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Bryan Smart (3rd right), chief engineer, Robotics Club, Ardenne High School, provides a demonstration of the skills of the robot built by club members during the launch of the UTech Kiwanis STEM Education Project on Monday, March 23 at Ardenne High School.
April 2, 2026

Corporate Hands | UTech, Kiwanis launch STEM Education Project at Ardenne High

Ashley-Rae Barrett, customer service officer at Scotiabank, takes students through the basics of budgeting during the Scotia Foundation’s International Women’s Day Luncheon on March 20.
April 2, 2026

Corporate Hands | Scotiabank empowers young mothers with financial literacy, life skills

First-place winners Amia Thomas, Miaya Stewart and Zhanna Whyte of Immaculate Conception High School share a photo with their teacher, Danielle Francis (left), and Professor Marcia Roye (right), associate dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the Facul
April 2, 2026

Immaculate wins inaugural STEM Role Model competition

Jamaica has produced scientists of global standing, yet their achievements remain little known at home. That gap in awareness inspired the launch of the “FiWi Science Video Competition: Who is your…
Medical assistant at the Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ),  Donna-Marie Dacres, records a patient’s blood pressure results during the St Catherine High School’s health fair held at the institution recently. 
April 2, 2026

Corporate Hands | Heart Foundation of Jamaica provides medical support at St Catherine High School’s health fair

Hugh Grant (left), president & CEO of JPS, and Aundhrae Richardson (right), JPS Foundation officer, pose with representatives of St Hilda’s Diocesan High School, which was named the JPS Foundation Power Up Energy Club of the Year during the JPS Foundatio
April 2, 2026

Corporate Hands | JPS Foundation presents top energy club award to St Hilda’s High School

AP People visit an Apple Store, inside a shopping mall, in Beijing, China, Thursday, April 10, 2025.
April 2, 2026

Apple at 50

A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools’ Day 50 years ago and then — no joke — pulled…
Business
April 2, 2026

BOJ holds policy rate citing uncertainty

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has opted to maintain its benchmark interest rate at 5.50 per cent, underscoring heightened global uncertainty and an increasingly fragile inflation outlook as the dominant…
Business
April 2, 2026

Persons outside labour force surge in Melissa-hit parishes

Some 30,100 fewer persons were employed as of January 2026 compared to the year before, and Jamaica’s labour force also fell by 33,000 during the same period, according to key indicators from the…
Letters
April 2, 2026

Letter of the Day | Justice as the engine of prosperity

THE EDITOR, Madam: