Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says an additional $9.65 billion will be allocated to complete payments under the ROOFS programme, bringing total spending on roof repairs since Hurricane Melissa to $21.65 billion. Speaking at a special press briefing at Jamaica House on Tuesday, Holness said the Government is targeting the completion of assessments and payments for 90 per cent of affected households by the end of December. The Ministry of Labour and Social Security had recorded 118,365 household assessments as of September.

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JERUSALEM (AP): When Hamas-led militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, it looked like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s days in office were numbered. With the country overwhelmed by grief and anger after the deadliest security breakdown in its history, his resignation seemed like a matter of time.

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Jamaica’s Under-15 Reggae Boyz missed out on qualifying for the top tier of the tournament phase of the FIFA Under-15 World Cup and Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan, yesterday after suffering a 5-1 defeat to a well-oiled Czech Republic outfit in their final Group AB qualification-stage match. The young Boyz went ahead through a second-minute header but surrendered the lead and trailed 2-1 at half-time. They then conceded three more goals in the second half to slump to their first defeat in five matches at the tournament.

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At the age of 17, his cousin introduced him to the lyrics of the man known as Peter Tosh, and music as he knew it would never be the same again. For Canadian Daniel Douek, this early introduction created a musical paradigm shift that consciously realigned the way he viewed people’s desire for both mental and physical freedom.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic filed papers Monday for what could be the biggest initial public offering (IPO) of stock ever even as its top executive warns that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. The filing sets up the San Francisco company for a Wall Street debut next month, potentially eclipsing the SpaceX initial public offering in June that raised a record US$86 billion. An Anthropic IPO would also put the company ahead of OpenAI in going public in what is expected to be a pair of blockbuster stock debuts for the rival AI labs.

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