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BREAKING BARRIERS - Women’s Centre helping 139 teen moms to head back to school on Monday

September 05, 2026 | News
Nearly 140 adolescent mothers will return to school on Monday, a move executive director of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), Novlette Howell, said reflects a shifting attitude towards the reintegration of teenage mothers into the classroom. “The notion where our girls are not getting into institutions, it’s a thing of the past,” she told The Gleaner.
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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 Africa’s main data hub and US technology companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Equinix increasingly setting up digital infrastructure in the country, civil society organisations have raised the alarm about the lack of transparency around the projects.
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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 America’s best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice, which expanded the boundaries of traditional blues-based jazz and worked effortlessly across folk, pop, R&B, country, and beyond. At the heart of all her work was her idiosyncratic contralto, a soulful sound distinctly tied to her roots. As Jon Batiste put it in a eulogy on Wednesday, Wilson sounded like the South.
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BPO Transition: Balancing Investor Realities with Economic Necessity

In May 2024, I issued a stark warning in this column: Jamaica was standing directly in the pathway of a technology-driven economic tremor. I cautioned that our heavy national reliance on outsourced North American call-centre jobs left our economy acutely vulnerable. Just over two years later, the tremors are at our shores, and the signs aren’t confined to international headlines. Sector Leaders Under Pressure

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US visa squeeze - Americans turn up pressure on Jamaica amid C-TOC cocaine probe

A senior Jamaican public official has confirmed that their American tourist visa was cancelled while in the United States (US) on official duty. American authorities also cancelled the tourist visas of two high-ranking Jamaican policemen who were recently in the US on separate assignments, multiple law-enforcement operatives told The Sunday Gleaner last week.

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The newly resurfaced running track at the National Stadium in Kingston.
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Jamaican clubs work on international standard home grounds

Jamaica’s 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 League (JPL) clubs are increasingly looking beyond squad building and towards the development of local facilities. For clubs like Arnett Gardens, Montego Bay United and Cavalier, their ambition is clear; invest in their home venues until they meet Concacaf standards.

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Louise Bennett-Coverley, Jamaica’s beloved Miss Lou, would have turned 108 on September 7.
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Miss Lou’s legacy demands more

On September 7, Louise Bennett-Coverley, our beloved Miss Lou, would have marked her 108th birthday. Every year, we praise her. We quote her. We celebrate her poetry, her performances, her wit, her irreverence and her extraordinary contribution to Jamaica. We speak about her as a national icon, a cultural treasure, a woman who gave voice and legitimacy to the Jamaican people. And yet, I continue to ask: What does it really mean to celebrate Miss Lou?

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AP Cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer stacked in a liquor store in November 2018, in Milwaukee, USA.
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Pabst Blue Ribbon offers $20,000 reward to help find its missing beer

Pabst Blue Ribbon wants its beer back, and it is offering a reward to help that happen. Greig DeBow, the CEO of Pabst Brewing Co, said Wednesday that the company would pay up to US$20,000 to anyone who provides new information that leads to the recovery of 1,602 cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon and non-alcoholic Old Milwaukee beer. The beer went missing on August 17 in Southern California. “I’m sure they look cool with a garage full of PBR,” DeBow said in a post on TikTok. “That’s actually not cool, though. We want it back.”

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Veronica Richards-Whittaker beams with pride, following her first place win at the 2026 National Senior Spelling Bee Champion held on Thursday.
September 5, 2026

GoodHeart | Senior Spelling Bee champion gets every word right

On Thursday, Veronica Richards-Whittaker entered the ballroom of The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston with one goal, to become the 2026 National Senior Spelling Bee Champion and take the trophy home to St Mary. She did just that, with a magnificent display that saw her spelling every word correctly. “I came here with the intention to win,” Richards Whittaker told GoodHeart without any hint of boasting. “St Mary last won in 2022, and I said it’s time for the trophy to come home. I feel very proud of myself.”

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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 scheme’s implementation has less to do with pursuing real fixes than the Government’s pandering to taxi and other public transportation operators. The perception is that the strategy of these groups is to whinge, threaten and delay until the demerit-points arrangement is forgotten and withers into oblivion. The transport operators, with respect to this matter, are utilising their well-worn playbook.

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