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August 9, 2026
Kay Osborne | Negotiating from strength: What Jamaica owes itself
Jamaica does not need to stand up to America. Jamaica needs to stand up for Jamaica. This distinction lies at the heart of an essential conversation about sovereignty, foreign policy, and good…
August 9, 2026
Sean Major Campbell | Ancestors calling for independence
Our African ancestors have questions. The Old Testament reading set in Deuteronomy Chapter 8 is raising questions in the mind. To be more precise, the pericope is verses 11-20. However, the wider…
August 9, 2026
He’s doing it unpaid
BUNIA, Congo (AP): Wiza Bondele goes to work every day at a hospital in Congo with one goal in mind: to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record. At an Ebola treatment hospital in the eastern…
August 9, 2026
US job market stalled in July as employers cut 23,000 jobs, delivering political blow to Trump
The US job market stalled unexpectedly last month, delivering a political blow to President Donald Trump three months ahead of midterm elections and complicating decision-making for the inflation…
August 9, 2026
SpaceX shares rise even as company insiders get a chance to sell for the first time
Stock in Elon Musk’s space company rose Thursday even after many SpaceX insiders were freed up to sell for the first time. Investors in SpaceX have pushed the shares down sharply in recent days in…
August 9, 2026
Women run the workforce, while men lead at the board level, VM Group data shows
Women account for nearly three-quarters of the workforce at VM Group – among the island’s oldest financial entities – but that ratio flips at the board level, according to the company’s 2025 annual…
August 9, 2026
August 9, 2026
Poems
Freedom calls, I answer Do you hear that ? That’s the sound of no alarm clock to suit another man’s time Do you smell that ? Most people breathe in bitterness, but I – I am inhaling liberation Do…
August 9, 2026
Jamalco unplugs from grid, power turbine set to save up to US$28m a year
Century Aluminum Company brought a new power-generation turbine online at its Jamalco alumina refinery in Clarendon at the beginning of August, enabling the plant to generate all its own electricity,…