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Reparations petition delivered but King Charles not on hand to receive it himself

  Jamaica took its campaign for reparations for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade directly to...

7:29 pm, Tue September 8, 2026
INDECOM probing 207 fatal police shootings so far this year

  By Clinton McGregor      The Independent Commission of Investiga...

7:23 pm, Tue September 8, 2026
Mother sentenced to prison for failing to report sexual abuse of daughter

  A 59-year-old woman was on Monday sentenced in the St. Catherine Parish Court to t...

7:20 pm, Tue September 8, 2026
UK government rejects Jamaica's push for slavery reparations

  The United Kingdom's government has reiterated that it will not pay reparations fo...

6:56 pm, Tue September 8, 2026
Reconstruction oversight committee, JAMRROC, launched

  By Nakinskie Robinson       The panel expected to keep a cl...

4:48 pm, Tue September 8, 2026
Questions raised over stalled Bellevue Hospital expansion

  By Kimone Witter       Plans for the expansion of the Belle...

4:38 pm, Tue September 8, 2026
Education Ministry says nearly all schools reopened on Monday

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