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25 Sep, 2026
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Jamaica holds US$45m owed to Venezuela in frozen account
Jamaica has built up US$45 million (J$7.2b) in PetroCaribe payments owed to Venezuela, an amount that’s grown more than 16-fold over two years. The money sits in a segregated account at the Bank of…
25 Sep, 2026
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Spring Mount access crisis hurts John’s Hall Primary
WESTERN BUREAU: The John’s Hall Primary School is losing students as the collapse of the Spring Mount road in St James disrupts access to the school, with enrolment falling by 84 children as families…
25 Sep, 2026
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Cedric E. Stephens | Hurricane Melissa and the ‘endurance economy’ – The recovery we are enduring
In a recent series of articles, Professor C. Justin Robinson, pro-vice-chancellor and principal of The University of the West Indies Five Islands Campus, introduced the concept of the ‘endurance…
25 Sep, 2026
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Rusal seeks buyers for Windalco as it pulls back from the Caribbean
Russia’s largest aluminium producer, UC Rusal, has started looking for buyers for its Windalco alumina complex in Jamaica and its bauxite operations in Guyana, US-based Bloomberg News reported, citing…
25 Sep, 2026
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Peter Espeut | Down by the riverside
On Monday, September 21, on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly, US Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent, Vermont) delivered a major foreign policy address at the historic Riverside Church…
25 Sep, 2026
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5 Questions with Basillia Barnaby-Cuff
Content creator, broadcaster, event emcee, author, and founder and director of the Sterling Gospel Music Awards are just some of the hats that Basillia Barnaby-Cuff wears. Barnaby-Cuff, a wife and…
25 Sep, 2026
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Make stance clear on Palestine
THE EDITOR, Madam: This is an open letter to the Prime Minister. Dear Prime Minister: As Minister Johnson Smith prepares to represent Jamaica at the UNGA, I hope both you and the minister…
25 Sep, 2026
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Readers’ reactions
Lawyers stage silent protest over mandatory gun sentences Not a lawyer but can’t they put together a case and sue in an effort to change the law? Do mandatory minimums violate the Constitution? -…
25 Sep, 2026
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Kristen Gyles | Chasing squatters
In a country with an abundance of Crown land, dispossessing a private landowner of the land they purchased to give it to someone else,in the name of “equity” is itself inequitable. A person who…