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Kenya court blocks US Ebola quarantine centre set to open on Friday
May 29 08:09 AM
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — A Kenyan court temporarily halted the opening of an Ebola quarantine centre for United States (US) citizens on Friday following...
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WHO announces first confirmed Ebola recovery in DRC outbreak
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GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday announced the first recovery of a confirmed Ebola patient in the outbreak ra...
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PAHO signs agreement to strengthen disease elimination and cervical cancer prevention
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WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says it has signed a technical cooperation agreement with the Madrid-bas...
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UN says more than a million people displaced in Haiti
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UNITED NATIONS (CMC) — The United Nations (UN) says nearly 1.5 million people in Haiti had been displaced as of May this year, with 95,000 newly displ...
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Trinidad reporting several suspected cases of chickenpox
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Health authorities in Trinidad and Tobago say they are “actively managing several suspected and probable cases” of var...
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College pipeline crisis
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College pipeline crisis
Tertiary institutions jostle for the 20% of CSEC students who make the grade
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
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Garage blast claims one life
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Garage blast claims one life
Beryllium airlifts two victims overseas for treatment
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Jugglings then & now
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10 years great!
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One Great Studio Company Limited (1GS), a digital-first agency helping companies to drive profit and purpose by leveraging digital marketing tools acr...
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Hydroponics for resilient farming
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Hydroponics for resilient farming
Codie-ann Barrett | Business Reporter 
April 4, 2023
WHILE traditional farmers are crying in the drought, hydroponic farmers are unmoved. Although the losses for farmers in the drought period have not ye...
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Erica Anderson: Never stop learning
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Erica Anderson: Never stop learning
March 7, 2023
Erica Anderson is chief operating officer at fintech firm Lynk. With 25 years of experience in her field, she has been driven by her desire to make th...
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SO Love Songs
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SO Love Songs
February 11, 2023
The language of love can be translated in many ways. But the most universal? Music! As Valentine's Day nears, we thought we'd cut through the noise an...
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2022 success: iOS 16’s lock screen
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2022 success: iOS 16’s lock screen
December 20, 2022
In 2022, Apple introduced iOS 16, which brought with it vastly improved lock screens — and made the iPhone so much better. With iOS 16, you can now se...
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Flow gives helping hand as Bucknor seeks change for the better
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Flow gives helping hand as Bucknor seeks change for the better
December 14, 2022
Famed US author and teacher Margaret Wheatley once said, “There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.” This...
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Blair Lilford creating a tech climate
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Blair Lilford creating a tech climate
November 15, 2022
Zimbabwe native, CEO and founder of SALT Technology Group Blair Lilford recounts that he became intrigued by technology in his early years. During tha...
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‘Unprecedented’
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‘Unprecedented’
November 15, 2022
MINISTER of Agriculture and Fisheries Pearnel Charles Jr has loaded farmers for contributing to a sixth-consecutive quarter of growth in agricultural ...
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Women in tech: An endangered species
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Women in tech: An endangered species
November 15, 2022
At a recent cybersecurity technology vendor event the number of women present was significantly lower than their male counterparts. There was one woma...
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Timely price cut for fertilisers
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Timely price cut for fertilisers
November 15, 2022
CONSEQUENT on Newport-Fersan (Jamaica) Limited's announcement last week of price cuts on a number of fertilisers, Minister of Agriculture and Fisherie...
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Urgent action needed to curb fertiliser crisis
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Urgent action needed to curb fertiliser crisis
November 15, 2022
A study looking into current volatility in the fertilisers market and its impact on agricultural production was issued on November 14, 2022 by the Wor...
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Antonette Brown: Early fascination leads to tech career
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Antonette Brown: Early fascination leads to tech career
November 8, 2022
Jamaican-born Antonette Brown, IT project manager at ArchCare, recounts she was fascinated by how technology could solve various problems in different...
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Battling cyberattacks
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Battling cyberattacks
November 8, 2022
We have all heard horror stories about cybercrime. Businesses have had their network hacked, customer data stolen, and money siphoned away. But what's...
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Initiative launched to address cadmium levels in cocoa
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Initiative launched to address cadmium levels in cocoa
November 8, 2022
The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO) launched the project 'Improving cap...
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Larkland Morley, Jamaican in Google Cloud
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Larkland Morley, Jamaican in Google Cloud
November 1, 2022
Clarendon native Larkland Morley, now technical programme manager – cloud infrastructure strategy at Google, recounts that his first interactions wi...
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Farmers crucial to agricultural solutions to climate change
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Farmers crucial to agricultural solutions to climate change
November 1, 2022
San Jose , Costa Rica (IICA) — As human beings, we cannot do without agriculture, the main source of food. Food is a basic human right, but its produc...
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WhatsApp users to message themselves
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WhatsApp users to message themselves
November 1, 2022
The social media space is keeping eyes on the latest from WhatsApp, which is rolling out a "Message Yourself" feature to a small group of beta iOS and...
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Musk takes the axe to Twitter
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Musk takes the axe to Twitter
November 1, 2022
Twitter employees got their first ultimatum from new boss Elon Musk: i ntroduce paid verification by November 7 or be fired. Musk has been explicit in...
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Jamaica Broilers takes flight from Haiti
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Jamaica Broilers takes flight from Haiti
BY DAVID ROSE Observer business writer davidr@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 29, 2022
After entering Haiti 12 years ago, Jamaica Broilers Group Limited (JBG) has decided to pull the plug and discontinue its operations in the French-spea...
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Survival mode
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Survival mode
September 29, 2022
Members of the small business community say recent rate hikes by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has sent them into "survival mode". Donovan Wignall, presid...
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Barbados issues a blue bond
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Barbados issues a blue bond
September 29, 2022
THE Government of Barbados has secured BB$146.52 million from the issuance of a dual currency blue bond with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and...
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NGC Trinidad half-year profits up 260 per cent
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NGC Trinidad half-year profits up 260 per cent
September 29, 2022
THE National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC), together with its subsidiaries (collectively the group), recorded profit of TT$1.6 bill...
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