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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Former World Athletics Indoor Championships men’s 60m bronze medallist Ackeem Blake has been given a wild card entry to next month’s World Indoor Championships to be held in Kujawy Pomorze, Poland, March 20-22. Blake, who won the event at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on January 24 and the Millrose Games in New York on February 1, topped the points table with 20 points. In addition...

The local track and field fraternity has been plunged into mourning following the passing of hurdles coach Rahnsomn Edwards. Edwards died on Monday after a battle with illness. A highly respected coach at the youth level, Edwards has coached at a number of schools across Jamaica including Kingston College, Jamaica College, St Jago High, Vere Technical and Manchester High School.

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KINGSTON, Jamaica — When 42-year-old Kayanne Cole decided to go into farming, she did not know how to properly use a machete. She had never cleared land, never planted a crop and never imagined herself operating a farm. “I knew absolutely nothing about farming,” Cole said. Just over two years later, the financial advisor and mother of two is cultivating more than five acres of land in Murphy Hill, St...

NEW YORK (AFP), United States—Warner Bros. Discovery said Tuesday it has received a revised acquisition proposal from Paramount Skydance, even as the US media giant's board reaffirmed its support for a previously announced buyout deal with Netflix. "We received a revised (Paramount) proposal to acquire WBD, which we are reviewing in consultation with our financial and legal advisors," the WBD board said, adding it would update shareholders once the review...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP)—Britain's government committed Tuesday to releasing documents on ex-prince Andrew's past role as a trade envoy, after the Jeffrey Epstein scandal widened with the arrest of a veteran UK politician. The fallout from the publication last month by US authorities of millions of files related to late sex offender Epstein is reverberating around the British monarchy and political circles. It has piled pressure on Prime Minister Keir...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP)—Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday offered "full guarantees" for the safety of football fans at World Cup games in the violence-plagued city of Guadalajara. Sheinbaum insisted there was "no risk" to fans visiting the city in June for four matches, in remarks coming after a wave of violence sparked by the military's killing of drug lord Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera. The leader of the Jalisco New...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Local human rights organisation, Stand Up For Jamaica, is questioning the timing of the decision by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to accept the $28.6 million salary increase under the public sector compensation review when Jamaicans are buckling under new taxes and piecing their lives back together after Hurricane Melissa. “While we at Stand Up For Jamaica acknowledge that Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is technically within his...