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February 1, 2026 by Raymond Graham

Controversy, drama highlight road to final

Jamaica College bounced back in fine style to defeat St George’s College on the road in their second ISSA Urban Under-19 schoolboy basketball semi-final game on Friday, evening the series at 1-1 and…
Dr Kanchana Coore
February 1, 2026 by Erica Virtue

DEATHBED CONFIDANTE

By the time patients reach the final stretch of their lives, the questions they bring to Dr Kanchana Bandara Coore are rarely medical alone. They are about children who will be left behind, marriages…
Nicholas Neufville
February 1, 2026

Calabar old boy establishes fund in honour of slain coach

Calabar High School’s proud tradition of excellence in track and field is set to receive a significant and sustained boost with the launch of the Nicholas Neufville Fund, an initiative spearheaded by…
A person holds a sign, during an anti-ICE demonstration, ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, yesterday.
February 1, 2026

Demonstrators in Milan protest ICE unit at Winter Olympics

MILAN (AP): Hundreds of demonstrators gathered yesterday in Milan to protest the deployment of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during the upcoming Winter Olympics, unbothered by…
Sixty-eight-year-old Willie Rowe points to a section of land that he bought from the National Housing Trust and is now fenced off by another state entity.
February 1, 2026 by Sashana Small

‘I can’t even walk on my own land’

A 68-year-old man’s lifelong dream of owning a home is in jeopardy amid claims that the Ministry of Housing has encroached on his property in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Fighting back tears, Willie…
Two young children carefully cross downed cable wires on their way home from school in Rose Hall, St James, last Friday.
February 1, 2026 by Janet Silvera

Billion-Dollar Collapse

WESTERN BUREAU: Three months after Hurricane Melissa struck western Jamaica, large sections of the community cable network remain dark, leaving operators to confront an estimated $1.4 billion in…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness.
February 1, 2026 by Livern Barrett

Holness seeks update on FID probe

Lawmakers should consider amending the laws governing public bodies with investigative powers by including provisions to protect citizens from reputational damage, legal experts have suggested. The…
Delroy Chuck, minister of justice and constitutional affairs, notes that in the event of the death of the witnesses to a will – or if they can no longer be located – a will should be rewritten.
February 1, 2026 by Erica Virtue

Where there’s no will ...

At 83, Albertha H. is clear about one thing: she will not be tempting fate by making a will. “You a invite dead?” she fires back, half-laughing, half-challenging, when asked if she worries about dying…
This file photo shows bulk loader vessel, Cetus Star, docked at JAMALCO’s Rocky Point Pier in Clarendon.
February 1, 2026

Editorial | Grasp alumina possibilities

As was announced last week, for the first time in nearly half a century, a new primary aluminium smelter is being built in the United States. This is not just an American industrial story. It carries…