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16 Oct, 2025
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Land acquisition challenges being overcome as Long Hill Bypass takes shape
WESTERN BUREAU: Robert Morgan, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Infrastructure Development, says the longstanding land acquisition challenges that once impeded…
16 Oct, 2025
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Beryllium probing robbery of one of its trucks
Security company Beryllium Limited says it has launched a comprehensive internal investigation into theft of "assets" from one of its trucks on Saturday. The company did not state the…
16 Oct, 2025
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Police probing suspected suicide of UWI student
The body of a female student of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, was reportedly discovered on the George Alleyne Hall at the campus on Thursday morning. It’s understood that suicide…
16 Oct, 2025
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Sam Sharpe did not start the fire, but …
FROM 1823 rumours were going around that the king of England had granted the enslaved their freedom. The rumours were rife in late 1831, especially since Reverend Thomas Burchell was off the island.…
16 Oct, 2025
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Angel Reese makes Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show history
Angel Reese took her game from the court to the catwalk and made history along the way. The Chicago Sky forward became the first professional athlete to walk in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on…
16 Oct, 2025
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Rights group warns Jamaica at ‘critical juncture’ in mental health response
Rights group Stand Up for Jamaica says the country is now at a critical juncture in its response to mental illness as, despite years of advocacy, thousands of Jamaicans -including children, the…
16 Oct, 2025
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Sean Major-Campbell | Healing in the balmyard
MY RECENT obeah piece certainly triggered many comments, questions, and some condemnation both for obeah and for me. I decided to ask AI Overview about obeah!
16 Oct, 2025
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Nadine Blair ‘surprised’ by honour from City of Tamarac in Florida
If ever there was a poster child for ‘gospel royalty’, then radio personality, singer, worship leader, actress, author, poet, emcee, speaker and “lover of Christ Jesus” Nadine Blair would be it. The…
16 Oct, 2025
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Peter Espeut | Old ways die hard
“Slavery is indeed scotched in our colonies, but it is not killed; its name is changed: its character remains to be changed hereafter”. [Special Magistrate Richard Robert…