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by Tyler Durden Saturday, Apr 10, 2021 - 02:05 PM One day after a powerful eruption at La Soufriere volcano in the eastern Caribbean flung a massive column of ash more than 33,000 feet high, geologists warn, perhaps, a much larger eruption could be nearing.  "The first one might not have necessarily been the biggest one. Its possible you could have explosions that could go higher and carry plumes higher in the atmosphere than this one did," geologist Richard Robertson of the University of the ...

Screenshot of TVJs broadcast of the Schools Challenge Quiz final between Wolmers Boys School and Ardenne High on Thursday. Ahead of the latest controversy to hit Television Jamaica’s (TVJ) long-running Schools Challenge Quiz (SCQ) in Thursday night’s final between Wolmers’ Boys’ School and Ardenne High, a group of 41 alumni associations preemptively wrote to the producers, recommending changes aimed at preventing such an outcome. Wolmers was initially announced winner by two points af...

Bunny Wailer (centre) poses for a photo with Chris Chin (second right), head of VP Records; Wailer’s manager, Maxine Stowe (second left); Abijah Asadenaki (left), Jah B’s eldest son, and reggae artiste, Blak Hero (right). The occasion was the signing of a licensing deal with VP Records for Bunny Wailer’s music. Carl Livingston, co-executor of Bunny Wailer’s estate, has stepped in, purportedly as a voice of reason, and made an appeal for calm among younger members of the Livingston clan,...

Barbados forward Nick Blackman in action during the Concacaf Nations League In recent weeks, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) and the Jamaica men’s senior national football team have decorated sports pages and conversations across the globe. The topic of discussion has been their major recruitment of European professional footballers for their 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup and 2022 FIFA World Cup assignments. Related Article Some popular names from the English Premier League have been mentioned...

[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Loop News reports that Saba is very close to achieving herd immunity against COVID-19. Officials on Saba have completed their second stage of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccinations. In total, 1,300 adults were vaccinated for the second time, while 42 adults received their first shot. The Public Entity said 33 people missed their appointments for a second jab of the Moderna vaccine. “We expect many of them to come for their ...

He said secondly he wanted to deliver two messages. He said while everyone felt Stadium is a song about a release from being cooped up at home, it actually spoke to Guyana’s racial climate. During his performance, he called for unity. “Stadium is a lifestyle, it is the one place you go where nobody don’t care who rich or who poor, nobody don’t know who is who,” he explained. He said the song was also about urging people to remember no matter what happens God is in charge. “Last yea...

The crime scene at the Public Sector Cooperative Credit Union at Caribbean Estate in Portmore, St Catherine on Tuesday. Gunmen shot dead a security guard during a daring daylight robbery at the Public Sector Cooperative Credit Union at Caribbean Estate in Portmore, St Catherine on Tuesday. The deceased guard is reportedly employed to the Hawkeye Security company.  Another security guard, who is also employed by Hawkeye Security company, has been hospitalised with a bullet wound to his right...

Former Jamaican prime ministers, PJ Patterson (left) and Bruce Golding, greet each other at the Good Samaritan Inn in Kingston on Wednesday when both men got vaccinated on the first day of the process nationally. (Photos: Marlon Reid) Former prime ministers Bruce Golding and PJ Patterson, as well as former Governor General, Sir Kenneth Hall, were among a number of healthcare and elderly individuals who received the COVID-19 vaccination jabs at a location in Kingston on Wednesday. They were vacc...

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted lives across the world, including here in Jamaica where the virus has infected more than 28,000 people killing more than 400. In

Gabriel told Loop News that based on the latest JTA survey, up to 40 per cent of public school students are still without an electronic device that would allow them to continue their education online. He acknowledged the broad based support of individuals, alumni, community groups, the ‘one device per child’ initiative of the Ministry of Education, private sector entities and others “who have come on board”  to make tablets and laptops available to the most needy students. “But we ...