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20 Sep, 2026
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Jehovah’s Witnesses allow blood-derived products
The Jehovah’s Witnesses have partly eased their longstanding prohibition on the medical use of donated blood, allowing members to receive products derived from blood but maintaining a ban on…
20 Sep, 2026
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Patra is back
The world now knows her as the ‘Queen of the Pack’, but before she became the first woman to have her album reach No. 1 on the Billboard Reggae Chart, Patra was just ‘Mummy’ from Whithorn,…
20 Sep, 2026
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$10m handed out to keep Jamaica's Promise to 25 students
Twenty-five Jamaica Independence scholarships, together valued in excess of J$10 million, have been awarded to final-year tertiary students by Jamaica's Promise, a United States (US) non-profit…
20 Sep, 2026
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Solar firm IEG mulls property development to unlock legacy losses
Innovative Energy Group (IEG) wants to enter property development to augment its solar-installation business, and would seek approval to use legacy tax losses from the Ciboney Group, a listed entity…
20 Sep, 2026
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Harvest heartbreak
For Angella Jones, the hardest part of farming is not the work. It is putting everything she has into the ground, watching crops fail repeatedly, and then having to find the money to start all over…
20 Sep, 2026
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‘We are not struggling’ - Schools see strategic success as they hold out against drought
The once-lush green lawn at the front of Spring Garden Primary and Infant School in St Thomas is now a deep brown. At neighbouring White Hall Primary School, vegetation on the school grounds has dried…
20 Sep, 2026
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Yaneek Page | Ja’s crime rate nears Costa Rica’s, but growth promise unfulfilled
There are few instances in economic life when the business community can expect a tangible return on an external shift without cutting another cheque, and the dramatic fall in Jamaica’s murder rate…
20 Sep, 2026
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A truck driver built a model of NYC with over 800,000 structures for fun. Now it’s a museum exhibit
NEW YORK (AP) For more than two decades, truck driver Joe Macken spent his free time building a massive scale model of his native New York City out of balsa wood and foam board. When he finished, his…
20 Sep, 2026
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Grange backs reparations call at London church service
On Sunday, September 6, New Park Road Baptist Church in London hosted a service titled ‘Carry Wi Story Lest We Forget’, a service of remembrance, justice and repair. This report is based on a viewing…