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Mashup Score: 7Jamaica urged to develop walkable cities - 3 month(s) ago
Former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia Enrique Peñalosa is urging the Jamaican government to give greater consideration to utilising a people-centred approach when urbanising cities going forward. Peñalosa, during his keynote address at the 2024 staging…
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Mashup Score: 8Former Jamaican athletes get reallocated Olympic medals at Paris arising from disqualifications - 5 month(s) ago
Olympians Beverly McDonald, Chelsea Hammond Ross and Kaliese Spencer-Carter were officially awarded their reallocated Olympic medals at a ceremony held today at Champions Park at Trocadero Gardens in Paris, France. France is hosting the 2024…
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Mashup Score: 1Ten days departmental leave not sufficient - 6 month(s) ago
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing with reference to an an article I saw on the Internet published on January 3, by the Ministry of Finance and The Public Service titled, “Amendment to staff order – leave provisions chapter 7”, which said that an…
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Mashup Score: 29Carolyn Cooper | Medical doctors afraid of speaking out - 6 month(s) ago
Several doctors contacted me and my sister Donnette last week in response to my column, “ICU-B at the UHWI needs more intensive care.” They all told the same disturbing story. Jamaica’s public health system is in a terrible condition and there’s…
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Mashup Score: 2Patricia Green | Kingston developments or glorified favelas? - 6 month(s) ago
“…Today, close to 80 per cent of Singapore’s residents live in public housing, and about 90 per cent of the units are owned on a 99-year lease…” states the May 29 New York Times. In the 1960s, Singapore was one of the poorest nations where three…
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Mashup Score: 0NHT accepting applications for contribution amnesty programme - 6 month(s) ago
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and registered charitable institutions facing financial hardships are being urged to submit applications under the National Housing Trust (NHT) Contribution Amnesty Programme. The initiative aims to…
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Mashup Score: 5UWI mourns death of one of its first students - 9 month(s) ago
The University of the West Indies community is mourning the loss of one of its first students, Dame Dr Ruby Lake Richards who died earlier this week at age 101. Dame Ruby was one of two remaining members of the first cohort of 33 medical students…
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Mashup Score: 12Julian Robinson | Addressing the transportation woes - 9 month(s) ago
Over the last 20 years, Jamaica has had a concerning trend of diminishing productivity. Declines in key productivity measures have positioned the nation at the bottom of Caribbean labour productivity rankings. Specifically, annual decreases of 0.6…
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Mashup Score: 121Thanks, Shelly-Ann - 10 month(s) ago
The announcement of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s retirement plans has landed in Jamaica with a muted thud. People seem not to want to deal with the end to a glorious career which still has one more big assignment ahead. The reluctance is perhaps…
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Mashup Score: 3Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | Tackling Jamaica’s growing plastic problem - 11 month(s) ago
At a recent clean-up of Refuge Cay in Kingston Harbour, the depth of Jamaica’s plastic problem was painfully evident. Thick layers of plastic were entangled amidst the mangrove roots and floated in the nearby coastal waters. Despite many efforts…
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RT @dmccaulay: 'Wider roadways not a solution to traffic congestion..' https://t.co/XeCpHKjcsg