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A$AP Rock and Rihanna pose for photographers upon departure from the premiere of the film ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 19.
December 9, 2025

A$AP Rocky sparks marriage speculation

A$AP Rocky has reignited speculation he and Rihanna have quietly married after referring to himself as her “husband” in a new interview. The 37-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, made…
Mark Myers, managing director of Restaurants of Jamaica.
December 9, 2025

ROJ organises first phase of national hurricane recovery initiative

In the aftermath of the catastrophic Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica continues to confront the widespread destruction that has displaced families, damaged critical infrastructure and left…
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett.
December 9, 2025 by Lester Hinds

Recovery, donation task forces set up to get tourism back on track after Melissa

Following the passage of Hurricane Melissa, which has caused widespread destruction across western Jamaica, high-level recovery and donation task forces for the tourism sector have been established by…
International recording artiste Sean Paul (centre), his sister-in-law Winsome Henriques (left), and a volunteer of the Sean Paul Foundation, Alana Thomas, get ready to package food items during their visit to the Food For The Poor Jamaica.
December 9, 2025 by Yasmine Peru

Sean Paul makes appeal on CNN; pledges US$50,000 for hurricane relief

Global dancehall superstar, Sean Paul, told The Gleaner in a recent interview that wherever he goes in the world, Jamaica is always on his mind. The patriotic Jamaican entertainer has been put to the…
Evlin Walsh
December 9, 2025

Evlin Walsh | The costs of cutting down trees

Trees are absolutely vital to all life on Earth. To be blunt, humans cannot survive without them: they are nature’s air purifiers, constantly cleaning our atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and…
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange has announced a five-concert fundraising series to raise funds in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025

‘I Love Jamaica’ concert for Kingston Nov 14

‘I Love Jamaica’, a five-concert fundraising series, which will be staged in cities across the world, gets under way on November 14, at the National Stadium Car Park in Kingston, beginning at 7:30…
Luis Sanchez (centre) sits with other Venezuelan migrants on a boat leaving Gardi Sugdub on Panama’s Caribbean coast.
December 9, 2025

Pía Riggirozzi | Toward COP30: climate change and forced migration in Latin America

Climate change not only destroys territories and ecosystems; it deepens historical inequalities and forces millions of people to move. In Latin America and the Caribbean, where structural poverty,…
An aerial view of Falmouth, Jamaica in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in October 2025.
December 9, 2025 by Ivis García

Four urgent lessons for Jamaica from Puerto Rico’s troubled hurricane recovery

Across Jamaica, streets are littered with torn-off roofs, splintered wood and other debris left in the wake of Hurricane Melissa. Downed power lines have left communities in the dark, and many flooded…
People gather, among them students, to walk on the street towards the northern city of Novi Sad, for a huge rally on November, marking the first anniversary of a train station disaster that killed 16 people, in Belgrade, Serbia.
December 9, 2025

Anniversary of deadly train station disaster marked with large rally

NOVI SAD (AP): Tens of thousands of people from all over Serbia commemorated the victims of a railway station disaster a year ago in the northern city of Novi Sad in a gathering on Saturday seen as a…