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Keliesha Fearon, a resident of St Elizabeth and a JWN Foundation volunteer, prepares paint to help with the rebuilding efforts.
December 26, 2025

‘I won’t have to worry anymore’

For 33-year-old Nichola Smith, the approach of Hurricane Melissa brought days of fear and uncertainty. Living in Balaclava, St Elizabeth, Smith, who shares her home with five members of her household,…
Miss Global Jamaica 2025 Keri-Ann Greenwood and Jermane Blair, national director of the local franchise, both shared lens at the official launch of the 2026 local competition.
December 26, 2025 by O’brian Wynter

The road to Miss Global Jamaica 2026 begins

The road to crowning Jamaica’s next global queen, following reigning representative Keri-Ann Greenwood’s first-runner-up finish at the 2025 Miss Global competition, officially began on December 21…
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December 26, 2025

Peter Espeut | Sweetheart deals and bastard capitalism

I read with great interest the article in The Gleaner of Monday, December 22, by Winsome Callum, director of corporate communications at the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) as she tried to…
Mortimer
December 26, 2025 by Nicola Cunningham

5 Questions With Mortimer

It was a day of food, fun, fashion, and plenty of gift ideas at Sunday’s Kingston Creative Art Walk Festival Gran’ Market edition, the final staging of the year. Booth holders and artisans turned out…
Neytiri, played by Zoe Saldana, in a scene from ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’.
December 26, 2025 by Damian Levy

‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ – A ruthless return to Pandora

As the 2009 film Avatar concluded, there was a distinct sense of finality. The heroes had won the day, and a new era had dawned over the world of Pandora. It certainly made the 13 year-wait for its…
The 2025 New Year’s Eve numerals are displayed in Times Square in New York.
December 26, 2025

Kristen Gyles | Starting at 2:41 on a Friday afternoon

Welcome to the first day of ‘Twixmas’. ‘Twixmas’ is a relatively new term to describe the transitional period betwixt Christmas and the New Year. It’s that awkward period where people don’t quite…
Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr (second left) shakes hands with farm worker Zeneice Nixon at a send-off ceremony for 95 workers who departed the island for Toronto, Canada, last April under the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers
December 26, 2025

Charles Jr, Coore-Lobban firm on safety for farm workers

The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme (SAWP) between Canada and Jamaica is being hailed as one of the most successful and longest-running labour mobility programmes in the world. Known more…
Murray and Ashley McKenzie, school groundsman and janitor, watch closely as Don Jorgensen, rapid response team leader for Global Medic, works on the UV water filter.
December 26, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

Blauwearie gets drinkable water from Global Medic

Western Bureau: For years, students at Blauwearie Primary and Infant School relied on water from a nearby stream, rain catchment and bottled supplies, never fully certain if the water they had access…
Marsha Coore-Lobban, Jamaica’s high commissioner to Canada.
December 26, 2025 by Karen Madden

Jamaican diplomats in Canada working to meet diaspora demands

Just over two years since her Ottawa posting, Jamaica’s High Commissioner to Canada Marsha Coore-Lobban is hailing an improvement in consular services as being among her accomplishments, but admits to…