Prime Minister Andrew Holness says Jamaica’s partnership with China will now be governed by a new strategic framework that is expected to increase trade between the two […]

The Pension Industry Association of Jamaica (PIAJ) is urging the government to pursue a more aggressive timeline for the passage of phase two reforms of the country’s […]

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Former Cabinet minister Douglas Vaz has died.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness made the announcement in a social media post this […]

The success of the Tsurumi recycling/incineration centre in Yokohama, Japan, which has kept a tight lid on its solid-waste growth, is due largely to its matching of […]

Yokohama, Japan’s second-largest and most populous municipality, with a population in excess of 3.5 million people, is the capital of Kanagawa prefecture.
Growth in t […]

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At least one clinical psychologist is urging the society to do a better job of protecting the country’s most vulnerable – its children.
Clinical psy […]

WESTERN BUREAU:
Under verbal attack and threats since news broke of alleged human trafficking, child abuse, sexual assaults and abduction by leaders of the Qahal Yahweh church, other […]

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WESTERN BUREAU:
Qahal Yahweh’s Chief Apostle Omar Thompson is declaring that the Family Court judge’s decision to remove his thr […]

Being afflicted with dengue fever, which is suspected to have claimed the lives of as many as 50 Jamaicans since last year, was an unforgettable experience that has been […]

F our years ago, principals were calling it ‘a source of grave concern’ and ‘a major problem’. Now, in 2019, those labels remain appropriate when discussing the state o […]

Implantable devices are not a new concept in healthcare. For decades, people have been kept alive by devices like pacemakers that assist the heart to function, for […]

A delegation from the Wolmer’s Group of Schools recently embarked on an information technology (IT) fact-finding mission as it seeks to boost its teaching capabilities g […]

U niversity of the West Indies (UWI) academics are often accused of living in an ivory tower – the “intellectual ghetto” of the late ‘Motty’ Perkins – because we seem out […]

News that reggae music is being replaced by Afrobeats on United Kingdom radio stations has turned the local entertainment industry on its head. Selectors, producers, artistes, and radio disc jocks alike have all […]

Mandeville, Manchester:
As a child, Simone Thomas was quite an adventurer – a tomboy and the consummate fixer who could pull appliances apart, put them back together, a […]

On November 1, Howard Brown received his bachelor of science degree in social work with first-class honours from The University of the West Indies, Mona.
For him, it was […]

Once considered Perry Henzell’s only feature film, The Harder They Come is hailed as a classic by film lovers and critics all over the world, across generations. Now, old reels that were lost have been found, a […]

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Muriel Allman was perhaps not singular in her black pride and the extraordinary way in which she embraced her blackness, but she might […]

In the ‘60s, Barbadian singer and dancer Jackie Opel settled in Jamaica, where he became an integral part of the development of Jamaican music form ska. Fast-forward a few decades, and his countrymen – from Rih […]

We are close to the end of another year, and more significantly, another decade. This is the best time to kick some destructive habits to the curb and enter 2020 ready to […]