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21 Sep, 2026
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Eighteen Jamaican students return from Russia with engineering degrees
Eighteen Jamaican students are now back in Jamaica after completing engineering degrees at the Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The students were awarded fully funded scholarships…
21 Sep, 2026
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JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation awards $17.5 million in scholarships and bursaries
The JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation presented scholarships and bursaries at the foundation’s annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony, held recently at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel. This year’s scholarship…
21 Sep, 2026
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Trump says his planned arch would become a ‘military complex’
WASHINGTON, DC (AP): United States President Donald Trump said Sunday that the massive arch he wants to build between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery would become a “top grade…
21 Sep, 2026
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Even beloved hot dogs feel economic squeeze
SANTIAGO ( AP): It is lunchtime in downtown Santiago, and dozens of businesses around the Plaza de Armas are serving up one of Chile’s most democratic specialties: the “completo”. For decades, the…
21 Sep, 2026
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Haleigh Marshall | Literacy deserves a rights-based focus
Growing up, one of the common adages we were told in school was that “reading makes a full man”, or a full woman in my case. As I got older, I began to understand that concept in a more fulsome way.
21 Sep, 2026
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Letter of the Day | Who is responsible for deteriorating towns?
THE EDITOR, Madam: Whenever my family and I travel across Jamaica, we are always impressed by the beauty of our countryside, including the beaches, greenery, natural landscape, beautiful homes and…
21 Sep, 2026
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The gap between promise and practice on child rights
THE EDITOR, Madam: The obligations owed to children do not end with the passage of legislation. As Jamaica prepares for international scrutiny of its human rights record, an important question…
21 Sep, 2026
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Readers' reactions
$100K mobile phones but no textbooks Imagine! Focusing on nonsense. In my time, my father’s first request after school opens — Bring me the book list. Got every book, whatever needed for class. Now…
21 Sep, 2026
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Ronald Thwaites | Diminishing justice
Last week, the minister of justice and the chief justice variously acknowledged that the Jamaican court system, particularly the Supreme Court, cannot dispose of all the cases before it within any…