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Jamaica’s double record breaker Kamari Kennedy was named winner of the Austin Sealy Award, presented to the most outstanding athlete, at the 52nd Carifta Games which concluded at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad on Monday. The 16-year-old smashed the records in the Under-17 boys’ shot put and discus throw events as Jamaica topped the medals table for the 39th straight time and 47th overall with a...

In Path of Exile 2 (POE 2), currency patches — updates that affect the game’s currency systems, including the value of various currency items — can have a significant impact on...

  When playing Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2), many players focus on the big and well-known types of PoE 2 currency like Chaos Orbs or Exalted Orbs. However, there are some lesser-known but incredibly...

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) -- Harvard sued US President Donald Trump's administration Monday in a sharp escalation of the fight between the prestigious university and the Republican, who has threatened its funding and sought to impose outside political supervision. Trump has sought to bring several prestigious universities to heel over claims they tolerated campus anti-Semitism, threatening their budgets, tax-exempt status and the enrolment of foreign students, but Harvard has...

UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Haiti, where rampant gang violence has surged in recent weeks, is approaching a "point of no return" leading to "total chaos", the United Nations (UN) special representative to the troubled Caribbean nation warned Monday. "As gang violence continues to spread to new areas of the country, Haitians experience growing levels of vulnerability and increasing scepticism about the ability of the state to respond to their needs,"...

ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — The police are probing the circumstances surrounding the death of a man along Municipal Boulevard, Greater Portmore in St Catherine on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as 28-year-old Gavin Blake of Roaring River, Steer Town, St Ann. According to police reports, about 10:15 pm, Blake was traversing the roadway when he was hit by a motorcar, which then fled the scene. The police were alerted,...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Matthew Samuda, has confirmed an unsanctioned disruption in the Maintenance Department at the National Water Commission (NWC) due to a post-reclassification exercise dispute. Samuda, who has responsibility for water, said the disruption is caused by a small group of employees who are upset about the band that they have been placed in following the Government-led...

WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — An elderly man perished in a blaze on Sunday night in Smithfield, Westmoreland. The man, who has been identified as Tajoe Robinson and is believed to be in his eighties, died after sustaining burns at his Bedward Lane home close to midnight. The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) said it was alerted to the fire at about 11:47 pm and responded with two units from the Savanna-La-Mar Station....

ST MARY, Jamaica — The police have identified the medical doctor of Nigerian descent who succumbed to injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle collision along the Golden Valley main road in Castleton, St Mary on Monday. He is 36-year-old Ubung Etti of Annotto Bay in the parish. Etti was a passenger in a blue Honda Fit motor car, with three other doctors aboard, travelling from Kingston towards Annotto Bay...

ST MARY, Jamaica — An early morning motor vehicle crash in Castleton, St Mary on Easter Monday has left a doctor dead and three others hospitalised in stable condition. Police reports indicate that four doctors, three of whom are from Nigeria, were travelling from Kingston to St Mary when the driver, a female attached to the Annotto Bay Hospital, lost control of the vehicle on reaching a section of the...