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20 Sep, 2025
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Defence attorney wants urgent review of penalties under firearms law
Concerned about the harsh penalties faced by individuals, including children, for possessing imitation firearms, a defence lawyer is calling for an urgent review of Jamaica’s firearm legislation.…
20 Sep, 2025
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Health ministry to open cognitive clinics for dementia screening
The Ministry of Health and Wellness is set to open cognitive clinics to screen individuals displaying symptoms of dementia – a degenerative disease that impairs daily functioning, including memory…
20 Sep, 2025
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Ode to Portia
Pamela Redwood has worked closely with Portia for more than 30 years. Following the disclosure by Simpson Miller’s husband that his wife is suffering from dementia, Redwood paid the following tribute…
19 Sep, 2025
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China-trained doctors in limbo
WESTERN BUREAU: Several Jamaican doctors, who got their training in China, are alleging that they cannot secure placements here in Jamaica for their internships despite making multiple applications.…
19 Sep, 2025
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‘Nothing to be ashamed of’
JAMAICA PICKED up a pair of bronze medals at the end of day eight at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships, with Bryan Levell and Shericka Jackson finishing third in the men’s and women’s 200…
19 Sep, 2025
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Cameron alleges political victimisation; Chang denies claims
Senior Superintendent of Police Wayne Cameron has accused National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang and Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake of harassment and political victimisation, according to an…
19 Sep, 2025
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St Catherine community shaken after 5 shot in deadly attack
The Jamaica Constabulary Force yesterday indicated that it was following significant leads into Thursday night’s drive-by shooting in Portsmouth, St Catherine, which left one man dead and four others…
19 Sep, 2025
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Where’s my daughter?
It has been more than six months since Dr Samar Rodriguez, a London-based academic, last saw her five-year-old daughter, Tau Kleio Rodriguez-Fairplay. Tau was abducted in February from her home in the…
19 Sep, 2025
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Dementia and a family’s unhealed wound
WESTERN BUREAU: On the morning of November 5, 2005, Janice’s mother, diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s, walked away from home and disappeared, much to the distress of the six surviving of her…