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14 Oct, 2025
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Corporate Hands | AmCham, Baptist Health strengthen US-Jamaica links
Recognised among the leading healthcare systems in the United States, Baptist Health South Florida, through Baptist Health International, joined forces with the American Chamber of Commerce of Jamaica…
14 Oct, 2025
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Gabriel Agbo | No cross, no crown
“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, in as much as you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings;…
14 Oct, 2025
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Matchmaking and marriage services: Do Indians in the diaspora need them?
ACCORDING TO Rao Prakasa (1982), the traditional arranged Indian marriage matchmaker is called anag-waa, or nayan. The matchmaker is normally a family friend or distant relative, or maulvi, imam or…
14 Oct, 2025
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Dwight Fletcher | Why should I care that Jesus is alive?
LAST WEEK, we kicked off a new series on knowing the truth about Jesus. We live in a world that constantly tries to convince us that faith is for the non-thinkers who just want something to believe…
13 Oct, 2025
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Trauma overload
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Delroy Fray, the clinical coordinator at the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), is raising concern about the alarming number of victims of motor vehicle accidents who were…
13 Oct, 2025
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Fake jobs, bogus invoices
A domestic helper unknowingly employed by the Ministry of Education is among the key allegations in the $25-million fraud case involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid and former Caribbean…
13 Oct, 2025
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No meeting of minds on committees stalemate
Karl Samuda, who was the leader of government business when then PM Bruce Golding handed the chairmanship of parliamentary oversight committees to the Opposition, has suggested that the experiment did…
13 Oct, 2025
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Elderly farmer pleads for help to rebuild home destroyed by heavy rains
Rudy Campbell, from Castleton, St Mary, is living in a precarious condition. Just over a week ago, heavy rains and winds from a freak storm uprooted a guinep tree that landed on his four-bedroom…
13 Oct, 2025
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Westmoreland Fire Brigade reports surge in emergency calls amid ambulance challenges
WESTERN BUREAU: While fire calls were down by 14 per cent nationally in 2023-2024, the situation was far different in Westmoreland, which registered a staggering 35 per cent increase that was further…