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August 16, 2026
Anthony Hopkins on his debut album: ‘My first love is music’
NEW YORK (AP): It may be hard to believe, but even Sir Anthony Hopkins doubts himself sometimes. “There’s a part of me which says, ‘you didn’t write that,’” he recalls of composing his debut album,…
August 16, 2026
Blues ‘enthusiast’ Morgan Freeman’s album covers 100 years of the genre
NEW YORK (AP): It happened out of necessity. Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman was in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 25 years ago when some out-of-towners asked where they could hear blues music.…
August 16, 2026
At US colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer science
The Associated Press: With no background in coding, Faith Maeba, a psychology major, was reluctant when her mother first suggested she enrol in classes on artificial intelligence. But the senior at…
August 16, 2026
Heavy schoolbags can strain kids’ bodies
Backpacks can be fashionable and functional, but they can also be too heavy – weighed down by digital devices, musical instruments, sports equipment and more. Some kids carry home a laptop or tablet…
August 16, 2026
Medical career roadmap for a Caribbean student
The fictitious case of Kerlene Rumble and her mother, Linda Bissram. An A-QuEST General-Information Guidance Note Linda Bissram and her daughter, Kerlene Rumble, are entirely fictitious persons.…
August 16, 2026
A prophet born in St Ann’s Bay
This week, Jamaica pauses to remember the birth of a man whose voice would eventually echo far beyond the small north-coast town where he took his first breath. August 17 marks the anniversary of the…
August 16, 2026
Getting over the first-night effect
The first night in a new place is always the same for Robinson Leoni: He takes longer to fall asleep, wakes up more often during the night, and gets less sleep overall. At home, he averages seven…
August 16, 2026
Be a ‘mirror’, not a ‘camera’
A mirror and a camera both reflect what comes before them, but there is one important difference: a mirror reflects while a camera records and stores. When an image moves away from a mirror, nothing…
August 23, 2026
Mark Wignall | More heated than the conflict
Even in the midst of celebrating our independence and highlighting some of the brave individuals who stuck around for the long haul in building Jamaica, the war between Iran and the US continues to…