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Between the day Jamaica earned its independence and today, the country has tried to find that happy balance between government control for the purposes of protecting its citizens and a completely free-market economy. One of the examples of this has...

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet has been sold for £2.1 million. The social media post, which said "just setting up my twttr", was first published in March 2006 and was sold to Malaysia-based businessman Sina...

A museum has been forced to remove a waxwork of Donald Trump because people kept punching it in the face. Louis Tussaud's Waxworks in San Antonio, Texas, have put the likeness of the former US President back into storage after visitors kept...

An employee's final pay cheque turned up in the form of oil-covered pennies. Andreas Flaten handed in his notice at Walker Luxury Autoworks in the US state of Georgia and recalled his boss Miles Walker not taking the news very well. Flaten, who...

BOGOTÁ – US administrations come and go, but America’s repressive drug strategy remains a constant. Ever since President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs” in 1971, the world has hoped for a change in US drug...

LONDON – The term “industrial strategy” has a turbulent history. After being embraced in the United Kingdom by the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s, it was rejected by Margaret Thatcher and subsequent prime ministers on...

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 Jamaica Defence Force has been in the news over the impropriety of its members again. The latest saga, if true, means the JDF are adding to the alarming rate at which violence against women is committed in Jamaica. Published March 20, 2021 JDF...

Shadow minister of finance, Mark Golding, is suggesting Jamaica turns to farming as a means to counteract the economic hole it has been put in by COVID-19. But COVID-19 has never faced a foe quite like … Ganja. Published March 18, 2021 Ganja...

Minister of Education’s Fayval Williams’ announcement that school would be extended for grade 6 through what should be the start of Summer holidays has not gone down well with teachers, who have not yet had a break, going straight from...

Professor Elsa Leo-Rhynie may well be most well known for becoming the first female principal of a University of the West Indies (UWI) campus, but in truth, her contribution to nation building in Jamaica is much more far reaching. Leo-Rhynie’...

It is not uncommon for educators to transition into representational politics and then back to their true love, and such has been the path of Maxine Henry-Wilson. The Manchester native went to high school in St Andrew, at St Andrew High School,...