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Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2025 | 10:15 AMOlivia Guest and Iris van Rooij for Project Syndicate

NIJMEGEN: Modern AI technologies severely impede humans’ ability to learn and retain skills, while also making it nearly impossible for academics and other experts to cultivate and disseminate knowledge. Many scholars, including us, have...

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2025 | 10:07 AMHilary J. Allen for Project Syndicate

WASHINGTON, DC: OpenAI Co-Founder Sam Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have joined the chorus of people talking about an AI bubble and expressing concern that the US economy will nosedive when it bursts. But...

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2025 | 9:51 AMDiane Coyle for Project Syndicate

CAMBRIDGE: Is AI transforming the economy in any real sense, or is the promise of rapid growth mere hype? US stock markets certainly favour the former view: shares of AI and tech companies have accounted for about three-quarters of the S&P 500...

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2025 | 9:24 AMIsaiah Andrews and Maryam Farboodi for Project Syndicate

CAMBRIDGE: Speculation about AI’s implications for society has reached a fever pitch. While OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman speaks of a future of radical abundance, others, including another OpenAI co-founder, Ilya Sutskever, warn of existential...

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2025 | 10:15 AM

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist's pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more.  Take a look at this week's past line-up of cartoons as...

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2025 | 10:01 AM

As Jamaica’s judiciary embraces artificial intelligence, experts are urging the establishment of proper systems to govern its use in court operations. Following Chief Justice Bryan Sykes’ introduction of protocols for AI-generated...

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2025 | 9:52 AM

A new global poverty report has found that nearly 79,000 Jamaicans – about 2.8 per cent of the population – are living in multidimensional poverty, surviving on less than US$3 a day and facing deprivations in health, education, and...

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2025 | 9:44 AM

Dr Faith Alexander is urging Jamaica’s teacher-training colleges to include special education modules in all programmes to better equip teachers to support neurodivergent learners. She said too many children with learning differences enter...

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2025 | 9:32 AM

A St James taxi operator says the deplorable state of the Montpelier main road is eating away at his earnings, forcing him to spend $30,000 to $40,000 each week on vehicle repairs. The driver, identified only as Junior, said constant damage to his...

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2025 | 9:12 AM

Jamaicans were left reeling after two suspected suicides occurred within a 24-hour period – one at The University of the West Indies, Mona, and the other involving a police officer in St Elizabeth. Twenty-year-old UWI student Victoria Hanley-...

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2025 | 9:07 AM

Former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson has remained notably silent on CARICOM’s muted response to unfolding global conflicts and humanitarian crises. Once a leading voice for regional unity and international justice, Patterson has not publicly...

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2025 | 8:44 AM

Opposition Spokesperson on Justice Zulieka Jess is calling for the Government to expand its proposed expungement reforms by automatically clearing not only non-custodial offences but also convictions carrying sentences of five years or less after a...

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2025 | 7:40 AM

Cornwall Regional Hospital has been forced to prioritise trauma and cancer cases as a surge in road accident victims strains its operating schedule, says Dr. Delroy Fray, clinical coordinator for the Western Regional Health Authority. With 285...

Published:Friday | October 17, 2025 | 7:58 AM

On October 15, 1968, the Government of Jamaica declared Walter Rodney persona non grata. He was not allowed to leave the plane that brought him back to Jamaica from a Black Writers’ Congress in Canada.The decision to ban him sparked protests...

Published:Friday | October 17, 2025 | 7:52 AM

After being barred from re-entering Jamaica, University of the West Indies lecturer Dr Walter Rodney declared that his exclusion came as no surprise, stating, “I have discovered that in Jamaica to be a black man is dangerous.” His words...

Published:Friday | October 17, 2025 | 7:43 AM

Seventeen-year-old Judy Verity was overcome with emotion as she was crowned “Miss Jamaica 1954” at the Myrtle Bank Hotel. Bursting into tears of joy at the announcement, she quickly regained her poise, dazzling the crowd in a white lace...

Published:Friday | October 17, 2025 | 7:35 AM

 Jamaica’s Olympic football team stunned spectators by holding Uruguay’s Club Nacional to a 1-1 draw. After falling behind in the second half, the young and inexperienced Jamaicans roared back with a determined equaliser that sent...

Published:Friday | October 17, 2025 | 7:22 AM

Sir Alexander Bustamante and Lady Bustamante were the centre of attention at a glittering reception hosted by the Thursday Club of Young Jamaica at the Courtleigh Manor Hotel. Against a backdrop of music, coloured lights, and warm fellowship, the...

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 5:00 AMBANG Bizarre

Stevia, a natural sweetener that is also present in fizzy drinks, contains compounds known as steviosides, which - when mixed with over-the-counter drug minoxidil - can revive hair growth on bald heads. In tests conducted on mice, boffins placed a...

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 4:56 AMBANG Bizarre

The study, led by scientists at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, found that men are "significantly" more likely to initiate direct aggression, especially in mixed-gender pairs. However, women proved just as ready to retaliate...

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 4:50 AMBANG Bizarre

An overall examination of 18,288 tweets and retweets over a span of 15 years correlates with long-term health data in the West of England, indicating that individuals posting overnight are more likely to experience poor mental well-being and report...

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 4:46 AMBANG Bizarre

The University College London study, published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, found that older adults who stopped smoking experienced significantly slower cognitive decline than those who continued. Researchers followed 9,400 smokers, ages over...

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 4:39 AMBANG Bizarre

Scientists at Florida Atlantic University in the US found that women who spent just one hour a week training service dogs showed biological signs of slower ageing, compared to those who did not. The study focused on 28 female veterans ages 32 to 72...

Published:Wednesday | October 15, 2025 | 8:04 AMJoseph E. Stiglitz for Project Syndicate

NEW YORK :On July 27, 2025, the United States and the European Union announced a preliminary trade and investment deal in Turnberry, Scotland. But nothing was actually signed, and even if it had been, it would not have been worth the paper it was...

Published:Wednesday | October 15, 2025 | 7:36 AMAndrés Velasco for Project Syndicate

LONDON : Why are citizens of free countries increasingly disenchanted with democracy and tempted to vote for populists and authoritarians? Peruse the press or spend an afternoon with recent academic literature, and you will find that one answer...

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