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06 Nov, 2025
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90,000 families in Western Jamaica impacted by Hurricane Melissa
Approximately 90,000 families in western Jamaica were directly affected by the passage of Hurricane Melissa on October 28. This is according to the initial damage assessment by Office of Disaster…
06 Nov, 2025
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Gov’t to help small community shops to reopen, including loaning them generators
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says the Government is working on a plan to get the local economy in hurricane-affected areas back up and running, arguing that having community shops operational is…
06 Nov, 2025
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Neil Richards | Consequences of building on very dangerous sites
There is a fatal attraction to the practice of building on dangerous sites that seem to be ‘easy pickings’ for unauthorised occupation. Persons who squat on public or private land, seem to be embolden…
06 Nov, 2025
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Patrick Robinson | Track and field athletics is number one
Jamaica has been placed in what is, perhaps, the weakest qualification group – Jamaica, Bermuda, Curaçao and Trinidad and Tobago – ever created in the history of the World Cup. If the Reggae Boyz do…
06 Nov, 2025
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Tony Deyal | Hurricane Melissa: Help for all
The first time I met Jamaicans at Canada Hall of The University of the West Indies (UWI) in Trinidad, initially, it was scary. I had just become the hall chairman when a huge Jamaican youth was…
06 Nov, 2025
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Ronald Sanders | ‘Sovereignty’ – A plaything of the powerful?
For the powerful, sovereignty is a sword; for the small, it must remain a shield Sovereignty is supposedly the cornerstone of international order: the formal declaration that every state has the…
06 Nov, 2025
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New York, Los Angeles and Chicago among 40 major US airports targeted for flight cuts due to gov’t shutdown
America’s busiest airports, including those in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago, were set to face hundreds of flight cuts starting Friday due to the government shutdown, according to a list…
06 Nov, 2025
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Clarendon woman desperate to find family in hurricane-ravaged St Elizabeth
A Clarendon woman is making a desperate plea for help in re-establishing contact with her daughter-in-law and one-year-old grandson of Mocho, St Elizabeth, who she has been unable to reach since…
06 Nov, 2025
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Yaneek Page | Reinventing your business model for climate survival
The Atlantic hurricane season officially ends on November 30. That gives us just under 200 days before the next one begins. The countdown has already started, not just on calendar, but on the clock…