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TRILLIONS OF dollars in reparations are owed to nations affected by slavery, a recently concluded study on the quantification of reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery (TCS) in the Americas and the Caribbean has found. The report identifies...
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IT FIRM GeoTechVision says it will “vigorously” appeal yesterday’s Supreme Court judgment dismissing its claim for the state-owned e-Learning Jamaica Company to pay more than US$100 million for terminating a contract to supply over 19,000 tablets...
TWO MEN who swore to serve, reassure, and protect, in roles as law enforcement personnel, have found themselves on the wrong side of the law after a multimillion-dollar robbery of Chinese nationals on Tuesday in Kingston. Reports are that the...
The participation of young children in initiatives aimed at addressing issues regarding climate change must be encouraged. This sentiment was shared by Sheneka Robinson-Wright, project director, TUI Junior Academy Jamaica. Speaking with The Gleaner...
The St Andrew North Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), up to press time last night were at the scene of a murder and shooting at a house along Boone Hall Road in Stony Hill, St Andrew. The heavy downpour of rain did not deter a gunman from...
The lone female defendant who is alleged to be a member of the Clarendon-based Ranko Gang, reportedly headed by a police constable, is to know today whether she will be admitted to bail. Jassett Brown is among 11 individuals, including four police...
WESTERN BUREAU: MEMBERS OF the teaching profession are being urged by academics at Sam Sharpe Teachers College (SSTC) in Montego Bay to adopt chatbots like ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) in order to deliver lessons more...
MIAMI (AP): DONALD TRUMP said yesterday that he has been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate, igniting a federal prosecution that is arguably the most perilous of multiple legal threats against the former...
FORMER MINISTER of National Security Peter Bunting says his confidence in the Integrity Commission has been restored after the anti-corruption body exonerated him in an addendum to a special report, which first accused him of acting improperly in...
JUSTICE MINISTER Delroy Chuck yesterday declared that Jamaica’s single anti-corruption body has no “integrity” and that government lawmakers had no confidence in the reports published by the corruption watchdog. “The commission has demonstrated a...
MEMBER OF Parliament for St Mary Western Robert Montague yesterday asked Speaker of the House of Representatives Marisa Dalrymple Philibert if he could address an addendum from the Integrity Commission, which was tabled in Parliament earlier that...
IN A telephone conversation with her son Evando on Sunday, Evadnie Smith expressed a burning desire to retire and return home to Jamaica. After years of working in the United States, the latter part of which she spent as a nanny, the 56-year-old...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Bible-reading, deaf Javaughn Henry, killed during a confrontation with the security forces last Saturday in Barrett Town, St James, has been positively identified as one of the executioners of two men at a bar in Caanan,...
Cooking meals out in the open on a coal stove, catching a shower in public business places and sleeping at nights in an old Nissan motor car, Lamour Pinnock is living on the edge, in direct contrast to her neighbours in the Portmore Pines housing...
WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS OF Paradise in Montego Bay have expressed concern that the authorities have been slow to respond to fears of child abuse and other infractions related to the Child Care and Protection Act (CCPA) at the Bayith Yahweh...
A crime spree that started in Gregory Park, Portmore, Tuesday night, during which a man and a woman were abducted and forced to withdraw money from Corporate Area ATMs, ended yesterday along the Hellshire main road with the death of one of the...
