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04 Oct, 2026
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Royal Jamaica Yacht Club, Mayberry set ambitious course
The Royal Jamaica Yacht Club (RJYC) is set to make waves in the sport-fishing community with the launch of the Mayberry/RJYC Marlin Tournament 2026. Tournament organiser Brandon Samms has outlined an…
04 Oct, 2026
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Consulate expands support for nationals in US
NEW YORK (CMC): St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Consul General to the United States Roland ‘Patel’ Matthews says the New York-based Consulate General is broadening its role beyond providing routine…
04 Oct, 2026
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Home Affairs Minister to meet top cop over SOCU head rape allegations
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Home Affairs Minister Oneidge Walrond says she will meet with Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken to determine how to address allegations of rape and threatening behaviour against…
04 Oct, 2026
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Mickel Jackson | Let’s strike the balance on the Firearms Act
In 2022, Jamaicans for Justice submitted its proposals to the members of the Firearms Joint Select Committee. We raised concerns then, and again before the wider Parliament once the bill left the…
04 Oct, 2026
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Deported and defamed - Jamaican rejects US immigration authorities’ characterisation of ‘criminal history’, says charges were dismissed
A Jamaican man deported after 12 years in the United States is rejecting allegations by immigration authorities there that he is a violent criminal, insisting that serious criminal charges brought…
04 Oct, 2026
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Editorial | Farewell, Ian McDonald!
It has been a season of death for towering West Indian figures. In July, Garfield Sobers, the greatest cricketer who ever lived, whether, as the calypsonian Mighty Sparrow declared in song, Sir…
04 Oct, 2026
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Orville Taylor | Doctoring the IDT
‘Patients’ and ‘patience’ are homophones, and we would be unreasonable to deny that the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA) has lots of both. With a doctor-patient ratio of 0.5 to 1,000,…
04 Oct, 2026
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Garth Rattray | Is it aptitude, attitude, or both?
The school term is in full swing once again and, although a child’s performance in school depends on a wide variety of external influences, I can’t help thinking that more children could do better if…
04 Oct, 2026
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Rattan Lal | The FAO faces a new agricultural revolution
Humanity faces a paradox. We have never had so much scientific and technological knowledge to produce food, yet the need to transform the way we produce it has never been more evident. The Green…