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With COVID-19 infections reaching record numbers and hospitals bursting at their seams, good news must be held onto for dear life. The story of Kevin Robinson, a Clarendon man, shot as a teenager and paralyzed for life, might have begun as a...

Jamaica has, for a long time, done well at the Central American and Caribbean Games, but the pride of the countries track and field dominance was probably never more palpable than when those games were held in Kingston 59 years ago at a brand new...

Horse racing in Jamaica is massive and as such, needs a venue as impressive as the popularity of the sport requires. All the way back in 1959, Jamaica created one such venue. Caymanas Park is the centre of all things horse racing, the venue...

A woman has taken 1,000 driving lessons but has never passed her test because she passes out with fear behind the wheel. Isabelle Stedman has been trying to pass her test for three decades but her fear is so bad that she breaks down in tears,...

Eating a hot dog could cost you 36 minutes of a healthy life. A University of Michigan study has evaluated more than 5,800 foods by how much they impact people's health. Choosing to eat a serving of nuts can gain a person 26 minutes of robust...

A zoo in Belgium has banned a woman due to her "affair" with one of the chimpanzees. Adie Timmermans has been visiting a primate called Chita at the zoo in Antwerp every week for the past four years and has forged a strong bond with the...

BERLIN – The COVID-19 pandemic has ruthlessly exposed the global food system’s deficiencies, and a massive escalating hunger crisis now looms. A quarter of humanity lacks secure access to food, with one in ten people affected by severe...

TOWNSHEND, VT – Now that so many sad truths about Afghanistan are being spoken aloud, even in the major media – let me add one more: The war, from start to finish, was about politics, not in Afghanistan but in the United States....

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist’s pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week past’s line-up of cartoons as...

The first Barbadian head of state will be its current Governor General, Dame Sandra Mason. Her rise to president is not set in stone and awaits parliamentary acceptance though it is a more-than-likely eventuality. In addition, Prime Minister...

Cruel irony would be a euphemism when the sad tale of the way People’s National Party veteran KD Knight lost his wife to COVID-19 last week. Knight has been championing a vaccine initiative, only to lose his wife of 54 years to the virus....

The Government of Jamaica has now had to resort to seven days of lockdowns to stave off the debilitating impact of a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, inclusive of the virulent Delta variant. There are no good pictures to paint, as, since this...