A Jamaican-built platform that aims to give small businesses a single hub for marketing, sales and customer management is gaining traction across the Caribbean and beyond. SnapTap, an AI-powered business platform developed by Ocho Rios entrepreneur Kingsley Jair Harrison, combines networking, marketing, sales, payment collection and customer management tools in one dashboard.

WESTERN BUREAU: Amid backlash over the involvement of the police in the recent demolition exercise at Coopers Pen in Trelawny, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has indicated that the Government is to develop policy guidance to govern how members of the security forces operate when called on to support court-ordered evictions and demolitions.

Jamaicans at home and in the diaspora woke Friday morning to news that Dervan Malcolm, the popular host of The Jamaican Diaspora Live Online, heard Saturdays on Power 106 FM, had died. The Jamaican Diaspora Live Online gave a voice not only to Jamaicans doing well in the diaspora, but also connected the Jamaican community abroad to its homeland. It also highlighted Jamaican businesses, whether start-up or established, while spotlighting members of the diaspora who had made, or were making, their mark on the societies of their adopted countries.

The Government is investing $50 million in healthcare research while spending an average of $500 million annually to train healthcare workers in areas where there are critical shortages, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has said. Tufton made the disclosure yesterday as 138 healthcare workers in training were presented with scholarships named in honour of longtime permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health, Dr Barry Wint, during a ceremony at the S Hotel in New Kingston.

WESTERN BUREAU: During a visit yesterday to Coopers Pen in Trelawny, where 20 houses were flattened during a demolition exercise on August 11, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness said he is targeting December for the start of a relocation programme for some 99 eligible residents.

EU gas storage is at 64% capacity as the Iran war and anti-Russian sanctions squeeze LNG supplies Read Full Article at RT.com

The Yekaterinburg event in September will gather 10,000 young leaders from 191 countries for debate, exchange and joint projects. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large says any wider US nuclear mission in Europe would force a military-technical response Read Full Article at RT.com

“This is a good day. We have now reached the point where this is in the hands of the nation. Either we enter these negotiations, seek a good agreement and then see what happens, or we put the discussion about the European Union aside, at least for the time being.

Warsaw should cease providing weapons to Kiev for free as long it honors Nazi collaborators, Polish MEP Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik has said Read Full Article at RT.com

The arson attack happened on March 23 when four ambulances from Hatzola, a volunteer-led ambulance service operating in the Golders Green area of north London, were set on fire.

“Iceland is at its most beautiful today,” economist and CEO Halldór Benjamín Þorbergsson told mbl.is outside Hagaskóli just moments ago.

B.C. Hydro says it's monitoring for the reappearance of a mysterious island first spotted by boaters 100 kilometres from the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in northeastern B.C.

Edinburgh has been prioritizing homeless migrants for social housing, while putting requests from Scots on hold, the Telegraph has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has acknowledged that a drone depot was in a residential area after a Russian strike caused civilian deaths Read Full Article at RT.com

Six months into the war, Tehran has survived decapitation strikes, sanctions and economic pressure while Washington searches for an exit Read Full Article at RT.com

[Daba Finance] Moody's kept Cameroon's Caa1 credit rating and stable outlook unchanged after a periodic review, while warning that weak liquidity, payment arrears and tighter regional financing conditions remain key risks. The review followed an August 13 committee meeting and was completed on August 21.

[Daba Finance] Outstanding Treasury securities in the 6-nation CEMAC region rose to XOF 10.56 trillion at the end of July, up 3.34% from XOF 10.22 trillion in June, according to the Bank of Central African States. The increase lifted the market debt ratio to 13.3% of regional GDP from 12.9% a month earlier and 12% at the end of 2025.