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Alston High in Clarendon mourns death of groundsman killed in Manchester crash
Grief has descended on Alston High School in Clarendon following the death of 41-year-old groundsman Opheal Hyman, one of five people killed in separate road crashes across the island on Friday. Hyman, of Santa Hill district, Spalding, Clarendon, died af

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Alston High in Clarendon mourns death of groundsman killed in Manchester crash

Grief has descended on Alston High School in Clarendon following the death of 41-year-old groundsman Opheal Hyman, one of five people killed in separate road crashes across the island on Friday. Hyman, of Santa Hill district, Spalding, Clarendon, died af

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Sports

Jamaican clubs work on international standard home grounds

Jamaicas growing ambitions in the Concacaf Caribbean Cup are running headlong into a problem that has little to do with what happens on the pitch. With only a limited number of venues currently capable of hosting regional matches, Jamaica Premier Leagu

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Business

Civil rights groups urge a halt to South Africa data centres boom amid water and power fears

South African civil rights groups are calling for a halt to the construction of additional data centres in the country until the use of scarce water, land and electricity resources has been investigated. With South Africa positioning itself as Africas

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Entertainment

Cassandra Wilson, 2-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, dies at 70

NEW YORK (AP): Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter, and producer, has died. She was 70. Dubbed Americas best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice, which expanded the

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Commentary

Editorial | Demerit flip-flop
There may indeed be flaws in the demerit-points system for motor vehicle drivers. But sceptics have good cause to feel that the latest announced delay in the schemes implementation has less to do with pursuing real fixes than the Governments panderi

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Lifestyle

Mrs Jamaica Universe Dr Alicia Swaby Spencer living life to the fullest

At 5:30 every morning, Dr Alicia Swaby Spencers day is already underway. By 7 a.m., she is at work, and some days will not end until long after the sun has gone down. When she is on call, she may return to the hospital for surgery or to review patients

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In Focus

Imani Tafari-Ama | When the machine does the thinking

The anxiety surrounding the pervasive power of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly its potential impact on mental development, learning and psychosocial behaviour, has become sufficiently serious to prompt policymakers to pause and reconsider the s

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Auto

Electrifying Evolution: The Porsche Cayenne EV

My first time reviewing a Porsche Cayenne was back in 2018, and the engineering felt superb, utilising an electric steering setup that went precisely where you pointed it. Since its initial development and launch that shook the luxury SUV segment decades

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World News

Months after Venezuela earthquakes, a family refuses to give up search for their missing relative

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Antonella Molina, her nephew Pedro Molina and a group of friends set out at 8:00 a.m. on a recent Saturday, hands full of flyers, walking carefully through the rubble that remains throughout La Guaira after two catastrophic bac

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