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Toward the end of the ancient Indian epic the Mahabharata, Krishna’s Yadava clan self-destructs. Many dark omens presage their downfall: nature behaves erratically and pests multiply. Sin, deception, and violence proliferate, eroding trust and...

Hanover occupies four per cent, or 174.1 square miles, of Jamaica’s land mass, out of 4,240 square miles. It is 21.75 times the size of Kingston which covers an area of eight square miles. Hanover’s size is about the same as Kingston and St Andrew...

Guardsman Group Limited has launched its new Cyber Secure Operations Centre, SOC, in Kingston, which Group Director of Finance Neil Robinson says was outfitted at a cost of just under US$2 million. “We invested that amount in getting all of the...

Players swiping their way through more than 18,700 levels of Candy Crush Saga might be surprised to learn they’re solving puzzles designed with an assist from artificial intelligence. The app that helped make gamers out of anyone with a smartphone...

European Union regulators accused TikTok on Thursday of breaching digital content rules because it’s not being transparent enough about ads shown to users of the video-sharing app. TikTok’s ad repository isn’t up to the standards required by the...

Walmart, which became America’s largest retailer by making low prices a priority, has found itself in a place it’s rarely been, warning customers that prices will rise for goods ranging from bananas to car seats. Executives at the US$750 billion...

A new study commissioned by the Caribbean Poultry Association estimates that the sector contributes more than $300 billion to the Jamaica economy, and is in a position to satisfy nearly all of the demand for poultry meat locally. The socio-economic...

The federal agency tasked with protecting workers’ civil rights has moved to terminate a New York administrative judge who has resisted compliance with directives from the White House, including US President Donald Trump’s executive order decreeing...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is urging hotel operators to negotiate long-term contracts with farmers who supply them with food produce, saying it would give the farmers security to invest in their operations. “We have to get our hotels to...

Investors in Trinidad are months away from completing a new solar farm which, at 92 megawatts, is expected to become the largest such facility in the Caribbean. The Brechin Castle Solar Farm, which spans 238 hectares of land at Point Lisas, is a...

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) is advising pension fund managers to be cautious in their investment decisions so as to safeguard the retirement savings they administer. It comes against the backdrop of changing trade and immigration...