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Reggae Boyz Blake, Burke, Powell could miss MLS Eastern Conference Championship
The Philadelphia Union's Jamaican trio of national goalkeeper Andre Blake, defender Alvas Powell and Cory Burke could be at risk of not taking the field for their club's biggest game of the season. The group were among 11 players who have entered...
CommentsCNN fires Chris Cuomo for helping brother deal with scandal
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN fired anchor Chris Cuomo on Saturday after details emerged about how he assisted his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, as the politician faced sexual harassment allegations earlier this year. The network...
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US$100-million gap Premium
Nearly US$100 million or more than J$13 billion in payments made by Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP) over a four-year period to its joint venture partner in the Jamalco refinery cannot be accounted for, a leaked preliminary treasury and financial...
Comments$50-million contract controversy hits RADA Premium
An alleged scoring error that resulted in an initial winner of a multimillion-dollar contract to supply tractors has plunged the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) into controversy, with a lawsuit threat from the aggrieved company...
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Century-old laws targeted
Barbados’ transition to a republic last week has reignited talks locally of removing Queen Elizabeth as Jamaica’s head of state after more than a quarter-century of dithering. Prime Minister Andrew Holness last weekend also hinted at steps being...
CommentsGod save the Queen?
Jamaica has, for decades, been giving consideration to the value of retaining the monarchy. Under the present system, the country swears allegiance to the Queen. Successive administrations have suggested that separating from the monarchy would be a...
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PREMIER SHIFT Premium
LOCAL PREMIER League clubs appear set to continue their new thrust of focusing on young players, with a paradigm shift aimed at capitalising fully on the business of football to make money. The trend of clubs fielding mostly youngsters kicked in...
CommentsFrancis critical of umpiring
NATIONAL SENIOR netball head coach, Connie Francis, wanted a strong response from her team after their first Test loss to England last week Sunday. Instead, the Sunshine Girls could not recover after a poor start as they fell 66-47 in yesterday’s...
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KPMG outsourcing unit doubles workforce, adds second location Premium
KPMG Jamaica has doubled its outsourcing workforce from 250 to 500 in a year, and is still in the process of hiring more people, having co-invested in expanded facilities. The rapid expansion of subsidiary business KPMG Jamaica Extended Support...
CommentsCaribbean Cement cites cost savings ahead of Cemex royalty payment vote Premium
Caribbean Cement Company Limited appears to see the royalty payment to Cemex partly as payback, noting that for five years it has benefited from the intellectual property and internal systems of its Mexican parent Cemex for which is received value...
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Sunset showers bless Groundation for Pee Wee at Inna de Yard
In Rastafari, the touching of the ‘groun’ signifies the unification of the body and the Earth, and when the element of rain is added to that synergy, the showers are hailed as blessings. For that reason, the rain did not mark the end of the...
Comments‘Wah fi yuh cyaa be un fi yuh’ – Nick Creegan’s upbringing resonates like a classic Jamaican script
One will recall travelling through the countryside near any river before dawn, capturing the sights of women with baskets of clothes settled down for a day’s worth of washing. Some were accompanied by little children whose laughter echoed into the...
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China, US tussle over Biden’s ‘Summit for Democracy’
BEIJING (AP): China and the United States are tussling over President Joe Biden’s upcoming democracy summit, which the ruling Communist Party sees as a challenge to its authoritarian ways. The party maintains China has its own form of democracy and...
CommentsWHO: Measures used against Delta should work for Omicron
MANILA (AP): Measures used to counter the Delta variant should remain the foundation for fighting the coronavirus pandemic, even in the face of the new Omicron version of the virus, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said Friday while...
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Bookland – labour of love keeps them going
“This is our calling and this is what we love to do,” says Bookland co-owner, Suzzanne Lee, adding that her business has seen better days prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, Lee and her husband have had to finance their 54-year-old store...
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Ceramicare Limited paving the way for the automotive industry
Troy Grant and Ithamar Thorpe are no ordinary business partners, as they formed their relationship through a magical moment. “Originally, it was to be three of us holding down the fort, as auto mechanics. But, the individual that introduced me...
CommentsShacman brings the showroom to Mandeville
Tank-Weld Equipment, official distributor for Shacman in Jamaica and the Caribbean, in partnership with the National Commercial Bank (NCB), hosted a two-day showcase in Mandeville recently. Tank-Weld Equipment Managing Director John Ralston was...
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Dream House | Arcadia Estate takes you back in time
Is time travel possible? This very question has fascinated humanity from the ninth century BC, including fiction writers, philosophers and scientists. Today, astrophysicists and other leading researchers believe travelling back through time will be...
SAINT International models remember late Louis Vuitton and Off-White designer Virgil Abloh
Fashion designer and creative virtuoso Virgil Abloh – the former artistic director for Louis Vuitton menswear and founder and chief executive officer of Off-White – who passed away last Sunday after a private two-year battle with cancer, had a long...
Imani Tafari-Ama | Marital rape is not sexy
When Burnett Robinson, senior pastor of the Grand Concourse Church in the Bronx, preached his sermon on November 13, he did not know it would be his last. But he dug his own professional grave with his words. The Seventh-day-Adventist Church was...
CommentsDelano Franklyn | States of emergency not the answer to address crime
President of the Senate Tom Tavares-Finson, who former Prime Minister Edward Seaga once described as being from ‘good stock’, was at his party-political tribal best in the Senate on Friday, November 26, when he railed against Opposition senators...
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Editorial | Compromising with the police
Orville Taylor | Leaving the Queen and finding a heroine Premium