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20 Aug, 2026 0

Police hunt man after brother fatally stabbed in Portmore

The police are searching for a man who allegedly fatally stabbed his brother following an argument in their community of Beverly Flats in Newlands, Portmore, St Catherine, on Tuesday. Dead is…
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Earth Today | Report spotlights mental health cost of climate change

THE NEED to elevate mental health-related loss and damage from climate change as a key consideration for policymakers is among a set of recommendations from a recent global stocktake of national…
Resident volunteers in Parottee, St Elizabeth do their part to clean up a degraded mangrove forest in the community during a Bulky Waste Cleanup, in celebration of World Wetlands Day in February. The clean-up was part of the RE-LEAF initiative.
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Earth Today | Urban Forest Run to help restore tree cover in western Jamaica

JAMAICANS ARE encouraged to don their running shoes this weekend, in support of restoring the tree cover lost in western Jamaica with the passage of the devastating Hurricane Melissa last October. The…
Plastic in a waterway in Trinidad & Tobago.
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Earth Today | Trash doesn’t stop at the shoreline

PICTURE A fisherman returning to shore somewhere in the Caribbean. Alongside his catch, tangled in his net, are plastic bottles, food wrappers, and a lone flip-flop that clearly didn’t come from…