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December 13, 2025
GoodHeart | Christmas Joy for children: JYC, UWI Guild launches toy drive
The Jamaica Youth Chorale (JYC) and its senior ensemble, The Kingston Seventeen, have partnered with the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Guild External Affairs Committee (EAC) on a toy drive…
December 13, 2025
Tony Deyal | Raging, paging and ageing for Christmas
At 80-plus years, my memory is not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory is not as sharp as it used to be. Not remembering what I’m saying makes me, like Winston Churchill, the British statesman,…
December 13, 2025
Relax fiscal rules to tackle low literacy
THE EDITOR, Madam: In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, which has devastated so many communities across Jamaica, and as we rally to address this immediate crisis, we must also confront Jamaica’s…
December 13, 2025
by Yasmine Peru
Delightful KSAMC Christmas tree-lighting ceremony
It was a “wow” moment when at exactly 7:37 p.m. on Tuesday, Mayor of Kingston Councillor Andrew Swaby, flicked on the lights on the gigantic Christmas Tree inside the St William Grant Park in downtown…
December 13, 2025
by Erica Virtue
Shoreline shift
The future, long-term viability and resilience of government-operated facilities situated near the shoreline in Jamaica are now under scrutiny following severe devastation inflicted on several as a…
December 12, 2025
Bondholders give more time to Lee-Chin, eye year-end payment
Bondholders have approved resolutions granting Jamaican-Canadian businessman Michael Lee-Chin more time to service bonds, provided they receive a payment tranche by year’s end. JCSD Trustee Services…
December 12, 2025
New York is the 8th state found to have improperly issued commercial driver’s licences to immigrants
New York is the eighth state found to routinely issue commercial driver’s licences to immigrants that are valid long after they are no longer legally authorized to be in the country, US Transportation…
December 12, 2025
Hunger and makeshift shelters persist in north Caribbean nearly two months after Hurricane Melissa
PETIT GOÂVE, Haiti (AP) — Amizia Renotte sat on a broken piece of concrete and pointed to a large pile of dirt where her house once stood before the outer bands of Hurricane Melissa crumpled it as the…
December 12, 2025
Jamaicans warned against removing, selling or buying sand, gravel or other quarry materials displaced by Hurricane Melissa
The Mines and Geology Division is warning Jamaicans against removing quarry material such as sand, gravel, marl, silt, and stone that have been deposited in areas arising from Hurricane Melissa,…