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December 9, 2025
Entries open for EcoSpark innovation challenge for schools
The JPS Foundation and the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) have announced their collaboration this year, to stage the second annual Innovation Challenge for students islandwide. The…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | A strategy for growth
The narrative is regularly recited and celebrated. Since the 2010s, Jamaica has undergone a remarkable fiscal transformation. Debt has fallen from unsustainable heights, inflation has been tamed, and…
December 9, 2025
by Andre Williams
A war on drugs
“Cocaine is a major source of funding for the gangs in Jamaica.” That was the blunt assessment from a US administration official during a September 19 high-level briefing last Friday in Kansas City,…
December 9, 2025
by Erica Virtue
INTERDICTED
A junior resident at May Pen Hospital who contested the September 3 general election as a People’s National Party (PNP) candidate is scheduled to face disciplinary proceedings on Monday. The Southern…
December 9, 2025
by Livern Barrett
Keith Clarke’s family sues Gov’t
More than 15 years after businessman Keith Clarke was fatally shot during a joint police-military operation, his family has filed a lawsuit alleging that security forces stormed the wrong house during…
December 9, 2025
by Jovan Johnson
Costly lift-off
Jamaica’s three domestic aerodromes – Negril, Ken Jones, and Tinson Pen – together with Ian Fleming International Airport (IFIA), have accumulated nearly J$2 billion in maintenance, security, and…
December 9, 2025
Man admits in TV interview to killing and burying his parents
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A man admitted during a television interview to killing his parents and burying them in the backyard of their upstate New York home eight years ago, then was arrested as he left…
December 9, 2025
St Catherine man accused of land fraud granted $500,000 bail
A St Catherine man accused of selling land he does not own and collecting $1.5 million from a woman was today granted $500,000 bail with surety in the parish court. Dedrick Smith, 47, a driver of…
December 9, 2025
Stand Up For Jamaica alarmed by police fatal shootings, adds to calls for body cameras
Human rights group Stand Up For Jamaica says it is deeply alarmed at the sharp rise in police-involved fatalities and is adding its voice to calls for the use of body-worn cameras. The organisation…