Celine Dion makes musical comeback at Paris Olympics with Eiffel Tower serenade
PARIS (AP) — Celine Dion made a triumphant return Friday with a very public performance: closing out the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony from the Eiffel Tower. Nearly two years after revealing her stiff person...
Jamaica on Olympics display
PARIS, France: Chef de Mission for Jamaicas team to the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, Ian Kelly, has promised that the world will be enthralled by the islands flair during todays opening ceremony. The Olympics officially opens today, starting..
Massive spike in estimated cost of Beryl impact on farming sector
Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining Minister Floyd Green is now estimating the damage sustained by farmers from Hurricane Beryl at $6.5 billion, up from the $5.7 billion announced in Parliament last week Tuesday. Speaking at a Hi-Pro Beryl relief...
An ode to a legend: From Beijing to Paris, Fraser-Pryce's exemplary career in her final Olympic bow
Sixteen World Championships medals, eight Olympic Games medals, seven national titles, five Sportswoman of the Year awards, one Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year award and the Order of Jamaica tells the riveting story of Jamaican sprint legend...
FTC to do market survey on taxi apps
The Fair Trading Commission, FTC, plans to conduct a market survey to assess the adequacy of current regulations governing taxi apps. This move is in response to the emergence of ridesharing services like Uber, InDrive, and 876 On The Go, which...
5 Questions with … 450
Tristen Escoffery, better known as 450, entered the dancehall scene in 2019 with his début track, Bines A Fly, a track which he recorded for Yong X Ray Entertainment. Not only was the song reasonably well received, 450 credits this single with...
Editorial | Keep schools open
A happy development is that both Fayval Williams, the education minister, and Nigel Clarke, at finance, have listed repairing schools among the priorities in the Governments post-Beryl recovery efforts. What we have not heard is where educational...
Letter of the Day | Critical to transform education system
THE EDITOR, Madam: As a teacher, one who is married to a teacher and a product of Jamaicas education system, when I look at the crumbling façades of Jamaicas schools, I am struck by the haunting feeling that they are unprepared to face the...
Shanique Sinclair's Book Fairy Festival brings magic of books to life
Shanique Sinclair is ‘Shanz the Book Fairy, spreading her long-harboured love of literature to her Instagram followers and members of her Friday Night Bookish Lyme Book Club. Unsatisfied with the existing reading culture in Jamaica, the...
Arson attacks paralyse French high-speed rail network hours before start of Olympics
PARIS (AP) — France's high-speed rail network was hit Friday with widespread and "criminal" acts of vandalism including arson attacks, paralysing travel to Paris from across the rest of France and Europe only hours before the...