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Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett (right) pauses for a photo opportunity ahead of the Harmonies of Hope relief concert with Dr Wes Hall, chancellor of the University of Toronto, and Dr Donette Chin-Loy Chang, chancellor of the Toronto Metropolitan Unive
December 22, 2025 by Sophia Findlay

JTB Canada’s ‘Harmonies of Hope’ concert raises CDN$3m for Melissa relief

In a display of global solidarity and national pride, the Jamaican diaspora in Canada has delivered one of the largest single contributions to the island’s Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts, raising…
Coffee beans that got damaged during the passage of Hurricane Melissa in Spring Hill, Portland.
December 22, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Battered beans

Making a case for more meaningful support from the Government toward one of the country’s long-standing industries, Donald Salmon, president of the Jamaica Coffee Growers Association, says coffee…
Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda.
December 22, 2025

Antigua PM tackles T&T counterpart over claim CARICOM has ‘lost its way’

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): The Antigua and Barbuda government yesterday disputed recent comments by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar that the 15-member regional integration…
Idris Elba poses for photographers at the red carpet for the film ‘A House of Dynamite’ during the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on September 2. He is the latest star to have his waxwork rolled out at the London Wax Museum, Madame Tussauds.
December 22, 2025

Madame Tussauds waxwork a ‘full circle moment’ for Idris Elba

Idris Elba is “honoured” to have a Madame Tussauds waxwork. The award-winning actor is the latest star to have the red carpet rolled out for him at the London wax museum. As of last Friday, he joins a…
Some of the relief supplies distributed by the Seprod Foundation, in partnership with Brunswick and Facey Commodity.
December 22, 2025

Brunswick partners with Seprod Foundation for ongoing Hurricane Melissa relief

In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, communities across St Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Crawford, Seaford Town, and surrounding parishes continue to face challenges related to food security. In response, the…
Donald Berry, coffee farmer in Spring Hill, Portland, checks for disease on coffee beans on his farm.
December 22, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

‘Coffee and Jamaica are close to my heart’

For nearly three decades, Donald Berry has put his energy and passion into producing Blue Mountain Coffee, and has had setbacks in the past. However, with the passage of Hurricane Melissa, he thought…
Prakazrel Pras Michel, a member of the 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees, accompanied by defence lawyer David Kenner (right), arrives at federal court April 3, 2023, in Washington.
December 22, 2025

Rapper Pras files motion to avoid jail

Pras Michel has sought bail while he appeals his international fraud convictions. The Fugees rapper was convicted of 10 charges, including acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, back…
This photo shows JPS crews carrying out restoration work in Montego Bay, St James.
December 22, 2025

Editorial | Energy reset now

It would be denying the obvious to claim Jamaica’s energy sector isn’t mired in controversy or lacking clarity in its direction. Last week, the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) advised peeved…
Letters
December 22, 2025

Unheeded ‘Gulf Lesson’

THE EDITOR, Madam: The US has been involved with Venezuela since oil was discovered there about a century ago, and, for a time, major American companies controlled 98 per cent of the production.…