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19 Sep, 2025
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Where’s my daughter?
It has been more than six months since Dr Samar Rodriguez, a London-based academic, last saw her five-year-old daughter, Tau Kleio Rodriguez-Fairplay. Tau was abducted in February from her home in the…
19 Sep, 2025
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Dementia and a family’s unhealed wound
WESTERN BUREAU: On the morning of November 5, 2005, Janice’s mother, diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s, walked away from home and disappeared, much to the distress of the six surviving of her…
19 Sep, 2025
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Rhoda Moy Crawford and Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert and Abka Fitz-Henley among new state ministers
Member of Parliament for Manchester Central Rhoda Moy Crawford, former House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert and Senator Abka Fitz-Henley are among the new state ministers named by Prime Minister…
19 Sep, 2025
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Deportee arrested on arrival in Jamaica
A man who fled Jamaica while on bail for murder was arrested at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Thursday after being deported from the United States of America. He is 24-…
19 Sep, 2025
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Diaspora group awards $107,000 in scholarships
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Twenty-six students of Jamaican heritage attending Howard University were awarded scholarships totalling US$107,000 at the Jamaica Howard University Affinity Network’s (JHUAN)…
19 Sep, 2025
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Mandatory prostate cancer screening unlikely, says medical officer
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Romario Hart, the medical officer of health at the St Catherine Health Department, says that while men should be proactive in getting regular prostate cancer screenings, he does not…
19 Sep, 2025
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Five shot in Portsmouth, one fatally
Police in the St Catherine South division are searching for hoodlums who fatally shot one man and wounded four others in the Portsmouth community in Portmore on Thursday night. Dead is 19-year-old …
19 Sep, 2025
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Gov’t launches first-ever Agriculture Deal Book to attract investors
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s agriculture sector now has its first structure investment guide following Friday’s launch of the Agriculture Deal Book, which was unveiled at the inaugural Jamaica…
19 Sep, 2025
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Transport Authority remembers Forrester for public transportation advocacy
The board, management and staff of the Transport Authority are expressing regret at the tragic death of councillor for the Petersfield Division in Westmoreland, Patrick Forrester, who was also the…