48-hour curfew imposed in sections of Hanover
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48-hour curfew imposed in sections of Hanover
August 25 07:14 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in sections of the Mount Peace district in the Hanover Police Division. The curfew will begin at...
El Salvador declares alert due to drought linked to El Nino
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El Salvador declares alert due to drought linked to El Nino
August 25 06:54 PM
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) — El Salvador declared a state of maximum alert on Tuesday due to a drought linked to the El Nino phenomenon, which ha...
Myoka stands firm with ‘Rock Stone’
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Myoka stands firm with ‘Rock Stone’
August 25 06:34 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Recording artiste Myoka is celebrating Jamaica’s strength and resilience with her latest single, Rock Stone, recorded on Stephen “...
UN secretary-general condemns latest gang attack in Haiti
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UN secretary-general condemns latest gang attack in Haiti
August 25 06:22 PM
UNITED NATIONS (CMC) – United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, Tuesday condemned the latest gang attack that left more than 30 people...

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Australia’s top music charts ban AI songs
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Australia’s top music charts ban AI songs
August 24, 2026
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP)—Music made by artificial intelligence will be banned from Australia's top charts under new guidelines aimed at protecting "the...
Chief justice cites AI as tool to enhance court operations
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Chief justice cites AI as tool to enhance court operations
August 24, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Chief Justice Bryan Sykes says artificial intelligence (AI) should not be viewed as a replacement for court officials but rather as ...
CEO says young people must be prepared for AI-driven world
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CEO says young people must be prepared for AI-driven world
August 24, 2026
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Young people must be prepared for an increasingly artificial intelligence (AI)-driven world, says Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of...
Your attacker has an AI assistant too — what a security demonstration this month means for the way you approve payments
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Your attacker has an AI assistant too — what a security demonstration this month means for the way you approve payments
Every week this column shows what AI can do for a finance team. This week, the other side of the table: researchers used an AI assistant sitting inside a hacked mailbox to map a company, impersonate its chief executive, find a US$247,500 wire transfer waiting for approval, and redirect it. The controls that stop this cost nothing
Peta-Gaye Hardy, Founder, PGH Consulting, LLC 
August 21, 2026
A company approves a wire transfer to an overseas supplier. The invoice is real, the supplier is real, the amount matches the contract. The only thing...
The invisible watermark — AI-written text can now be identified, and what that means for your business
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The invisible watermark — AI-written text can now be identified, and what that means for your business
Every week this column shows what AI can do for a finance team. This week, a change announced just days ago: Claude now embeds an invisible watermark in the text it generates, which means AI-assisted work is becoming identifiable — and the businesses with nothing to adjust are the ones that never pretended otherwise.
Peta-Gaye Hardy, Founder, PGH Consulting, LLC 
August 14, 2026
On Tuesday, 11 August, Anthropic confirmed a change this column has been expecting for a while: text generated by its newest Claude models now carries...
Singapore criminalises AI-generated abuse images
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Singapore criminalises AI-generated abuse images
August 14, 2026
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Singapore authorities prepare to enforce legislation that goes into effect on Monday, protecting citizens from online sex...
AI for due diligence — how to read a 200-page document before you sign it
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AI for due diligence — how to read a 200-page document before you sign it
Every week this column shows what AI can do for a finance team. This week: due diligence for the rest of us — the leases, loan letters, and business purchases that arrive as a mountain of PDF, and how AI helps you read every page before the deadline does.
Peta-Gaye Hardy, Founder, PGH Consulting, LLC 
July 31, 2026
Consider a Jamaican business that gets the chance to buy a smaller competitor. The price is fair, the fit is good, and the seller’s attorney sends ove...
ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot — which AI assistant does your small finance team actually need?
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ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot — which AI assistant does your small finance team actually need?
Every week this column shows what AI can do for a finance team. This week it answers the question readers ask most, usually with a price page already open: which one should a small Jamaican office actually pay for?
Peta-Gaye Hardy, Founder, PGH Consulting, LLC 
July 24, 2026
By now somebody has told you that your business needs AI. Perhaps it was your accountant, who swears by ChatGPT. Perhaps your IT support company, whic...
Your first AI agent — teach Microsoft 365 Copilot to draft the month-end commentary your way
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Your first AI agent — teach Microsoft 365 Copilot to draft the month-end commentary your way
Every month you type the same long instructions into a chat window and attach the same files. This week you write those instructions once, attach the files once, and hand the whole routine to an agent your team can share.
Peta-Gaye Hardy, Founder, PGH Consulting, LLC 
July 17, 2026
Somewhere on your computer there is a note holding your best prompt. You know the one: the paragraph you paste into an AI chat at month-end, refined o...
From Excel to slides in minutes — Claude now works inside your spreadsheet and your deck
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From Excel to slides in minutes — Claude now works inside your spreadsheet and your deck
The books close on Tuesday; the board deck used to take until Friday. Claude now works inside both Excel and PowerPoint — and because the two add-ins share one conversation, this month’s numbers flow from the workbook into the deck without a single copy-paste.
Peta-Gaye Hardy, Founder, PGH Consulting, LLC 
July 10, 2026
Every finance team has the ritual. The books close, the Excel pack is updated, and then someone loses a day to the deck: copy the chart, paste it into...
Guyana president urges accountants to embrace AI
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Guyana president urges accountants to embrace AI
June 27, 2026
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – President Irfaan Ali has urged accountants across the Caribbean to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), adapt to changing ...
Ten prompts that will 10x your results — and the one habit behind all of them
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Ten prompts that will 10x your results — and the one habit behind all of them
Most people type a question into AI the way they’d type it into Google. The professionals getting ten times the value are doing something different: they give the tool a role, the context and the exact output they want — then they refine. Here are ten prompts you can use this week, by job.
Peta-Gaye Hardy, Founder, PGH Consulting, LLC 
June 26, 2026
Two people open the same artificial intelligence (AI) assistant to tackle the same task. The first types, “help me with my budget”. Back comes a gener...

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