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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.
December 9, 2025

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.
December 9, 2025

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.
December 9, 2025 by Robert Bailey

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.
December 9, 2025

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
December 9, 2025

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.
December 9, 2025 by Corey Robinson

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…
December 9, 2025

Apprentice jockey charged in armed robbery of Portmore business

The police have have charged a 21-year-old apprentice jockey in connection with the armed robbery of a business establishment in Newlands, Portmore, last month. He is Delroy Eric Walker, a…
President of the Western Jamaica Media Association, Janet Silvera (centre) in conversation with her vice president, Garwin Davis (right) and veteran journalist Adrian Frater while at work at the newly installed media centre at S Hotel Montego Bay.
December 9, 2025

MoBay hotel opens media base in MoBay to support journalists after Hurricane Melissa

The S Hotel in Montego Bay has converted its entertainment lounge into a media base to assist journalists in western Jamaica struggling with communication and connectivity issues following the passage…
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks during a news conference in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
December 9, 2025

Chasm of star-spangled bewilderment

THE EDITOR, Madam: Whether we like it or not, Washington, DC, is the epicentre of politics for the rest of the world, with so much hypocrisy, utter confusion and vainglorious rhetoric emanating from…