

The vibrancy and diversity of India is in her DNA – from colours, cuisine, apparel, culture, and, of course, the people – there are 1.4 billion reasons to fall in love with that country. Jamaica, for the first time, got an insight into India’s...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 12:09 AM

Silence has immense power, it doesn’t mean soundless or thoughtless, being silent rather it means noiseless. The starting point of the healing power of silence is in our thoughts. Thoughts are extremely powerful; indeed, since we speak and act...

Published:Sunday | July 2, 2023 | 12:59 AM

Purely as a matter of serendipity, I came across some Gleaner newspapers for January 1963. Before the public Trump. Before the public Putin. Months after the Cuban missile crisis. No smartphones, no Internet, but mice with feet. One from the...

Published:Sunday | July 2, 2023 | 12:55 AM

Inception – Power, Disruption and Evolution art exhibition is slated to begin on July 9, at mid-day. The participating artists include Shasha Porter, Ammoy Smith, Cerena Parkinson, Jeff Menzies, Tishana Fisher, Shediene Fletcher, Monique Gilpin,...

Published:Sunday | July 2, 2023 | 12:53 AM

A garden has many plants and trees with different flowers and fruits. Can you imagine a garden with only one plant, one flower? Similarly, this world is like a garden with a variety of flowers. Each flower is unique and special in its own way....

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2023 | 12:47 AM

Many Americans celebrated Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. For generations, black Americans have recognised the end of one of the darkest chapters in US history with joy...

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2023 | 12:45 AM

June 21 is commemorated as International Day of Yoga. More of us are becoming aware of the ancient art and science of bringing balance to life. We come together, greet each other, do some postures, breathing exercises, and meditate for some time....

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2023 | 12:44 AM

Morning of June Blessing morning of June, I thank you coming alight wishing for songs as flowering birds tune their graces to another day’s creation. My ticking clock told me, way ahead of Aurore, that you were coming to unfold the miracle...

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2023 | 12:42 AMKerry-Ann Kerr-Williams - Contributor

For the fathers who do not feel special or who seldom hear words of affirmation from those closest to you, including your children, I am directly speaking to you. Have you ever been called a ‘deadbeat dad’ or a ‘sperm donor’? Then my expressions of...

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2023 | 12:41 AM

St Hugh’s High School, one of six schools that successfully pitched for the Connected and Protected Safer Internet School Grant (SISG), effectively used the creative arts to promote online safety among the students for its recent project...

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2023 | 12:39 AM

Mico University College Child Assessment...

Published:Sunday | June 18, 2023 | 1:06 AM

A father - my first glimpse of god I know it is hard for anyone to see, What love and friendship was between my father and me. How could I not admire the strength I saw in his eyes, Strength that taught me not to lose hope in any demise. Amidst...

Published:Sunday | June 18, 2023 | 1:02 AM

“A Suh It Guh” was a photographic exhibition by Marina Burnel, a self-taught Kingston-based French photographer whose work is inspired by the city and the people who call it home. She explored the complexities of modern Jamaican society with the...

Published:Sunday | June 18, 2023 | 12:56 AM

One relationship that is bestowed to every being as a blessing is that of a parent. The role of parent comprises two sets of qualities that are given to the child by mother and father. There are two distinct roles with different sets of sustenance...

Published:Sunday | June 11, 2023 | 12:40 AM

Jamaica’s local craft industry has long been mired in a poverty of ideas and declining economic returns. The simple fact is that the model that has relied on handmade crafts of varying sizes and quality has expired, and it is only a matter of time...

Published:Sunday | June 11, 2023 | 12:38 AM

No pussy in Parliament Did I hear what I thought I just heard? Did the Member from Clarendon Just use the “P” word? Did the Member say “pussy” In this the highest Court in the land? Did the word just slip out Or was it something planned? Don’...

Published:Sunday | June 11, 2023 | 12:37 AMA short story by Karl Salmon

It was upon a time once that I stumbled on an unknown path while in search of my way home. There before me was the entrance to a forest. Confused and caught in two minds whether to trod this path or continue on familiar territory, a blind man...

Published:Sunday | June 11, 2023 | 12:35 AM

We all have heard the phrase “God helps those who help themselves”. This, essentially, means that even God cannot help someone who doesn’t want to be helped. When we see someone in pain, our natural instinct is to find a way to help them as we can’...

Published:Sunday | June 4, 2023 | 1:43 AM

PALMYRA (AP) At the height of the Islamic State group’s rampage across Syria, the world watched in horror as the militants blew up an iconic arch and temple in the country’s famed Roman ruins in Palmyra. Eight years later, IS has lost its hold...

Published:Sunday | June 4, 2023 | 1:39 AM

War Walk and run Bomb and gun This is no fun Is it about the oil? Is it about the soil? You choose Either way you lose Let’s get serious Are we destroying the genius? Wait!! Is that someone family on the tar? Or is it your family in...

Published:Sunday | June 4, 2023 | 1:25 AM

Our world is no longer the same as it used to be. Our smart devices bombard us every second with an abundance of information, most of which is unnecessary in our daily lives. Where does all that information ultimately land? In the mind!...

Published:Sunday | June 4, 2023 | 1:24 AM

“A Suh It Guh”, a photographic retrospective of Marina Burnel, a Kingston-based French photographer whose work is inspired by the city and the people who call it home. Far away from her home in Normandy, the overt sensory overload of Kingston’s...

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