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Forex: $158.96 to one US dollar
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Forex: $158.96 to one US dollar
July 15 05:12 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica —  The United States (US) dollar on Wednesday, July 15, ended at $158.98, down by 15 cents, according to the Bank of Jamaica’s daily...
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PNP mourns passing of reggae icon Fantan Mojah
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PNP mourns passing of reggae icon Fantan Mojah
July 15 04:57 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica  —  Opposition Spokesperson on Creative Industries and Culture, Nekeisha Burchell, has expressed deep sadness at the passing of accl...
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Argentina beat England 2-1 to reach World Cup final
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Argentina beat England 2-1 to reach World Cup final
July 15 04:15 PM
ATLANTA, United States (AFP) — Reigning champions Argentina came from behind to beat England 2-1 on Wednesday and reached their second World Cup final...
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France’s parliament adopts assisted dying law
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France’s parliament adopts assisted dying law
July 15 03:25 PM
PARIS, France (AFP) — France on Wednesday moved closer to joining the ranks of countries that guarantee the right to assisted dying for adults sufferi...
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JLP recommits to caring for most vulnerable as it recalls 1999 ‘Street People Scandal’
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JLP recommits to caring for most vulnerable as it recalls 1999 ‘Street People Scandal’
July 15 02:06 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) says it is recommitting to continue along a path of pursuing additional policies that sho...
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TODSS calls for urgent review of Road Traffic Act, urges operators to contest tickets in court
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TODSS calls for urgent review of Road Traffic Act, urges operators to contest tickets in court
July 15 01:41 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Transport Operators Development Sustainable Service (TODSS) is calling for an immediate review of the Road Traffic and Transpo...
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Lee-Chin’s Portland Holdings targets Türkiye’s nuclear energy sector
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Lee-Chin’s Portland Holdings targets Türkiye’s nuclear energy sector
July 15 01:39 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Michael Lee-Chin’s Portland Holdings has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Turkish nuclear technology company Nuclea...
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ICC rejects challenge by ‘angel of death’ prison chief accused of torture, rape
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ICC rejects challenge by ‘angel of death’ prison chief accused of torture, rape
July 15 12:22 PM
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The International Criminal Court said Wednesday that it had rejected a challenge to the tribunal's jurisdiction by a fo...
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Music industry launches AI-generated content labels
July 10, 2026
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Several major music industry organisations on Friday unveiled a labeling system for content created with generative ar...
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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...
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Chinese company UBTech launches hyper-real humanoid robots for lonely people
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Chinese company UBTech launches hyper-real humanoid robots for lonely people
July 10, 2026
SHENZHEN, China (AFP)—Their metallic frames covered in supple, lifelike skin, a posse of new Chinese robots meant for companionship can offer users AI...
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Daley calls for stronger laws to combat cyberbullying and AI-enabled abuse
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Daley calls for stronger laws to combat cyberbullying and AI-enabled abuse
July 2, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Opposition Spokesperson on Gender Affairs, Persons with Disabilities and the Elderly, Denise Daley is calling for Jamaica to strengt...
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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 ...
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Future Caribbean launches global agentic AI buildathon
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Future Caribbean launches global agentic AI buildathon
June 26, 2026
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Future Caribbean is launching what it believes is the world’s first global agentic AI buildathon designed to strengthen the Car...
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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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UN chief urges AI firms to ‘come clean’ over environmental footprint
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UN chief urges AI firms to ‘come clean’ over environmental footprint
June 23, 2026
PARIS, France (AFP) — United Nations (UN) chief Antonio Guterres challenged artificial intelligence (AI) firms on Tuesday to disclose their growing en...
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T&T cocoa company exploring AI to support Caribbean farmers amid supply disruption
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T&T cocoa company exploring AI to support Caribbean farmers amid supply disruption
VANASSA MCKENZIE, Online reporter, mckenziev@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 20, 2026
Amid a supply disruption in the global cocoa industry, fueled by extreme weather and crop diseases, a Trinidad and Tobago-based company aims to levera...
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A dashboard in minutes — no analyst, no software, no wait
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A dashboard in minutes — no analyst, no software, no wait
Interactive dashboards used to mean weeks of work and expensive software. Now a single plain-English prompt — to Claude, Copilot, or ChatGPT — turns a static sales spreadsheet into something a manager can actually click through and explore.
Peta-Gaye Hardy, Founder, PGH Consulting, LLC 
June 19, 2026
Picture your weekly Monday management meeting. The numbers exist, buried in a spreadsheet with 11 tabs that only one person knows how to navigate. So ...
