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Update | Iran’s top leaders alive ‘as far as I know,’ says foreign minister

February 28, 2026 | News
Iran’s foreign minister says the country’s Supreme Leader and president are alive “as far as I know,” as Saturday’s US-Israeli strikes and Iran’s retaliation intensify fears of a wider Middle East war. US President Donald Trump has called on the Iranian public to “seize control of your destiny” by rising up against the Islamic leadership that has ruled the nation since 1979. Iran retaliated by launching missiles and drones toward Israel and US military bases in the region.
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Deported St Catherine man remanded on shooting, gun charges

A man recently deported to Jamaica to face serious gun charges was remanded when he appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court on Friday. Akeem Jackson, otherwise called 'Bobo Sparks', 31, is charged with shooting with intent, malicious destruction of property, illegal possession of firearm, possession of ammunition, and using a firearm to commit an offence. When he appeared before Senior Parish Court Judge Desiree Alleyne, the matter was transferred to the High Court Division of the Gun Court. He is to return to court on March 20.
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Update | Iran’s top leaders alive ‘as far as I know,’ says foreign minister

Iran’s foreign minister says the country’s Supreme Leader and president are alive “as far as I know,” as Saturday’s US-Israeli strikes and Iran’s retaliation intensify fears of a wider Middle East war. US President Donald Trump has called on the Iranian public to “seize control of your destiny” by rising up against the Islamic leadership that has ruled the nation since 1979. Iran retaliated by launching missiles and drones toward Israel and US military bases in the region.
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Senior citizen found dead at St Catherine home

Police have launched a homicide investigation following the killing of a 68-year-old man at his home in Windsor Heights, St Catherine, on Friday morning. The deceased has been identified as Hartman Johnson, a labourer of Walkers Avenue in the community. Reports are that about 11 a.m. yesterday, passersby summoned the police after discovering Johnson lying unresponsive at the entrance to his house. Upon arrival, officers observed that Johnson was in a pool of blood and had wounds to the neck, face and torso.

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Path cleared for gun fight

The Court of Appeal has cleared the way for a high-profile judicial review, after setting aside a ruling by the Supreme Court and allowing a licensed firearm holder to challenge the Firearm Licensing Authority’s (FLA) power to seize his weapon without express statutory permission. The ruling follows an October 28, 2021 decision by Justice Chester Stamp to refuse the firearm holder permission to apply for judicial review. Stamp judge also denied the man permission to appeal that decision.

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Tahj Marques White of Kingston College leads his school to victory in the high school boys 4x400m Open at last year’s Gibson McCook Relays.
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Fast track to glory: 49th Gibson Relays ready to ignite National Stadium

The premier local relay carnival, the Gibson McCook Relays, will stage its 49th renewal today inside the National Stadium starting at 4 p.m. In what will be a truncated format this year, fans are in store for an action-packed event lasting just over four hours, and Ryan Peralto, a member of the organising committee, is upbeat about today’s staging.

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Tuma Basa, director of music culture at YouTube, sharing insights during the ‘Streaming Maths: How to actually make money on Digital Service Providers’ discussion on Thursday.
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YouTube exec says violent, profane videos get views not coins

While attendees at the Island Music Conference (IMC) sought to learn not only how to navigate the modern music industry but also how to make a living from it, Tuma Basa of YouTube was adamant about sharing what he sees as the number one reason many YouTubers go from earning coins to fizzling out without ever understanding where they went wrong.

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February 27, 2026

Regulator orders drug divestment for $30-billion-plus insulin market

Acado Limited, a Caribbean joint venture, must sell the local distribution rights to one of its insulin brands by September 2026 — or lose the right to complete a landmark acquisition, according to a Fair Trading Commission (FTC) ruling released this week. The move aims to protect an estimated 250,000 Jamaicans living with diabetes, who rely on one of three insulin brands. The acquisition would reduce the number of companies selling them to a single entity.

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Krystal Tomlinson Carter (left), the evening’s emcee and founder of The Speakers’ Academy, shares a moment with Kimberly Gardner, public affairs and communications manager, Caribbean, North and Central, Scotiabank.
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Something Extra | Saturday

Scotiabank Jamaica recently hosted its SME Soirée at CRU Bar & Kitchen in St Andrew, bringing together small and medium-size enterprise (SME) clients, business leaders, industry stakeholders and members of the bank’s executive team for an evening of networking. The event forms part of the bank’s Scotia Vision Achiever (SVA) programme, which has invested nearly $100 million in local SMEs since its inception in 2011.

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This February 17 photo shows a collision involving a Toyota Axio motor car and an Isuzu truck along Mandela Highway.
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Editorial | Make roads safe

There was good news and bad news in the crash report released this week by the Island Traffic Authority (ITA). The good news: that in the first 54 days of 2026 (up to February 23) road traffic fatalities were down 31 per cent, while fatal crashes decreased by 35 per cent compared to the same period last year. If that trend holds, there will possibly be approximately 127 fewer road deaths in 2026, than the 373 who died in road crashes in 2025.

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