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26 Sep, 2025
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UN blacklists another 68 companies over Israeli settlements
The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of firms from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli…
26 Sep, 2025
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Rabbi Yaakov Raskin | I believe in G-d—or do I trust Him?
On all American coins and paper currency, the country’s national motto of “In G-d We Trust” is famously written. As we approach Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, taking place Sept 22-24, I want to…
26 Sep, 2025
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Fisherman drowns in Treasure Beach
The Pedro Plains police in St Elizabeth have launched an investigation into the death of a fisherman who drowned in the parish on Thursday. He has been identified as 29-year-old Damian Davis of…
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26 Sep, 2025
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Gordon Robinson | Change is in the air
At 20 Belmont Road and a stone’s throw (well, maybe two throws) away, at 89 Old Hope Road, winds of change are blowing. JLP’s focus on change was signalled by dissolution of an ill-advised Legal and…
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26 Sep, 2025
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Garth Minott | A budget is a moral document
Budgets are moral documents. This is the title of an article by Catholic priest Fr. Travis Russell. A criminal justice policy advisor for the Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology in the…
26 Sep, 2025
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FIFA sanctions Malaysia for fielding foreign-born players with fake documents
ZURICH (AP) — FIFA has sanctioned the Football Association of Malaysia after finding documents submitted to naturalise seven foreign-born players were doctored. The players — Gabriel Felipe Arrocha,…
26 Sep, 2025
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Dennis Minott | Harmful buffoonery
Behind the neat rows of school timetables lies harmful buffoonery, where pools-timetabling locks children’s dreams into cages and wastes national talent.
26 Sep, 2025
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Mark Wignall | When democracy slips away
The present White House led by Donald Trump is devouring democracy and doing it with glee and much haste. Here in Jamaica we gave it our special birth, our special nurturing and when it veered off…
26 Sep, 2025
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Imani Tafari-Ama | Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
Multiple thoughts must have swirled around in Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness‘ mind as he took the oath of office for the fourth time in his elongated political career. Did it occur to him in those…