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10 Dec, 2025
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Letter of the Day | Why Buchanan’s case failed before it began
THE EDITOR, Madam: The recent ruling of the Supreme Court in the matter involving Mr Paul Buchanan offers an important and sobering lesson for all Jamaicans who turn to the courts for electoral…
10 Dec, 2025
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Scholarship announced in memory of Roach-Wilson
A scholarship fund honouring the legacy, education and love of Jamaica is to be established in the name of the late Consul General in New York, Roach-Wilson. Details of the fund have not yet been…
10 Dec, 2025
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MoBay air travel traffic plummets by three-quarters in November
Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay recorded its steepest traffic decline since the onset of the pandemic, with total passengers plunging 73.4 per cent in November, compared with the same…
10 Dec, 2025
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CTO hosts fundraiser to aid Jamaican tourism workers
The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) has set a target of US$100,000 to assist Jamaican tourism workers affected by Hurricane Melissa, with half of the funds also earmarked for Haiti. A fundraising…
10 Dec, 2025
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Hausmann and Gabay | Deeper into the public procurement goldmine
Governments have long recognised that innovation drives economic growth. To nurture it, they have created ministries, agencies, and incubators, offering grants, subsidies, and prizes to innovators…
10 Dec, 2025
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Church’s Chicken to establish 10 restaurants, first now open
Quick-service restaurant chain Church’s Texas Chicken opened its first store on its return to Jamaica on Monday at the Mall Plaza in Kingston, with the operators stating that it will be the first of…
10 Dec, 2025
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AI agents to enter Mastercard’s Caribbean payments space
Mastercard has announced that its agentic payments programme, designed to allow authorised artificial-intelligence (AI) agents to conduct transactions securely, will reach Latin America and the…
10 Dec, 2025
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Comprehensive housing solutions needed
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing with reference to the article by Christopher Burgess, ‘Rebuilding housing in western Jamaica’. It reminded us that resilient solutions must, not only be appropriate…
10 Dec, 2025
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Norris R. McDonald | Trump, Hegseth, and US hegemony: Blood in our waters
ON DECEMBER 4, the US Senate and Congress launched investigations into a horrific incident where unarmed fishermen, survivors of an American airstrike, were later deliberately targeted and killed…