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School canteens to provide one-third of recommended daily calories – Morris Dixon
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School canteens to provide one-third of recommended daily calories – Morris Dixon
May 11 04:38 PM
School canteens will provide one-third of the recommended 2,000 daily calorie intake for students on the Government’s school feeding programme. Minist...
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Stacey Mirander impresses with cover of Roberta Flack’s ‘Feel Like Making Love’
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Stacey Mirander impresses with cover of Roberta Flack’s ‘Feel Like Making Love’
May 11 03:18 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Florida-based reggae fusion singer Stacey Mirander is almost reverent in her praise of the vocal brilliance of late soul superstar...
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Motorcyclist critically injured in St James crash
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Motorcyclist critically injured in St James crash
May 11 03:06 PM
ST JAMES,  Trelawny — A motorcyclist was rushed to hospital in critical condition following a collision with a motorcar along the Long Bay main road i...
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Orba leverages SMART codes to accelerate AI rollout
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Orba leverages SMART codes to accelerate AI rollout
May 11 02:59 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica —  Jamaican companies in the fast food delivery and cooking gas distribution sectors are now able to leverage artificial intelligenc...
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HAPPENING NOW: PM, Minister Grange sit with mother of slain 9-year-old
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HAPPENING NOW: PM, Minister Grange sit with mother of slain 9-year-old
May 11 02:47 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Member of Parliament for St Catherine Central, Olivia Grange, speaking with the grieving mother ...
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PNP to tap Special Economic Zone for sustained growth says Hylton
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PNP to tap Special Economic Zone for sustained growth says Hylton
May 11 02:41 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Opposition Spokesman on Trade, Industry, Investment & Global Logistics, Anthony Hylton says the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Auth...
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Education Ministry spending $4.5B to upgrade schools – Morris Dixon
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Education Ministry spending $4.5B to upgrade schools – Morris Dixon
May 11 01:43 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information (MoESYI) is spending $4.8 billion to upgrade hundreds of schools across t...
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Gov’t pursuing energy equity – Vaz
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Gov’t pursuing energy equity – Vaz
May 11 01:18 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Community Electrification Project is another decisive step by the Government in the unwavering pursuit of energy equity, says ...
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ChatGPT adds shopping help, intensifying Google rivalry
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ChatGPT adds shopping help, intensifying Google rivalry
April 28, 2025
San Francisco, United States (AFP)— OpenAI announced Monday that ChatGPT is now helping users find products online, enhancing its challenge to Google ...
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Flow honours female talent at International Girls in ICT Day
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Flow honours female talent at International Girls in ICT Day
April 25, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Thirty girls and young women who have been making an impact in the information, communication, and technology (ICT) space in Jamai...
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Google has illegal monopoly in ad tech, US judge rules
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Google has illegal monopoly in ad tech, US judge rules
April 17, 2025
Washington, United States (AFP)-A US judge on Thursday ruled that Google illegally wielded monopoly power in the online ad technology market, in a leg...
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ICT Authority now operational — OPM
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ICT Authority now operational — OPM
April 2, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Authority has been officially established to provide a single authoritative vo...
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Gov’t invests $8.2 billion under technology in schools policy — Williams
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Gov’t invests $8.2 billion under technology in schools policy — Williams
March 25, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Government has invested $8.2 billion in tablets, laptops, interactive panels, projectors and specialised equipment for special...
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Apple co-founder Wozniak blasts tech’s ‘direct role’ in US politics
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Apple co-founder Wozniak blasts tech’s ‘direct role’ in US politics
March 4, 2025
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Maverick Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on Tuesday took aim at big tech's "direct role" in United States (US) politics, sayin...
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Education Minister highlights character and technology as dual pillars for Jamaica’s future progress
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Education Minister highlights character and technology as dual pillars for Jamaica’s future progress
March 1, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dana Morris Dixon, has emphasised that Jamaica’s progress hinges not...
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Microsoft joins quantum race with breakthrough chip
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Microsoft joins quantum race with breakthrough chip
February 19, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Tech giant Microsoft unveiled a new computer chip on Wednesday that it says could transform everything from fight...
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Meta plans undersea cable to link five continents
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Meta plans undersea cable to link five continents
February 18, 2025
PARIS, France (AFP) — Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has said it will lay an undersea cable stretching across five continents to carry dat...
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YouTube, the online video powerhouse, turns 20
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YouTube, the online video powerhouse, turns 20
February 11, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — YouTube has evolved from a dinner party lark 20 years ago into a modern lifestyle staple poised to overtake Unite...
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Former Google exec joins Y Smart Data to develop Jamaican address codes
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Former Google exec joins Y Smart Data to develop Jamaican address codes
February 1, 2025
KINSGTON, Jamaica - Former Google executive working on the monetisation of Google Maps, Natalie Bennett, has joined local tech firm Y Smart Data as it...
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Ministry pursuing partnerships to integrate more technology in agriculture
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Ministry pursuing partnerships to integrate more technology in agriculture
January 29, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining is looking to partner with private-sector companies to integrate more technology...
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Heinz Simonitsch School partners with LearningHub to transform student learning
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Heinz Simonitsch School partners with LearningHub to transform student learning
January 11, 2025
ST JAMES, Jamaica — The Heinz Simonitsch School (HSS), known for its unwavering commitment to "Changing Average into Amazing" has partnered with the L...
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Regulating online hate speech ‘not censorship’: UN rights chief
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Regulating online hate speech ‘not censorship’: UN rights chief
January 10, 2025
The UN rights chief insisted Friday that regulating hate speech and harmful content online "is not censorship", days after Meta scrapped its fact-chec...
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Microsoft expects to spend US$80b on AI this fiscal year
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Microsoft expects to spend US$80b on AI this fiscal year
January 3, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Microsoft president Brad Smith on Friday said the company is on track to pump about US$80 billion into artificial...
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UK study warns of perils in AI-driven ‘intention economy’
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UK study warns of perils in AI-driven ‘intention economy’
December 30, 2024
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) tools may soon "covertly influence" users' decision making in a new commerc...
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Tech Beach Retreat pushing for more ground-breaking investment for the Caribbean start-up ecosystem
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Tech Beach Retreat pushing for more ground-breaking investment for the Caribbean start-up ecosystem
December 6, 2024
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Tech Beach Retreat (TBR), the premier technology and innovation conference, is pushing for more ground-breaking investment for the...
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C&W Business named as a partner for Tech Beach Retreat for 4th year
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C&W Business named as a partner for Tech Beach Retreat for 4th year
December 3, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica- C&W Business has returned as a partner for the 2024 staging of Tech Beach Retreat (TBR), scheduled to begin on Wednesday. The three...
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Women technology leaders to take centre stage at Tech Beach Retreat in Montego Bay
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Women technology leaders to take centre stage at Tech Beach Retreat in Montego Bay
November 25, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Caribbean technology conference Tech Beach Retreat (TBR) has announced an exceptional lineup of female technology leaders who will...
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US to call for Google to sell Chrome browser — report
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US to call for Google to sell Chrome browser — report
November 18, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — The United States (US) will urge a judge to make Google-parent company Alphabet sell its widely used Chrome brows...
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TikTok slashes hundreds of jobs in AI shift
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TikTok slashes hundreds of jobs in AI shift
October 12, 2024
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Social media platform TikTok said it will slash hundreds of jobs, with a significant number of employees in Malaysia ex...
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Meta AI turns pictures into videos with sound
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Meta AI turns pictures into videos with sound
October 4, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Meta on Friday provided a look at a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model it is working on that lets peop...
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