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December 9, 2025
Parents disappointed after UK Home Office reportedly rejects visa for 8-y-o daughter impacted by Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica
The UK Guardian is reporting that a Jamaican woman and her British husband have been left disappointed after the Home Office rejected a visa application for their eight-year-old daughter. They had…
December 9, 2025
Brazilian police crack down on US$4.8b tax-evasion and money-laundering scheme
Brazilian police launched a police operation on Thursday to dismantle a major tax-evasion and money-laundering scheme in the fuel sector. The group under investigation is Brazil’s largest tax debtor,…
December 9, 2025
Belize gov’t assures public of safe drinking water
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Ministry of Health and Wellness in Belize on Thursday sought to assure the public that the water supply in the country is safe for drinking, even as it acknowledged recent…
December 9, 2025
Dom Rep positions for tourists rerouted from Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
The Dominican Republic has authorised the arrival of 800 new flights to accommodate a surge in tourists who were originally planning to vacation in Jamaica and other nearby islands, but were rerouted…
December 9, 2025
by Paul H. Williams
Maroons abroad leading Portland’s Rio Grande Valley recovery efforts
Hurricane Melissa ripped through western Jamaica, devastating Cornwall county and parts of Manchester and St Elizabeth. Other parishes, too, felt the wrath of the Category 5 storm. In the east,…
December 9, 2025
Rohde and Peña | AI wants our water
AI is often portrayed as the harbinger of a prosperous, more efficient future. But the machines driving this revolution depend on a resource far older – and far more contested – than data or…
December 9, 2025
UK government welcomes sharp fall in net migration but says more needs to be done
LONDON (AP) — The British government welcomed the news Thursday that net migration in the United Kingdom, the difference between those moving to the country long-term and those leaving, fell by more…
December 9, 2025
by Omar Tomlinson
The many lives of Sheldon Shepherd
Sheldon Shepherd’s life these days demands serious multitasking. With his debut album and a lead role in the hotly anticipated British television miniseries The Inheritance both on the way next year,…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Many rivers to cross
On Monday, the world lost another musical legend as Jimmy Cliff passed away at the age of 81. Although, as James Chambers, he was born in Adelphi, a hillside community in Somerton, near Montego Bay,…