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December 9, 2025
Tribute: In the footsteps of the brave
Each year, as the third Monday in October arrives, Jamaica pauses not merely for a holiday, but for a profound act of remembrance. National Heroes’ Day, officially observed since 1969, honours those…
December 9, 2025
You are just an ‘instrument’
Each of us plays a note in the grand symphony of life. Sometimes our role brings joy, sometimes lessonsm yet each note has meaning in the larger design. We often believe we are the ones composing the…
December 9, 2025
Ronald Sanders | A new world order — or formal admission of the old?
The world has long spoken of a “rules-based order” as though the law itself held dominion over power. Yet, behind the diplomatic courtesies and the fine print of charters, it was power that wrote the…
December 9, 2025
Tony Deyal | Calypso festival, light and spirit
There was a young woman called Starkie. Who had an affair with a darky. The result of her sins. Was quadruplets, not twins One black and one white and two khaki.
December 9, 2025
Curtis Ward | Implications of US military operations in the southern Caribbean
At the time of writing this article, US military strikes blew up five small boats in the southern Caribbean Sea between Venezuela and Trinidad and killed nearly 30 people. No evidence has been offered…
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | Do you know that politician?
Unless he was socially premature and thus not fully formed at the beginning, just about every politician is made with two essential major parts. The first is the need to rev the ego while on…
December 9, 2025
Nestlé cuts 16,000 jobs globally as part of intensifying cost-cutting campaign
Nestlé is cutting 16,000 jobs globally as the Swiss food giant cuts costs as part of its efforts to revive its financial performance. Nestlé, which makes Nescafé, KitKats, pet foods and many other…
December 9, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
Defence seeks dismissal of Reid trial, citing fatal flaw
Senior Parish Judge Sanchia Burrell is expected to deliver a ruling today on an application by the defence seeking to have the fraud trial involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid thrown out,…
December 9, 2025
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The existence of hunger is a political choice
In 2024, the wealthiest nations helped drive the largest surge in military spending since the end of the Cold War, reaching US$2.7 trillion that year. Yet, they failed to deliver on their own…