CROSS KEYS, Jamaica (AP) — Alance Wisdom got inside her home just in time to watch the ceiling of her front room collapse. As the
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IMF taps Jamaica finance minister for deputy role
KINGSTON – The International Monetary Fund on Monday named Jamaican Finance Minister Nigel Clarke to a top post at the agency, after the official spearheaded
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Jamaica declares southern state of emergency after Sunday night killings
KINGSTON — Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness declared a state of emergency in the Caribbean nation’s southern Clarendon parish after eight people were killed in
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A small town on a small island celebrates Kamala Harris’ meteoric rise
BROWN’S TOWN, Jamaica — Three and a half years ago, Sherman Harris gathered together a clutch of family and friends at his home on a hilltop
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Jamaican police arrest 6 suspects in mass shooting that killed 8 and injured 11
KINGSTON (AP) — Jamaican police have arrested at least six suspects in connection with a mass shooting in which eight people were recently killed in
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4 Jamaicans charged with smuggling nearly 4,000 pounds of marijuana
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging four Jamaican men with smuggling nearly 4,000 pounds of marijuana in Caribbean waters.
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Two Jamaican sprinters are no-shows and won’t race for individual medals at Olympics
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Two Jamaican sprinters pulled out of their women’s races this weekend and will not compete for individual medals at the Paris Games.
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Caribbean braces for economic punch after season’s deadly first hurricane
KINGSTON — Leaders across the Caribbean were still tallying the financial toll wrought by the earliest Atlantic storm on record to intensify to the maximum
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Officials plead for $9 million in aid weeks after Hurricane Beryl devastated the southeast Caribbean
ST. GEORGE’S (AP) — People in the southeast Caribbean urgently need food, water and shelter nearly two weeks after Hurricane Beryl crushed the region as a Category
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Hurricane Beryl destroys crops in Jamaica, leaves islanders facing food shortages
KINGSTON (AP) — Jamaicans will contend with food shortages in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, which is estimated to have destroyed over $6.4 million in food
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