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28 May, 2026
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Something Extra | Thursday
Jamaicans from all walks of life converged at Emancipation Park on Monday for the annual free National Labour Day Praise and Worship concert, which featured stellar performances from gospel artistes…
28 May, 2026
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Baby Ramontay laid to rest as mother demands justice and answers
The tiny casket lowered into the earth last Friday brought an end to weeks of agonising uncertainty for western Jamaica mother Shandale Ballentine, but not the grief that has consumed her since she…
28 May, 2026
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Business leaders endorse Anderson for NaRRA but demand oversight, transparency
Three of the country's largest business groups have endorsed Major (Ret’d) Antony Anderson's appointment to head the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA), the…
28 May, 2026
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Small businesses slow to embrace digital payments amid cost, fraud concerns
Despite evidence that digital payments can drive business growth, only eight per cent of small merchants in Jamaica use point-of-sale (POS) systems, with the country averaging 11 POS terminals per…
28 May, 2026
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J’can medical students in Cuba there by their own volition, says foreign ministry
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Jamaican medical students who continue to study in Cuba do so at their "own volition", even as it continues to monitor the situation in the…
28 May, 2026
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Gov’t pockets 70% of $1 billion allocated to poor under Solidarity Programme
A revelation by Dione Jennings, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, that about 77 per cent, or $$770 million, of the $1 billion set aside for the Government’s Solidarity…
28 May, 2026
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‘Taking us for fools!’
Former Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin has accused the Government of crippling investigations into fatal police shootings by repeatedly delaying the full deployment of body-worn cameras…
28 May, 2026
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Defence presses analyst on fourth person theory after DNA results in Acadia Drive trial
A forensic analyst on Wednesday could not dismiss the possibility that a blood sample from an unidentified male found inside a blue Mitsubishi Outlander linked to the 2013 Acadia Drive police shooting…
28 May, 2026
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PM says some of donated hurricane funds will go to the JDF, ODPEM
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) and the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) are to receive part of the $1.4 billion in hurricane recovery donations to replenish emergency…