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“My greatest Christmas wish is for mom to come home,” are the heartfelt words of 11-year-old Fytzroi Robinson. And his mother, Tameka Henry, is doing everything in her power to make that a reality. The child came to national attention two weeks...

With the creation of the new ministry with a long name, it does appear that it is focusing on the antecedents which lead to the production of criminal elements and violent behaviour in the society. With great pride I watched my colleague,...

The improvement of artificial intelligent (AI) programmes and applications has opened up an entire world of fantasy. Now, anyone can create their own ‘reality’ and no one can be the wiser for it. The obvious danger inherent in those artificial...

This month makes seven years that Audley Gordon has been the executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), the agency that runs Jamaica’s landfills and regulates the collection of garbage in the island. That’s a long...

BALTIMORE (AP): As Charles Richardson gradually lost his eyesight to complications from diabetes, certain childhood memories haunted him even more. The Catholic priest appeared vividly in his mind’s eye — the one who promised him a spot on a...

The Jamaica Stock Exchange, JSE, uses several media to give investors and potential investors information on the stock market, listed companies and the economy to enable them to make informed investment decisions. The media used include...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s ‘festival of lights’. On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched...

The record summer heat was met with empty taps for Jamaican consumers. National Water Commission, NWC, plans to embark on a series of projects over the long term to relieve drought conditions, but there may also be an ancient solution that saves...

ON THURSDAY, November 23, I had the privilege of sharing with students in a philosophy class at The University of the West Indies. Our topic was the meaning of life and existence from a Christian perspective. Now, this is a course in which...