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HOUSTON, United States (AFP)—A Venezuelan delegation will participate in this week's G20 energy meetings in Texas, US officials said Monday, as the wo...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica —The Independent Commission of Investigations (Indecom) says it is monitoring an increase in multiple-fatality shootings involving m...
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September 14 08:45 PM
FLORIDA, United States (CMC)—St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew on Sunday confirmed that he had suffered a stroke late last month, but...
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September 14 07:58 PM
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AFP)—The Panama Canal is planning further reductions to maritime traffic through the waterway after already slashing numbers due ...
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September 14 07:35 PM
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP)—The Emmy Awards kicked off Monday in Los Angeles to celebrate television's brightest stars, with horror-comedy series...
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September 14 07:20 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica—For many Jamaican students, mathematics can feel like an unsolvable equation. Your Actuary Tutor JA (YATJA) believes it has found pa...
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September 14 06:57 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—The United States (US) Supreme Court dealt a major blow Monday to President Donald Trump's attempts to restrict mail-i...
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September 14 06:17 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — For 14-year-old Shani Williams, receiving an $80,000 scholarship from CB Chicken brought relief and a big smile. The Holy Childhoo...
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Every week this column shows what AI can do for a finance team. This week, what it costs. ChatGPT is now carrying advertising in a growing list of countries, on the free plan and on the cheapest paid one. Jamaica is not on that list yet, but the direction is settled, and it is a good moment to work out which plan your business is actually on
August 28, 2026
Earlier this year OpenAI said ChatGPT had passed 900 million weekly users, and that more than 50 million people paid for a consumer subscription. The ...
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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
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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
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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September 14, 2026
HOUSTON, United States (AFP)—A Venezuelan delegation will participate in this week's G20 energy meetings in Texas, US officials said Monday, as the wo...
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September 14, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica —The Independent Commission of Investigations (Indecom) says it is monitoring an increase in multiple-fatality shootings involving m...
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September 14, 2026
FLORIDA, United States (CMC)—St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew on Sunday confirmed that he had suffered a stroke late last month, but...
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September 14, 2026
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AFP)—The Panama Canal is planning further reductions to maritime traffic through the waterway after already slashing numbers due ...
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September 14, 2026
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP)—The Emmy Awards kicked off Monday in Los Angeles to celebrate television's brightest stars, with horror-comedy series...
