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24 Sep, 2025
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Something Extra | Friday
Access Financial Services (AFS) celebrated its 25th anniversary in grand style on Saturday night at The Jamaica Pegasus. Held under the theme ‘Moonlight and Magic’, the silver jubilee featured guest…
24 Sep, 2025
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Gas prices down $2.60, diesel down $0.54
Motorists will pay less for gas on Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 is to move down by $2.60 to sell for $158.81 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will go down by $2.60…
24 Sep, 2025
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Charlie Kirk is no martyr, say black pastors
AP: How Charlie Kirk is being memorialised — with many conservatives and white Christians, particularly evangelicals, emphasising his faith and labelling him a martyr — has sparked debate among black…
24 Sep, 2025
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Coconut farmers urged to report bud rot
The Coconut industry Board (CIB) is urging coconut farmers to report incidents of bud rot on their farms. Caused by the Phytophthora palmivora pathogen, bud rot is a fungal disease, that attacks the…
24 Sep, 2025
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Ja poised to get Royalton CHIC Resort next year
WESTERN BUREAU: Royalton CHIC is set to bring its signature brand of glamour, style, and high-energy sophistication to Jamaica, with the announcement of Royalton CHIC Jamaica Paradise Cove, An adults…
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24 Sep, 2025
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Drone strike on a market kills 15
CAIRO (AP): An aid worker and a local group in Sudan said a drone strike by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed 15 people at a bustling market in the besieged city of…
24 Sep, 2025
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21-y-o charged over imitation gun seized at party in St Mary
A 21-year-old St Mary man has been charged by the police over the seizure of an imitation gun in Stewart Town. Travis Shearer was charged on Wednesday with possession of a prohibited weapon. Reports…
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24 Sep, 2025
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ICE arrests one of Haiti’s most powerful and wealthy businessmen
SAN JUAN (AP): Federal immigration agents have arrested Dimitri Vorbe, one of Haiti’s most powerful businessmen and the latest elite figure from the troubled Caribbean country to be detained on US…
24 Sep, 2025
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‘Nightmare bacteria’ cases are increasing in US
NEW YORK (AP) — Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70% between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists. …