SYDNEY, Australia — Jamaica secured their first-ever World Cup football point when they held France, one of the pre-tournament favourites, to a 0-0 draw in their opening Group F match in the Sydney…
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Unjust cost of HIV care
A UNAIDS official is calling for a review of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement, labelling it an unjust health practice. According to Dr Richard Amenyah,…
Chaos at funeral of murdered 8-year-old
PANDEMONIUM descended on the funeral of eight-year-old Danielle Rowe on Sunday as her relatives fumed over alleged interference in the programme by non-family members. Rowe was the little girl who was abducted from…
The Mouth And Marriage…Three Fire Starters
I miss those bitter sweet days when we would start fires with wood from the bush to roast breadfruit. That smell never left me. The catch was to keep the fire going once…
Female teachers not spared by menacing boys
Female teachers are not spared. They are often subjected to inappropriate, perverse behaviour and assault from underage male students, especially in all-boys schools, some educators have said. And attorneys-at-law have indicated that youngsters…
SEX OFFENCE CRISIS
Bizarre sex offence cases occurring in certain communities and which are now before the Trelawny Circuit Court have triggered a call from a member of the Jamaican Bar for those communities to be…
Adekeye Adebajo | France: the myth of liberté, egalité and fraternité
France often likes to pride itself as the heir of progressive regicidal revolutionaries, as enshrined in its national motto: liberté, égalité and fraternité (liberty, equality and fraternity). The recent riots in the country…
Gordon Robinson | A Billy Bunter saga
During my brief hiatus from boring you to tears I was forcibly reminded that, as a child, I was a UK subject. I read the best UK literature including Dickens, Tennyson, Austen, Burns…
WORLD CUP GOAL
Jamaica’s national senior women’s football team, the Reggae Girlz, will face France in their 2023 FIFA World Cup group opener at 5:00 am Sunday local time with the weight of the nation’s hopes…