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20 Feb, 2026
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Jamaican models shine at NYFW
New York Fashion Week’s (NYFW) Day 3, 4 and 5 saw a bountiful showcase of Jamaican models across The Big Apple for designers’ fall 2026 ready-to-wear runway collections. The quartet of SAINT…
20 Feb, 2026
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Stanley Motta faces vacant floors but profit triples on property gains
Stanley Motta Limited, the Kingston-based commercial landlord, said a prospective tenant that had signed a letter of intent declined to proceed, leaving three floors in its recently completed…
20 Feb, 2026
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Man from the future fights AI apocalypse in ‘Good Luck’
In Gore Verbinski’s absurdist AI sci-fi satire Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, a strange unnamed man (Sam Rockwell) steps into a Los Angeles diner and declares that he’s from the future. “All of this…
20 Feb, 2026
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Peter Espeut | From holy days to holidays
Wednesday, February 18 – Ash Wednesday – was a public holiday in Protestant Jamaica, but not in Catholic Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). Ash Wednesday is the opening act in the penitential season of…
20 Feb, 2026
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Marlin Way killing opens up mental health debate
THE EDITOR, Madam: As I read the story of the killing of a woman by her son and the wounding of his sister, I recalled my own brother’s ordeal, who suffered from mental illness. It brings back to…
20 Feb, 2026
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We need to do better with civic sense
THE EDITOR, Madam: The 2026 staging of the Sagicor Sigma Run was my first time attending the event. I went expecting to feel inspired, instead I am still very appalled by the amount of littering I…
20 Feb, 2026
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Letter of the Day | Did Michael Manley get it right?
THE EDITOR, Madam: There is a reflective question that arises, particularly in this Black History Month. Did former prime minister, Michael Manley, get it right in affirming that: “The enslavement of…
20 Feb, 2026
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Hurricane Melissa costs Liberty Latin America US$76 million in Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica in late October 2025, flattening homes and severing telephone lines. For Liberty Latin America, the Category 5 storm left a combined cost of US$76 million —…
20 Feb, 2026
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JMMB Group quarterly profit slips, nine-month earnings surge
JMMB Group Limited posted net profit of $985.5 million for its third quarter ended December 2025, down from $1.14 billion a year earlier due to impairments and Hurricane Melissa disruptions. Group CEO…