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United Nations Development Resident Representative to Jamaica, Dr Kishan Khoday surveys the damage done in Black River, St Elizabeth in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.
08 Nov, 2025 0

Turn crisis into opportunity

The World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are urging Jamaica to turn the devastation from Hurricane Melissa into an opportunity to “reimagine” its reconstruction and…
City of Belém in Pará, which is hosting COP30 Amazonia.
08 Nov, 2025 0

Call of Belém for the climate urges countries to respond urgently to the global crisis

Brazil’s President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, issued a call for urgent action addressed to all countries, aimed at giving renewed momentum to the global fight against climate change. The call…
08 Nov, 2025 0

Greta Merrill | The world unites in the face of crisis

In these trying times for the environmental movement, it can sometimes feel impossible to find the (solar-powered) light. In September the International Day of Preservation of the Ozone Layer (or…
Members of Parliament before being swore at the swearing-in ceremony for members of the upper and lower houses of Parliament held on September 18, 2025 in Gordon House.
08 Nov, 2025 0

Lloyd Barnett | Identification and status of the head of state

In the previous articles in this series, I expressed the opinion that at present it appears that Jamaica will change from a monarchical form of Constitution to a republican form but that the…
A man examines sections of one of the rooftops at St Elizabeth Technical High School destroyed by Hurricane Melissa.
08 Nov, 2025 0

Ronald Thwaites | Choices have consequences

The Minister is right. Each local school board has the practical and legal responsibility to determine how and when to resume school after Melissa.The role of government is to harvest the most urgent…

Tivoli Gardens High School coach, Christopher Nicholas.
08 Nov, 2025 0

DIVIDED WE STAND

A NUMBER of ISSA/WATA Manning Cup coaches have expressed mixed views on whether the Corporate Area schoolboy football competition should resume following the devastating passage of Category 5…
Reggae Boyz head coach Steve McClaren announced a 26-man squad on November 8, 2025.
08 Nov, 2025 0

Rico Henry earns first Reggae Boyz call-up as McClaren names 26-man squad for final World Cup qualifiers

Rico Henry, defender for English football club Brentford, has earned his first call-up to the Reggae Boyz as preparations intensify for Jamaica’s final two matches in the Concacaf World Cup…
Alsion Wilson
08 Nov, 2025 0

Alsion Roach-Wilson, who rose from homelessness to lead Jamaica’s diplomatic mission in New York, has died

Jamaica’s diplomatic community is mourning the passing of Alsion Roach-Wilson, Consul General to New York, who died on Saturday at her home. She had been battling breast cancer Foreign Affairs…

Reverend Winston Pecco, chairman of Edwin Allen High School in Clarendon, explaining the extent of the damage caused by Hurricane Melissa at the institution.
08 Nov, 2025 0

Edwin Allen and Clarendon NW’s fight to recovery

Before Hurricane Melissa made landfall, administrators at Edwin Allen High School decided to send home some 120 students who boarded on campus. Now, in the aftermath of the Category Five storm – which…