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Fatal police shooting in Bog Walk

A man was fatally shot by the police during an alleged confrontation in High Mountain district in Bog Walk, St Catherine, on Wednesday. He has been identified as 35-year-old Dywane Edwards, otherwise…
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Pathways Ministries Trial | My daughter and pastor Kevin Smith were not in a relationship, father of murder victim testifies

The father of Taneka Gardner, who was allegedly killed during a sacrificial ritual at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James in 2021, this morning denied that his…
Bahía de las Águilas, National Recreation Area within a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Hispaniola. Photo: Kurt Prospere/CBF.
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Earth Today | Learning from climate-resilience approaches in Hispaniola

TUCKED INTO the southwest corner of Hispaniola, where the Dominican Republic meets Haiti, lies a stretch of land and sea unlike almost anywhere else on Earth. Mountains give way to dry forest, dry…
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Earth Today | Integrated action said key to solving the world’s climate, clean air woes

WITH THE world appearing set to exceed, if only temporarily, 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming while air pollution claims the lives of millions each year, there is an urgent call to action for an…
Volunteers work together to remove garbage from the Port Royal Beach as part of a beach clean-up activity hosted by the European Union Delegation to Jamaica, in recognition of an earlier International Coastal Clean-Up Day.
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Earth Today | ‘Away is a place’

THE JAMAICA Environment Trust (JET) is challenging the public – individuals and organisations alike – to take stock of what happens after their solid waste leaves their hands with the observance of…
Sharon Harris, managing  director, Tru Finishes Limited, presents schoolbags to children from the Maxfield Avenue area during the company’s annual back-to-school treat for children in the area recently.
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Corporate Hands | Tru Finishes Limited hosts back-to-school treat

Vermont Murray (left), project manager of the Good Samaritan Inn, shares a moment with Patrick Forrest, president of the Rotary Club of St Andrew North, during the Back-to-School Health Fair at the Inn’s drop-in centre on September 6. Through a partnersh
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Corporate Hands | Rotary Club of St Andrew North, Good Samaritan Inn partner for community health fair

Scholarship recipient Teshauna Lewis (centre) stands alongside Krista-Gaye Fisher (left), CEO of Supreme Ventures Services Limited, and Stefan Miller, CEO of Supreme Ventures Gaming. They attended the launch of the Supreme Ventures Foundation’s scholarsh
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Corporate Hands | Supreme Ventures Services Limited commits J$100M to tertiary education scholarships for state wards

Members of the Naggo Head Infant School community display boxes of Nutri+ Milk during the handover on Friday, September 4. Pictured are Joylyn Fuller-Hunter; Shanika Clarke-Cown; Rodain Richardson, chairman; and Sophia Francis, Principal. Nutri+ Milk has
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Corporate Hands | Seprod pledges year-long milk support for Naggo Head Infant School