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Gov’t workers to receive mandatory training in AI
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Gov’t workers to receive mandatory training in AI
June 17, 2026
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Government workers are to receive mandatory training in artificial intelligence (AI) as part of efforts to improve public-sector e...
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Cash flow forecasting in minutes, not days — with Claude, even when the JMD/USD rate won’t sit still
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Cash flow forecasting in minutes, not days — with Claude, even when the JMD/USD rate won’t sit still
It used to take days. Claude, the AI now built into Excel, builds a 13-week cash flow forecast and stress-tests it against every JMD/USD scenario in minutes — even for a one-person finance team
Peta-Gaye Hardy, Founder, PGH Consulting, LLC 
June 12, 2026
Ask any Jamaican importer what keeps them up at night and the answer is rarely sales. It is the gap between the day they pay their supplier in US doll...
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Visa, OpenAI partner to enable payments through AI agents
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Visa, OpenAI partner to enable payments through AI agents
June 11, 2026
Visa has partnered with OpenAI to enable secure payments within AI-powered commerce experiences, as the payments giant moves to position its network f...
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SpaceX to make historic IPO that could make Musk a trillionaire
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SpaceX to make historic IPO that could make Musk a trillionaire
June 11, 2026
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Elon Musk's SpaceX on Thursday confirmed it will begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Friday in the biggest initial...
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EU rejects Apple blame for delayed Siri AI rollout
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EU rejects Apple blame for delayed Siri AI rollout
June 9, 2026
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — The European Union (EU) on Tuesday rejected Apple's blame for the delayed rollout of its AI-enhanced voice assistant, saying...
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Brown asserts Jamaica not building modern economy
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Brown asserts Jamaica not building modern economy
June 7, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Opposition Spokesman on Science, Technology and Digital Transformation, Christopher Brown, has charged that the country is going i...
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UK MP sues Musk’s xAI over fake sexualised images of her
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UK MP sues Musk’s xAI over fake sexualised images of her
June 4, 2026
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A British lawmaker has filed a case at London's High Court against Elon Musk's xAI after its Grok chatbot tool was used...
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Global media join forces to confront AI challenges
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Global media join forces to confront AI challenges
June 3, 2026
MARSEILLE, France (AFP) — Around 30 European and North American media outlets on Wednesday joined a coalition launched by Britain's BBC, Sky News and ...
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Trump signs order giving government access to powerful AI models
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Trump signs order giving government access to powerful AI models
June 2, 2026
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States (US) President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order creating a voluntary framework under ...
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Mathematicians say ‘don’t believe hype’ on AI capabilities
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Mathematicians say ‘don’t believe hype’ on AI capabilities
June 2, 2026
PARIS, France (AFP) — Dozens of mathematicians signed a declaration Tuesday calling for the discipline to resist beating the drum for artificial intel...
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Florida sues OpenAI, CEO Altman over ChatGPT harm to minors
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Florida sues OpenAI, CEO Altman over ChatGPT harm to minors
June 1, 2026
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Florida's attorney general on Monday sued OpenAI and its chief executive officer (CEO) Sam Altman, accusing the compan...
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Survey finds generational gap in attitudes to AI romance
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Survey finds generational gap in attitudes to AI romance
June 1, 2026
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) -- Almost 50 per cent of young adults in six major economies think AI romantic companionship will improve human happiness throug...
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Forex: $158.96 to one US dollar
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Forex: $158.96 to one US dollar
July 15, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica —  The United States (US) dollar on Wednesday, July 15, ended at $158.98, down by 15 cents, according to the Bank of Jamaica’s daily...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
PNP mourns passing of reggae icon Fantan Mojah
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PNP mourns passing of reggae icon Fantan Mojah
July 15, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica  —  Opposition Spokesperson on Creative Industries and Culture, Nekeisha Burchell, has expressed deep sadness at the passing of accl...
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Argentina beat England 2-1 to reach World Cup final
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Argentina beat England 2-1 to reach World Cup final
July 15, 2026
ATLANTA, United States (AFP) — Reigning champions Argentina came from behind to beat England 2-1 on Wednesday and reached their second World Cup final...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
France’s parliament adopts assisted dying law
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France’s parliament adopts assisted dying law
July 15, 2026
PARIS, France (AFP) — France on Wednesday moved closer to joining the ranks of countries that guarantee the right to assisted dying for adults sufferi...
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JLP recommits to caring for most vulnerable as it recalls 1999 ‘Street People Scandal’
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JLP recommits to caring for most vulnerable as it recalls 1999 ‘Street People Scandal’
July 15, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) says it is recommitting to continue along a path of pursuing additional policies that sho...
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