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22 Oct, 2026
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Earth Today | EFJ eyes proven regional strategies to tackle environmental challenges
JAMAICA MAY not have to look very far for solutions to some of its biggest environmental challenges. Across Latin America and the Caribbean, countries are already testing innovative approaches to…
22 Oct, 2026
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Earth Today | Clock ticks on 2030 nature targets
THE SLOW rate of progress to hit the 23 targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) by 2030, in order to put nature on a path to recovery, is setting off alarm bells, while the…
22 Oct, 2026
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Proposed water tariff increase is unreasonable
THE EDITOR, Madam:
22 Oct, 2026
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Sergio Díaz-Granados | The many faces of El Niño
In April 2024, Bogotá was forced to ration its water supply when the Chingaza system, which provides 70 per cent of the city’s water, fell to approximately 16 per cent of its capacity. In Grenada,…
22 Oct, 2026
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Carvell N. McLeary | Can we just get along? Please?
Jamaica doesn’t need to introduce social partnership approaches, the cooperative arrangement of organised groups (International Labour Organization ILO recommendation). The national framework exists. …
22 Oct, 2026
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Nightly curfews in place ‘for as long as necessary’
PARIS (AP): Fresh curfews were being imposed across the city centres of Paris and Lyon on Tuesday after the first quiet night since France’s most destructive rioting in years, as Prime Minister…
22 Oct, 2026
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Alberta rejects a move toward independence
EDMONTON (AP): Voters in oil-rich Alberta province overwhelmingly backed remaining in Canada, with early referendum results delivering a boost to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push for national unity…