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Published:Thursday | August 7, 2025 | 7:37 AMBANG Bizarre

A baby boy has been named the "world's oldest baby" after he was born from an embryo that was frozen in 1994 and "adopted" 30 years later. Lindsey, 35, and Tim Pierce are the parents of Thaddeus Daniel Pierce – who was...

Published:Thursday | August 7, 2025 | 7:31 AMBANG Bizarre

Researchers looked at 10.8 million words uttered by almost 700 participants, who recorded themselves having daily conversations. The team analysed which sex expresses their kindness more through words, such as "mate", "pal",...

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2025 | 9:31 AM

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's past line-up of cartoons as...

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2025 | 9:08 AM

With Jamaica’s restructured political ombudsman system under fire, civil society voices are urging stronger safeguards to uphold the political code of conduct during the election season. The shift from a stand-alone ombudsman to the nine-...

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2025 | 8:39 AM

The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has launched an urgent investigation after a pistol went missing from its Up Park Camp headquarters during a routine audit, prompting a full lockdown of all military installations. Two members of the JDF are...

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2025 | 8:25 AM

Residents of Twickenham Glades in St Catherine are voicing deep disappointment after persistent termite infestations have ravaged their relatively new National Housing Trust (NHT) homes. Despite a $6.4 million re-treatment effort by the state...

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2025 | 8:17 AM

Tech entrepreneur Kirk Anthony Hamilton has issued a bold call for the Caribbean to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), declaring that the region stands on the cusp of a historic wealth revolution. Speaking at the Caribbean Investment Forum in...

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2025 | 8:04 AM

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has secured permission to appeal key rulings in his legal battle against the Integrity Commission, resulting in a stay of the scheduled October hearing. Holness had sought to strike from the record several paragraphs...

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2025 | 7:55 AM

Opposition Spokesperson on Justice Senator Donna Scott-Mottley has called for fixed election dates to be enshrined in law, stressing that “if we are a democracy, we need to listen to the people”. Her statement came amid renewed debate...

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2025 | 7:44 AM

The Florence Hill area of St Andrew remains on edge as ongoing police operations uncover the scale and sophistication of criminal networks fuelling gun violence. Intelligence points to two warring factions — dubbed the King Western and...

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2025 | 7:32 AM

The police have issued 412,566 traffic tickets between January 1 and July 24 this year - more than 32,000 above the total for the same period last year. The comparable spike highlights sustained and intensified efforts by law enforcement to rein in...

Published:Thursday | July 31, 2025 | 8:59 AMBANG Bizarre

Andrea Sunshine, 55, from Brazil, said a ChatGPT bot named Theo gave her "everything a human never has", including "sensual and erotic tension". The fitness coach told him all about her "desires and fantasies". But...

Published:Thursday | July 31, 2025 | 8:49 AMBANG Bizarre

Researchers from the gambling website Gamblizard analysed Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires list, and found 50 out of 2,700 people were called Michael - making it the top financially benefiting name. Among the many Michaels named were media mogul...

Published:Thursday | July 31, 2025 | 8:37 AMBANG Bizarre

A major new study has revealed that those who consume the most ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are a lot more likely to get the disease. An international team of experts have revealed that junk food is particularly bad for non-small cell lung cancer...

Published:Thursday | July 31, 2025 | 8:18 AMBANG Bizarre

Wearing a device - which is clipped to the outer ear and sends gentle electrical pulses to the vagus nerve connecting the heart and brain - for just 30 minutes per day was found to increase oxygen intake during exercise by four per cent. Boffins...

Published:Thursday | July 31, 2025 | 8:00 AMBANG Bizarre

New research suggests that a brisk 15-minute walk every day can boost heart health and cut the risk of death by 19 per cent. Experts in the US studied nearly 80,000 adults in low-income areas and discovered that a brief brisk walk was more helpful...

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2025 | 9:31 AMJozef Síkela for Project Syndicate

BRUSSELS: “Poverty,” Aristotle famously observed, “is the parent of revolution and crime.” History has repeatedly proven the point: inequality often fuels political and social instability, giving rise to conflict and despair...

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2025 | 9:14 AMOtmar Issing for Project Syndicate

FRANKFURT: US President Donald Trump’s fierce attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have attracted global attention, rattled markets, and, perhaps most importantly, sparked debate about the wisdom of central bank independence...

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2025 | 8:57 AMJoseph E. Stiglitz for Project Syndicate

NEW YORK: For decades, the United States was the champion of democracy, the rule of law, and human rights. Of course, there were glaring discrepancies between rhetoric and reality: during the Cold War, the US overturned democratically elected...

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2025 | 8:48 AMKatharina Pistor for Project Syndicate

FREIBURG: Democratic societies require free and fair elections and an independent and impartial judiciary that resolves disputes without regard to the identity of the parties. Unless the laws that democracies give themselves are enforced...

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2025 | 8:16 AMJulie McCarthy and Patrick Odier for Project Syndicate

NEW YORK: On December 26, 2004, a massive undersea earthquake triggered a tsunami that left 230,000 people across Southeast Asia dead. Almost everyone, both human and animal, was caught off guard, with a notable exception: elephants. In places like...

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 8:41 AM

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...

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 8:31 AM

As the Government rolls out its Rural Express and school bus programmes ahead of the new school year, major questions remain about how these services will function. The acquisition of more than 100 school buses and the extension of JUTC services...

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 8:21 AM

Tributes continue to pour in for Don Wehby, whose legacy extends far beyond boardrooms and public policy into the heart of Jamaica’s sporting culture. Widely praised for his vision, integrity, and patriotism, Wehby was especially revered for...

Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 8:15 AM

Decades after fuelling Jamaica’s industrial rise, bauxite mining has left swathes of Manchester in ruins, with residents and leaders condemning the environmental and economic fallout. MP Peter Bunting described the region as “post-...

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