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Jamaican ceramic ocean activist artist, Anna-K Cuffe, with her pieces at the second Art in Motion exhibition titled ‘Eco Art Expressions’ held at Withrow Common Gallery at Exhibition Place in Toronto.
December 9, 2025 by Neil Armstrong

Artist urges Canadians to support Hurricane Melissa relief efforts

TORONTO: Jamaican artist Anna-K Cuffe has urged an audience in Toronto, Canada, to donate to the Government’s Hurricane Melissa relief effort website, supportjamaica.gov.jm, to help rebuild…
This image released by Sesame Workshop shows muppet characters Elmo (left), Grover (second left), and Abby (right), from the ‘Sesame Street’ episode ‘Elmo Runs the Race’.
December 9, 2025

Sesame Street launches Season 56 on Netflix

NEW YORK (AP): New home. Some format changes. Same monsters. Sesame Street launches its 56th season on November 10 with NASCAR champion Bubba Wallace as a guest, a slightly tweaked format and a new…
Matching in sleek Brandon Blackwood, Olandria Carthen and the designer himself turn heads. Blackwood also gives a first look at an unreleased drawer-style opening bag.
December 9, 2025

Something Extra | Wednesday

The 2025 CFDA Awards lit up New York City at the American Museum of Natural History on Monday night, with Teyana Taylor commanding the stage as host. Before the trophies were handed out, the red…
A pedestrian looks at a flooded car in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in Petit-Goave, Haiti, Thursday, October, 2025.
December 9, 2025

Hurricane death toll rises to 43 in Haiti as aid pours in across the northern Caribbean

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government said Tuesday that the death toll from Hurricane Melissa rose to 43, with 13 others still missing. Crews were still trying to reach people in the…
Dr OmiSoore Dryden.
December 9, 2025

Jamaican-Canadian professor named Canada Research Chair

TORONTO: Dr OmiSoore Dryden, a full professor at the School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has been awarded a prestigious research professorship…
Despite facing significant damage to its own St Mary farm operations, the JP Farms team mobilised swiftly to deliver a truckload of food items – fresh bananas, plantains and assorted St Mary’s snacks – to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security Sa
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | JP Farms delivers food items to hurricane relief effort

December 9, 2025

Gabriel Agbo | You will laugh again

“And Sarah declared, God has brought me laughter! All who hear about this will laugh with me. For who would have dreamed that I would ever have a baby? Yet I have given Abraham a son in his old age!”…
Officers attached to the Guanaboa Vale Police Station in St Catherine clear debris from the roadway caused by Hurricane Melissa, during a workday in the community on November 3.
December 9, 2025

Police clear roadway leading to Guanaboa Vale Primary School in St Catherine

The police and community members have cleared debris from the roadway leading to the St Catherine-based Guanaboa Vale Primary School, caused by the passage of Hurricane Melissa on October 28. During…
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December 9, 2025

Dwight Fletcher | Jesus is the Lord of all

I HAVE been praying earnestly for Jamaica and for you over the past two weeks. The road to recovery may look long and hard, but my encouragement is that Jesus Christ is Lord over His creation.