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17 Oct, 2025
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Byron Blake | Award and reward: Is there a difference?
In an increasingly transactional, materialistic, and individualistic world, the distinction between award and reward has become blurred. Service has been replaced by “what is in it for me” and civil…
17 Oct, 2025
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Injury-free and ready: Agent says Lyston is back and targeting world elite
Dwight ‘Bigga’ Thomas, the agent for 2022 World Under-20 200 metres champion Brianna Lyston, says the 21-year-old athlete is now injury-free and ready to make her mark on the global stage. Thomas, a…
17 Oct, 2025
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Edith Baxter Memorial Award finalists honoured in Toronto
Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, has commended the finalists of the 2025 Edith Baxter Memorial Award initiated by the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) and the Baxter family in Toronto,…
17 Oct, 2025
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Bog Walk Gorge impassable
The police are advising the public that the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine is impassable amid the inclement weather. The police are reporting that fallen boulders and rising water levels are blocking…
17 Oct, 2025
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McKenzie pledges upgrades to Clarendon Drop-In Centre
Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, has pledged to address concerns at the Clarendon Drop-in Centre to ensure that the facility adequately meets the needs of the…
17 Oct, 2025
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Political deadlock and spending on dual crises leaves French finances in disarray
France is a major industrial power with the world’s seventh-largest economy. So why are its government finances in such a mess? A political deadlock in parliament has left President Emmanuel Macron…
17 Oct, 2025
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Breast cancer taking toll in Westmoreland
Western Bureau: Westmoreland has one of the highest incidences of breast cancer in Jamaica and doctors say that’s only part of the crisis. “We have one of the highest incidence of breast cancer in the…
17 Oct, 2025
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Remembering a fighter
Western Bureau: When Dorothy Satchwell spoke with The Gleaner Thursday evening, at the Faith Gifford Breast Cancer Symposium, she couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed by the turnout. “The support for…
17 Oct, 2025
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Wherever I go, Jamaica always on my mind
Dancehall superstar Sean Paul is continuing his Asian sojourn, which began in Singapore earlier this year and now takes him to exotic destinations such as Malaysia, Bali, and Thailand this month.…