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A mother has claimed to have given birth to a record-breaking 10 babies. Gosiame Sithole explained how she was left in shock after delivering decuples in Pretoria, South Africa, last week. It would be the world's largest-ever live birth if it...

A bride died of a heart attack at her wedding in India - so the groom married his sister instead. The woman - who was named only as Surbhi - collapsed after suffering a heart attack while exchanging vows with husband-to-be Mangesh Kumar at the...

LAUSANNE – Our world is extraordinarily inefficient. We waste enormous quantities of energy, water, raw materials, and food. We even waste our waste and the precious resources it contains. We do so not necessarily because we lack ecological...

NEW YORK – Slight increases in the rate of inflation in the United States and Europe have triggered financial-market anxieties. Has US President Joe Biden’s administration risked overheating the economy with its $1.9 trillion rescue...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist’s pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, maybe worth so many more. Take a look at this week past’s lineup of cartoons as...

They say numbers never lie and at the rate the country’s children are getting pregnant, those numbers say Jamaica has a problem. The very real problem of a culture of silence and almost acceptance has seen the continued rise of sex...

At least one member of our elite intelligentsia is screaming at what could be construed as hypocrisy on the part of women leaders in the face of bourgeoning gender-based violence. Dr Maziki Thame has never been shy about speaking her mind on issues...

Whenever the Institute of Jamaica awards Musgrave medals, the moment must be cherished for these awardees represent the best Jamaica has to offer. And not just the best for an instant either. These awardees have proven over the course of their,...

Filmmaker, Cecile Emeke, turned her first short film ‘Ackee & Saltfish’ into an online web series. Around the same time, she published her independently produced documentary series ‘Strolling’ on YouTube. In so doing,...

With the future of the country’s national airline uncertain, Audrey Marks wanted to leave Air Jamaica after 10 years. But the proposed separation terms were unfavourable. Marks, in her 20s at the time, didn’t surrender. She hired an...

It isn’t often that flooding is a problem for the Western end of the island even though there are a number of rivers that have been taken over by the various developments. That does, however, mean, that when there is, oh boy! An almost...

Of course, everybody who has come of age on the island knows the importance of 1962 to Jamaica, but the instance of independence in August 1962 began long before that. The Union Jack being brought down in favour of the hoisting of the Black, Green...