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Thirteen-year-old Niyati Chetransh will perform a groundbreaking AI fusion symphony at the India satellite event, alternating lines between artificial intelligence and her own live music.
December 9, 2025

AI belongs to everyone

The UNESCO Information For All Programme (IFAP) Working Group on Information Accessibility (WGIA) will host its sixth annual online one-day AI4IA Conference on September 28 to commemorate the…
Orah Teller-Miszrahi
December 9, 2025

American woman missing after being picked up by male companion at Jamaican airport

The May Pen police are seeking to locate an 21-year-old American woman who has been unreachable since landing in Jamaica on Friday. She is Orah Teller-Miszrahi of Evergreen Ave, Lakewood, New…
Spanish Town Hospital.
December 9, 2025

Man shot dead by police after knife attack at Spanish Town Hospital

The Independent Commission of Investigations is probing the fatal shooting by the police of a man who reportedly attacked another with a knife on the grounds of the Spanish Town Hospital in St…
Rose Hall Developments, the St James Municipal Corporation and residents of Spot Valley and adjoining communities united to clean up the Rose Hall Beach in Montego Bay.
December 9, 2025

Rose Hall Developments leads major beach cleanup, boosts community action

In a robust display of environmental stewardship, Rose Hall Developments spearheaded a major coastal cleanup Saturday morning, galvanising community participation in collaboration with the St James…
Joan Phillips-Bennett
December 9, 2025

Educator advocates for persons with exceptionalities

On August 31, Joan Phillips-Bennett, also known as Ade Nima, launched the first episode of her newly rebranded the Empower Exceptionalities Jamaica (EEJ) Podcast. The journey to this point has been…

Then Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (right) poses with birthday girl Pamela Redwood at her party in this January 2013 photo.
December 9, 2025

Ode to Portia

Pamela Redwood has worked closely with Portia for more than 30 years. Following the disclosure by Simpson Miller’s husband that his wife is suffering from dementia, Redwood paid the following tribute…
The resident said the water broke the glass door on her house, toppling furniture and leaving the entire house in a mess.
December 9, 2025

Trafalgar Park resident blames construction of apartment complex after floodwaters ravage home

A resident of Trafalgar Park in New Kingston is counting her losses from Friday's heavy rains after water from the nearby gully flooded her home, damaging furniture and appliances and leaving…
 From left: Team CIBC Caribbean’s Claude Campbell, senior manager, architecture services; Jerome Griffiths, head of human resources; Renee Whitehorne, marketing manager; Annique Dawkins, head of country; Shaniece Llewellyn, marketing assistant; Candice H
December 9, 2025

Urgent call for greater national access to cancer testing

The 14th annual CIBC Caribbean Walk for the Cure was officially launched last week at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel in St Andrew under the theme, ‘Commitment – Community – Courage’, as survivors,…
The traffic police are investigating both incidents.
December 9, 2025

Two men killed in separate road crashes

Forty-five-year-old Marlon Bell has succumbed to injuries he sustained in a vehicular crash along Highway 2000 in St Catherine on Friday. Bell, who hailed from Greater Portmore, St Catherine, was…