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22 Sep, 2025
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Michael Abrahams | Charlie Kirk: a life devoid of empathy
Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder has created a firestorm, with responses ranging from profound grief and anger to open celebrations of his passing. Grief is a natural response after someone dies,…
22 Sep, 2025
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Veteran jockey Oneil Mullings killed in gun attack, two brothers identified as suspects
The St Andrew South police are probing the shooting death of 49-year-old veteran jockey Oneil Ricardo Mullings in his community on Sunday. The police say two brothers, with whom Mullings had a…
22 Sep, 2025
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Editorial | What’s with the Abbas vote?
It might otherwise have gone unnoticed and uncommented on. But the exceptional circumstances of Gaza, and Jamaica’s previous misstep in a related UN vote, requires that Kingston explain why it didn’t…
22 Sep, 2025
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Growth & Jobs | JBDC targets 500 businesses in digital transformation push
THE JAMAICA Business Development Corporation (JBDC) has set its sights on digitally transforming at least one internal business process for 500 Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) under…
22 Sep, 2025
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Letter of the Day | Growth without values is fragile
THE EDITOR, Madam: In his inaugural address marking the start of his third term, Prime Minister Andrew Holness offered a wide-ranging vision for Jamaica’s development. He pledged innovative policies…
22 Sep, 2025
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Much work needs to be done on constitutional reforms
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing with reference to the letter, “Treat constitutional reform with urgency,” published in The Gleaner on September 20. I am deeply concerned about the lack of the…
22 Sep, 2025
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Is it the size or effectiveness of government?
THE EDITOR, Madam: The recent swearing-in of 18 ministers, 13 state ministers, and one parliamentary secretary, bringing Jamaica’s executive ranks to 32, has sparked renewed debate about whether our…
22 Sep, 2025
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Immigration Corner | Sponsoring a child discovered abroad
Dear Miss Powell, My husband and I came to Canada six years ago as a couple. We recently visited Jamaica, and I was introduced to a six-year-old girl whose mother claimed my husband was the father. At…
21 Sep, 2025
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Growth & Jobs | A victory ‘Taylor-made’ for 2025 CB PAN Chicken Champion
BY THE time April Taylor was 13 years old, she was already operating her own jerk business in her community in Spanish Town, St Catherine, selling chicken after school to earn an income and sharpen…