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LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom (AFP)—Alexander Isak faces two months on the sidelines after fracturing his leg in a "reckless challenge" from Tottenham's M...
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) -The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) in Guyana says one person is assisting its investigations after mercury, valued at GU...
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—Thousands of new documents linked to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were made available Tuesday by...
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MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Two men were shot dead by gunmen at a bar on Manchester Road in Mandeville on Monday night. Their identities have not yet been r...
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Kasey Williams | Reporter 
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Zoo Lights serves up whimsy, wonder and merriment
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Holgate blames ‘quality’ players for Boyz’s failure to automatically qualify for World Cup
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Holgate blames ‘quality’ players for Boyz’s failure to automatically qualify for World Cup
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December 23 12:14 AM
Holgate blames ‘quality’ players for Boyz’s failure to automatically qualify for World Cup
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Libya evacuates flooded city as searchers look for 10,000 missing after death toll passes 11,000
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Libya evacuates flooded city as searchers look for 10,000 missing after death toll passes 11,000
September 15, 2023
DERNA, Libya (AP) — Libyan authorities evacuated residents from an inundated city Friday and limited access to it, as searchers dug through mud and ho...
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Gov’t to undertake US$209-m water improvement project in northwestern parishes
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Gov’t to undertake US$209-m water improvement project in northwestern parishes
September 4, 2023
ST JAMES, Jamaica - The Government will be spending approximately US$209 million to implement the Northwestern Parishes Reliability and Service Improv...
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GG urges support for National Poppy Appeal drive
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GG urges support for National Poppy Appeal drive
August 17, 2023
ST JAMES, Jamaica - Governor-General, Sir Patrick Allen, has appealed to Jamaicans to wholeheartedly support the annual Poppy Appeal, a time-honoured ...
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NWA’s CEO to directly supervise St Thomas road works
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NWA’s CEO to directly supervise St Thomas road works
July 10, 2023
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that the National Works Agency’s (NWA) chief executive officer (CEO), E.G. Hunter, wil...
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ReggaeBoyz through to Gold Cup quarterfinals
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ReggaeBoyz through to Gold Cup quarterfinals
July 2, 2023
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Reggae Boyz are through to the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup after beating St Kitts/Nevis 5-0 in their final group ga...
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70-y-o Jamaican woman found dead in Fort Lauderdale
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70-y-o Jamaican woman found dead in Fort Lauderdale
June 9, 2023
The Broward County Sheriff's Office in the United States revealed on Friday that the body of a 70-year-old Jamaican woman reported missing two days ag...
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Delivery man charged with indecent assault, to pay $80,000 in restitution
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Delivery man charged with indecent assault, to pay $80,000 in restitution
June 4, 2023
KINGSTON, Jamaica - A delivery man was hit with an indecent assault charge after he reportedly forcefully kissed a woman at a business place he was ma...
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Get the facts on healthy ageing
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Get the facts on healthy ageing
April 8, 2023
FOR most older adults good health ensures independence, security, and productivity as they age. Yet millions of people struggle every day with health ...
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Retiring too early can bring more harm than good
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Retiring too early can bring more harm than good
April 8, 2023
IN the United States of America April is recognised as Financial Literacy Month, which I believe is an initiative that Jamaica and the rest of the Car...
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Scientists seek Alzheimer’s clues from few who escaped genetic fate
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Scientists seek Alzheimer’s clues from few who escaped genetic fate
March 18, 2023
ST LOUIS, United States (AP) — Doug Whitney inherited the same gene mutation that gave Alzheimer's disease to his mother, brother and generations of o...
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Retired and unhappy?
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Retired and unhappy?
March 18, 2023
For some retirees, the happiest times of their lives were spent during their working years. There were uphill and downhill moments, but it was a time ...
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King Charles faces ‘not my king’ protest
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King Charles faces ‘not my king’ protest
February 16, 2023
King Charles III on Thursday encountered a group of anti-monarchy activists while on walkabout in the city of Milton Keynes, north of London. A group ...
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SCJH moving to maximise use of former sugar lands
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SCJH moving to maximise use of former sugar lands
February 15, 2023
THE Sugar Company of Jamaica Holdings Limited (SCJH) is moving to increase the availability of former sugar land to investors during the 2023/24 fisca...
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Haitians need our support
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Haitians need our support
February 14, 2023
Dear Editor, I write to you today to address the current situation in Haiti and the involvement of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), inclusive of Jam...
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Walk the tree-planting talk
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Walk the tree-planting talk
December 29, 2022
Dear Editor, There is an old Jamaican proverb, "Cow neva know di use a him tail til fly tek it". Given the recent furore over the renovation of Devon ...
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Finally, a move to think and act big
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Finally, a move to think and act big
December 1, 2022
For years now, we have consistently urged the Government to think big in relation to investment, pointing to the fight put up by Washington state in t...
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The Caribbean and the rebirth of black civilisation
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The Caribbean and the rebirth of black civilisation
BY LENROD NZULU BARAKA 
November 24, 2022
Caribbean thinkers and political activists were some of the prime movers and shakers in the early pan-African ideology that swept across North and Sou...
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9 dead, including 4 women, in attack on bar in Mexico
November 11, 2022
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nine people are dead, including four women, after gunmen burst into a bar and opened fire in the violence-wracked Mexican state of ...
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T&T school to reopen a week after gunmen exchange gunfire outside location
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T&T school to reopen a week after gunmen exchange gunfire outside location
November 7, 2022
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad’s National Security Minister, Fitzgerald Hinds, Monday said the Rose Hill RC Primary School in the capital, wi...
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Councillor wants relocation of St Andrew South Eastern constituency office
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Councillor wants relocation of St Andrew South Eastern constituency office
October 6, 2022
JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) councillor for the Trafalgar Division Kari Douglas has called out Member of Parliament (MP) Julian Robinson for operating h...
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