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Police in Dominican Republic arrest members of network that trafficked undocumented Haitians

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, CMC –  The Army of the Dominican Republic (ERD) has dismantled an alleged network dedicated to the trafficking of undocumented Haitians in the southern region after arresting the suspected ringleader...
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Pleading for PATH

Paula Graham, who has been trying since the COVID-19 pandemic to get her two sons registered on the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), says she has now given up even though she is not working and is struggling to send one...
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Vybz Kartel concert packs Kingston hotels Premium

WESTERN BUREAU: Long before ticket sales opened for the Vybz Kartel’s Freedom Street concert scheduled for New Year’s Eve, Kingston hotels were seeing strong forward bookings for December 31. Once the concert was announced, Kingston hoteliers told...
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From left: Businessman Winston Dear; Cornell Howell Huie, administrator of the Mustard Seed Children’s Home in Montego Bay, St James; Janet Richards, of the Janet Richards Foundation; Denise Dear, the wife of Winston Dear; and Sharon Cowan, director of J

Mustard Seed’s children in MoBay get Christmas treat to remember

WESTERN BUREAU: The children living with disabilities at the Mustard Seed Children’s Home in Montego Bay, St James, got a treat to remember on Christmas Day when they were feted by philanthropist Winston Dear, the Usain Bolt Foundation, and the...
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Private Robert Theophilus Downer – War hero rescued after 107 years

How do you honour the sacrifice of a great grandfather you never knew existed, never realised that he gave his life for you and others to be free? You speak his name! You heal from a wound so deep that you were unaware of its existence. You seek...
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NJ securing the future of Sunshine Girls

With the Sunshine Girls being the highest-ranked Jamaican national team, Netball Jamaica (NJ) President Tricia Robinson said the association is committed to ensuring that the team remains a global powerhouse for the years to come. The Girls are...
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KSAFA boss says gov’t grant for football development insufficient

President of the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Mark Bennett said the $500,000 grant recently allocated to parish associations by the Government is well received but is still insufficient. At the launch of the Argentine-...
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Sorrel price spike

The supply of sorrel, a favourite Christmas drink in Jamaica, has declined this season with at least one supplier paying up to 60 per cent more to source the crop. The market blames the reduction on the impact of Hurricane Beryl and the subsequent...
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JSE head remains until successor chosen

Dr Marlene Street Forrest, managing director of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), will remain at the helm of the organisation until the board appoints a successor, the JSE announced on Friday evening. “The JSE announces that the managing director...
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Duane Stephenson performing at JaRIA Reggae Wednesdays Jamz held on December 12,  at the Kingston Craft Market.

Duane Stephenson recalls Kartel/Mavado clash and the Sting that didn’t happen

Reggae artiste, Duane Stephenson, was booked to perform twice on ‘the greatest one-night dancehall show on Earth’, Sting, and he said that both times were history-making events. The singer made his Sting début in 2008, the year of the highly...
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‘A different Joy in the Bass this year’

The eighth staging of the annual Christmas Joy in the Bass event at the Ambassador Theatre in Trench Town was a night of music, food and the Word, courtesy of the Joy Town Community Development Foundation. Performing on stage for the duration of...
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An aerial view of Emancipation Park and New Kingston.

Editorial | PIOJ’s green Kingston

Monique Lewis’ call for the greening of Jamaica’s urban infrastructure is not entirely new. But given her job, she adds an important voice to the public advocacy for new approaches for dealing with the island’s growing urbanisation in the...
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Ronald Thwaites | Valuing our lives

The wise elder of Jamaican statecraft, Hon. P. J. Patterson last week pleaded with us to come together to refine the value and meaning of our Jamaican life. What could be more fundamental? Yet, what could be so often unexamined and therefore less-...
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Letter of the Day | Jamaica standing at crossroads

THE EDITOR, Madam: Jamaica stands at a crossroads, reminiscent of the profound opening line from Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. The island is culturally vibrant and socio-economically troubled, exhibiting the best macroeconomic...
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What about family time outside of Christmas?

THE EDITOR, Madam: This is the season where we eat oxtail, baked chicken, ham, and mutton. It is the season in which we go to Grand Market on Christmas Eve. It is the season where we go to church to celebrate the birth of Christ Jesus. It is the...
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People mourn at the grave of flight attendant Hokume Aliyeva during a funeral of the crew members of the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 killed in a deadly plane crash in Kazakhstan at the II Alley of Honor in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Crashed jetliner was shot down by Russia unintentionally: President Aliyev

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally, and criticised Moscow for trying to “hush up” the issue for days. “We can say with complete...
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Boxing Day tsunami

On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably the deadliest tsunami in human history. As coastal...
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 The Riu Resorts Jamaica team (from left) Sandra Nesbeth, Niurka Garcia-Linton and Tina Dunbar show off the versatility of a black dress.

Something Extra | Monday

The Jamaica Tourist Board celebrated its top-producing travel specialists during the 10th annual One Love Affair, a three-day recognition event held recently at the new Princess Grand Jamaica and Princess Senses The Mangrove in Green Island,...

Zsuzsanna Berencsi journeys across 196 countries

WESTERN BUREAU: In a world where wanderlust knows no bounds, Zsuzsanna Berencsi, a Hungarian-born adventurer, is a testament to the allure of exploration. With 196 countries under her belt, she completed her most extraordinary journey on Monday....
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