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Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, providing an update on visitor arrivals and tourism earnings during a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank in St Andrew on Wednesday, September 2.
Published 16 hours ago by Albert Ferguson

Bartlett appeals for authentic Jamaican souvenirs

WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is challenging Jamaica’s craft vendors and artisans to move away from imported souvenirs and seek to create authentic Jamaican products that showcase…
A man repairs air conditioners on the street in Lagos, Nigeria,.
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Ronald Sanders | The world has broken the 1.5°C promise

The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it…
June Spence Jarrett, executive director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), presents a school bag and other school supplies to a child at JADCO’s back-to-school treat held at the Siloah New Testament Church of God in St Elizabeth on August 29.
Published 16 hours ago

More than 200 benefit from JADCO’s back-to-school treat in Siloah

More than 200 parents and children were fêted and gifted school supplies by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) at its back-to-school treat in Siloah, St Elizabeth on August 29. The community…
This image, released by Universal Pictures, shows Matt Damon as Odysseus and Zendaya as Athena, in a scene from ‘The Odyssey’.
Published 16 hours ago

Early predictions for the 2027 Oscar race

NEW YORK (AP): Fall movie season also means Oscar season. It might be only just September but the jockeying for next March’s Academy Awards is well underway. Movies first started revving up their…
Deputy Prime Minister Dr Horace Chang (left) examines the proposed design for the Old Fort Craft Market in Montego Bay with Jamaica Social Investment Fund Managing Director Omar Sweeney.
Published 16 hours ago by Albert Ferguson

Chang wants major craft centre on the north coast

WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Prime Minister Dr Horace Chang is calling for the development of a major craft centre along Jamaica’s north coast as the country seeks to expand its craft industry and create…
Updated 12 hours ago

Tony Deyal | Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink

Last week, having chosen the great Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name ‘Mark Twain’, an American writer, humourist and essayist, people liked it so much that I was asked to continue with a…
From left: Danielle Insang (left), brand marketing lead at CB Foods, with scholarship recipients Akeem Brown, Wayne Smith, Shamar Morrison, Shani Williams, Tyquon McDougall and Samantha Fisher (third right), assistant brand manager at CB Foods.
Published 16 hours ago

CB Chicken backs students at Tivoli Gardens back-to-school treat

For 14-year-old Shani Williams, receiving an $80,000 scholarship from CB Chicken brought both a smile and a welcome sense of relief. The Holy Childhood High School student is being supported for the…
Omar Wright (right), lead, Environment and Community Development at the JN Foundation, hands over back-to-school-supplies to Roan Green, principal of Petersfield High School in Westmoreland. JN Foundation made the donation to the institution during a visit
Published 16 hours ago

Petersfield High principal praises resilient staff

Roan Green, principal of Petersfield High School in Westmoreland, has praised the resilience and unwavering commitment of his teachers for their efforts to keep learning on track at the institution…
All set to start her first year at the University of Technology, Chritine-Ameila Seville receives a kiss from her proud father, Christopher Seville, a teacher’s aide at the Jamaica Association for the Deaf. The younger Seville was a recipient of the JPS
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GoodHeart |Chritine-Amelia Seville’s engineering dream takes flight

Tuition expenses will not be a concern for Chritine-Amelia Seville when she begins university this month. The University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech)-bound student is among five recipients of the…