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December 9, 2025
Netflix to acquire Warner Bros studio and streaming business for US$72b
Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros Discovery, the legacy Hollywood giant behind Harry Potter and Friends, to buy its studio and streaming business for US$72 billion.
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | A very private public service
So, after the fact, Jamaica learned that Government decided to take US$150 MILLION of our money out of the Consolidated Fund to “lend” to JPS. Let’s try to contextualize. First and foremost this…
December 9, 2025
Chris Martin recovering after onstage fall, withdraws from Treasure Beach Festival
Reggae/dancehall artiste Christopher Martin has pulled out of Sunday’s Treasure Beach Food, Rum and Reggae Benefit Festival on medical advice, following an onstage incident in Sierra Leone on November…
December 9, 2025
Ma and Kidney | Renminbi internationalisation closing the climate finance gap
As the United States renounces its climate commitments, a chain reaction of wavering pledges and scaled-back investments by other donors and multilateral institutions has followed. This trend raises…
December 9, 2025
GoodHeart | Applications open for Creative Resilience Grant
Kingston Creative, in partnership with the American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ), The Miami Foundation, and generous individual donors, is opening applications for the Creative Resilience Grant, an…
December 9, 2025
St Elizabeth police probe shooting death of man in Treasure Beach
Police in St Elizabeth are investigating the fatal shooting of a man in Treasure Beach early Thursday morning. The deceased has been identified as Mazola WA Mwashighadi. Reports are that about 12:20…
December 9, 2025
Russian Embassy organises Geographical Dictation
On November 30, the Russian-Jamaican Cultural Exchange Club “Russkiy na Jamaica” hosted in Kingston Geographical Dictation for the first time, an international educational event under the auspices of…
December 9, 2025
Sean Major-Campbell | Media for the protection of human rights, justice, and truth
THE PLANNING of the annual human rights service held at Christ Church Vineyard Town met with challenges in the aftermath of the extreme monster Hurricane Melissa. We realised very soon that the usual…
December 9, 2025
Cedric Stephens | Should taxpayers bear the burden of under-insured businesses?
‘SBAJ sounds SOS. Small businesses call for cash aid, loan freezes to jump-start commerce’. That statement summarises a request for help by the Small Business Association of Jamaica’s president to…