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08 May, 2026
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OUR cops OCCUR Regulator of the Year award
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has hailed winning the coveted OCCUR’s Regulator of the Year Award for 2025 and the Winston Hay Award for Most Outstanding Consumer Protection Initiative as a…
08 May, 2026
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Plans to repeal and replace the Tourism Act
Jamaica’s tourism sector could soon undergo its biggest legislative overhaul in decades, with Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett announcing plans to repeal and replace the Tourism Act as part of a…
08 May, 2026
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VIRAL CRIME - Conservationists call for crackdown on TikTok’s illegal trade in endangered species
Concerns are growing over the use of social media platform TikTok as a marketplace for the sale of endangered Jamaican species, with conservation biologist Damion Whyte urging the authorities to make…
08 May, 2026
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Protecting a free press is essential to Caribbean democracy
The Gleaner’s editorial on democracy and a free press raises an issue that deserves urgent attention. The decline of traditional media in the region is a democratic crisis unfolding quietly in front…
08 May, 2026
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Letter of the Day | Rise of ‘instant’ prophets and academic claims is concerning
I am writing to express profound apprehension regarding the rapid proliferation of self-proclaimed prophets and prophetesses across Jamaica, a phenomenon accelerated by the unchecked nature of social…
08 May, 2026
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A local final appellate court?
The recent public lament of the chief justice and the president of the Court of Appeal concerning the woeful state of Jamaica's courthouses ought not simply to be ignored by the government.
08 May, 2026
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Kristen Gyles | Deepfakes can’t be left unregulated
The explosion in the creation of deepfakes has left us in the middle of an information war. No longer can we safely consume audiovisual content without questioning whether we are watching something…
08 May, 2026
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Peter Espeut | Lip service to sustainable development
For the last 40 years or so, every political party in Jamaica includes “environmental sustainability” or “sustainable development” in its public pre-election propaganda. The manifesto of the Jamaica…
08 May, 2026
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Editorial | Choosing the football coach
As was widely anticipated, Rudolph Speid has been named to continue as Jamaica’s interim national football coach for the four-team, Unity Cup, to be held in England this month.