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Pharmacologist and Dental Surgeon, Dr. Lincoln Edwards, is the new president-elect of Northern Caribbean University (NCU). Dr. Edward was elected yesterday, during a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Seventh-day Adventist-owned institution at the church’s headquarters in Mandeville, Jamaica. Dr. Edwards, who is a native of Jamaica and graduate of the University of the West Indies and Loma Linda University has served as an assistant professor in the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry at Loma Linda University, and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, School of Dentistry in Houston. He will replace Dr. Trevor Gardner who is retiring at the end of August 2016.

NCU Elects US-based Dental Surgeon as President

Pharmacologist and Dental Surgeon, Dr. Lincoln Edwards, is the new president-elect of Northern Caribbean University (NCU). Dr. Edward was elected yesterday, during a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Seventh-day Adventist-owned institution at the church’s headquarters in Mandeville, Jamaica. Dr. Edwards, who is a native of Jamaica and graduate of the University of the West…

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Adventist Church Highlights Declining Religious Freedom at Major Conference

As religious freedom deteriorates around the world, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has brought together a broad range of advocacy organizations and public leaders to consider ways to drive the issue higher on the public agenda. The 2016 International Religious Liberty Summit, held at the Newseum’s Religious Freedom Center in downtown Washington, focused on what has…

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IADPA Opens Its First Deli and Bookstore in Jamaica

The Inter-American Division Publishing Association (IADPA), opened its first ever Two-in-One Deli and Bookstore in Jamaica at the headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist’s central region located at 58 Brunswick Avenue Spanish Town, St Catherine.

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NCU-BASED GUARDANA 6TH IN THE WORLD IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MODEL COMPETITION

Mandeville, Manchester — The Northern Caribbean University (NCU)- based team Guardana has this year placed sixth in the world when they presented at the International Business Model Competition, held in Washington DC, in the United States, on April 29 and 30. In 2014, during the outbreak of the chikungunya virus carried by the Aedes aegypti…

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Joel Haye, former WJC Director, is the new Pastor of the NCU Church

Pastor Joel Haye, former director of West Jamaica Conference was installed as the pastor of the Northern Caribbean University Church on Sabbath afternoon of May 14, 2016.

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How a Brazilian Pastor Grew His Audience From 60 People to 3,000

This is the story of how Marcelo Flordos Santos, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor in northeast Brazil, received two talents and then gained 100 more through the reach of the Internet. Flor, a slight man with graying hair, looked at the several dozen people who were showing up at his evangelistic meetings five years ago and determined…

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‘The key to longevity is to plant food properly’

A United States-based soil nutritionist who travelled to Jamaica last month to speak at a religious conference in Robin’s Bay, St Mary, has claimed that the prevalence of serious medical conditions such as cancer and diabetes can be reduced, simply by improving the way food is planted, grown, and processed. Speaking on the second day…

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Digging for gold…Adventists seek to increase profits for local farmers

ROBIN’S BAY, St Mary: radical health initiative could help generate employment and at least $1 million per year for farmers throughout St Mary and Portland, according to President of the North East Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Arlington Woodburn. In an effort to promote his organisation’s ‘Save Our Schools Through Industries and Commitments’ (SOSTIC) project,…

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