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World beaters, grateful nation bid legendary track and field coach goodbye
August 16 12:20 AM
Franno’s last lap
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Morant Bay vendors taking a hit, but still welcome fast food restaurant to St Thomas capital
August 16 12:18 AM
KFC eats into jerk sales
Entertainment, ...
Aspiring professionals to benefit from two-day screenwriters’ workshop
August 16 12:16 AM
Vision. Mission. Spirit. Impact
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Residents still waiting for real protection after riverbank work
August 16 12:14 AM
Fears flow in St Thomas
Athletics, ...
Athletics fraternity gives late MVP head coach final send-off
August 16 12:12 AM
‘WE GO ABOVE GOLD’
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No timeline for rebuild or expansion of tax offices in St Elizabeth
August 16 12:09 AM
New Mandeville tax office to open by year end
Business, Latest News
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.
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...
Business, Latest News
Every week this column shows what AI can do for a finance team. This week, the other side of the ledger: how these tools fail, where your data goes when you press send, and the short list of things that should never be pasted into a chat window.
August 7, 2026
For nine weeks this column has argued that AI belongs in the Jamaican finance office: forecasting cash flow, cleaning a year of receipts, turning spre...
Business, Latest News
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.
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...
Business, Latest News
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?
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...
Business, Latest News
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.
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...
Business, Latest News
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.
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...
Business, Latest News
The drawer of crumpled receipts is a Jamaican small-business rite of passage. Point Claude’s new desktop app at a folder of hundreds of receipts and bank exports, describe the mess in plain English, and it reads, sorts, and tidies the whole pile in place — so you keep the judgement and lose the lost weekend.
July 3, 2026
Every small-business owner knows the feeling. It is the week before the accountant needs everything, and the year’s record-keeping is a drawer of crum...
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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...
Business, Latest News
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.
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...
Latest News, Regional
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...
Business, Latest News
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.
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 ...
Business, Latest News
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
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...
International News, Latest News
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...
International News, Latest News
May 7, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) -- Generative artificial intelligence is being used by 17.8 per cent of the world's working-age population, but the...
International News, Latest News
February 19, 2026
NEW DEHLI, India (AFP) — The world urgently needs to regulate artificial intelligence, OpenAI head Sam Altman said Thursday at a summit in New Delhi ...
Latest News, Regional
February 13, 2026
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has commended the vital role of radio in t...
Latest News, News
February 13, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Delano Seiveright, is urging young Jamaicans to move beyon...
Business, Latest News
February 10, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape the global customer service landscape, major players in Jamaica’s business pr...
Business, Latest News, News
EY Caribbean forum highlights need for people-focused technological development amid AI boom
January 15, 2026
Amid the proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, professional services organisation EY Caribbean is urging regional wor...
International News, Latest News
November 16, 2025
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) -- South Korean conglomerate Samsung unveiled on Sunday a plan to invest US$310 billion over the next five years mostly in te...
International News, Latest News
November 6, 2025
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- "Vibe coding," a word that essentially means using artificial intelligence (AI) to tell a machine what you want instea...
Latest News, News
October 27, 2025
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Artificial intelligence (AI) generated videos were clogging social media feeds Monday as Hurricane Melissa surged to...
World beaters, grateful nation bid legendary track and field coach goodbye
August 16, 2026
Franno’s last lap
Morant Bay vendors taking a hit, but still welcome fast food restaurant to St Thomas capital
August 16, 2026
KFC eats into jerk sales
Entertainment, ...
Aspiring professionals to benefit from two-day screenwriters’ workshop
August 16, 2026
Vision. Mission. Spirit. Impact
Residents still waiting for real protection after riverbank work
August 16, 2026
Fears flow in St Thomas
Athletics, ...
Athletics fraternity gives late MVP head coach final send-off
August 16, 2026
‘WE GO ABOVE GOLD’
