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05 Oct, 2026
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Damion Crawford | Standing with our teachers while standing together for our children
Today, as we celebrate World Teachers’ Day under the theme, ‘Standing with teachers: 60 years of protecting the profession, advancing its status and shaping our futures’, I want us to focus on one…
05 Oct, 2026
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Wayne Campbell | Standing with teachers
Around the world, teachers continue to face excessive workloads, insufficient salaries, growing administrative burdens, a growing culture of disrespect, poor working conditions, attacks on academic…
05 Oct, 2026
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Motorcyclist killed, pillion injured in fiery Bog Walk Gorge crash
A motorcyclist was killed and a pillion injured in a fiery crash along the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as 35-year-old Jason Johnson of Portmore Villa in…
05 Oct, 2026
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Janiel McEwan | The salary is not the whole problem: Jamaica’s cost-of-living crisis runs much deeper
A worker gets paid on a Friday afternoon. The number on the pay slip has not changed since last year. The grocery bill has. The rent has. The taxi fare from Half-Way Tree to Papine has. The JPS bill…
05 Oct, 2026
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Community activist calls for tourism development instead of relocation for Coopers Pen residents
Community activist O Dave Allen says displaced residents of Coopers Pen, Trelawny should be allowed to remain and that efforts are made by the Government to develop the area, with a goal of…
05 Oct, 2026
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Mother and son from Bermuda named as passengers on missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston
The two people aboard an air ambulance that crashed in the waters off Massachusetts over the weekend while flying from Bermuda to Boston were identified Monday as a mother from Bermuda and her son. …
05 Oct, 2026
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Privacy concerns put smart glasses under scrutiny as Norway seeks temporary ban
A trip to the park. A day at the beach. A workout session at the gym. All in public spaces where smart glasses can snap photos, record conversations or stream video online — without people in the line…
05 Oct, 2026
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Vernon: Affordable housing must be close to jobs, essential services
Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon says Jamaica’s affordable housing programme must ensure that people are not only provided with homes, but are able to live within reasonable reach of employment and…
05 Oct, 2026
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Leroy Fearon | Born to teach: When a birthday meets a calling
There are birthdays we celebrate with cake, candles and photographs. Then there are birthdays that invite us to pause and ask a deeper question: What have I done with the life I have been given? For…