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Contributed photos Xana Romeo is preparing to release her third full-length album in January.
05 Dec, 2025 0

Xana Romeo honours father Max Romeo’s legacy with ‘The Divine Blueprint’

Reggae chanteuse Xana Romeo exudes a girlish excitement when talking about her new album, but there is still a bit of nostalgia that seeps through. However, the singer, who is among her siblings…
A study conducted by the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) covering 16 Latin American countries found that wage employment – mostly formal – does not respond to increases in external demand.
05 Dec, 2025 0

The regional labor market: Growth without formalisation, recession with precarisation

The countries of the region are characterised by being small and open economies, which means that their growth is heavily conditioned by the level of global economic activity – particularly that of…
AP A COPA Airlines plane takes off at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, days after the government revoked operating rights for international airlines that suspended flights following a warning from the US Federal Aviation Admini
05 Dec, 2025 0

Imani Tafari-Ama | Making of an enemy

When the president of the United States (US) announced that he was closing the airspace of Venezuela, I got the proverbial whiplash. With intense war threats a daily occurrence, this kind of…
Skatta Burrell
05 Dec, 2025 0

Skatta does the ‘Coolie Dance’ with new publishing deal

Producer Cordel ‘Skatta’ Burrell says he is looking to replicate across the local music fraternity his recent global success from a lucrative publishing deal. Having joined forces with Reservoir Media…
Dr. M. Audrey Stewart-Hinchcliffe, CD, JP, BA, M.Sc., DBE (h.c.), Chairman of Manpower & Maintenance Services (MMS) Limited Group
05 Dec, 2025 0

Audrey Stewart-Hinchcliffe | After Hurricane Melissa – Understanding sanitation vs sanitisation: A public health dilemma

We will agree that the passing of Melissa, a Category 5 Hurricane, on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, has again brought us to a place akin to where we were during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It is a…
In October, the KSAMC said it was prepared to make public the name of advertising companies that owe the municipality millions for billboard advertisements across the municipality.
05 Dec, 2025 0

Illegal billboards dominant across Kingston and St Andrew; KSAMC explores regularisation

The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) will be exploring measures to regularise individuals or entities who erect billboards illegally across the municipality. This comes in the…
Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Richard Vernon.
05 Dec, 2025 0

St James residents urged to carry out proper waste disposal post-Melissa

WESTERN BUREAU: As cleanup and restoration efforts continue following Hurricane Melissa’s passage on October 28, the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) is warning St James’ residents to properly…
FILE - Debris surrounds damaged homes along the Black River, St Elizabeth, on Thursday, October 30, 2025 in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.
05 Dec, 2025 0

Replenishment: A prayer after Melissa

Home is where / one starts from. Raise the Nile to its measures, according to Your grace O Lord Give joy to the face of the earth May its furrows be abundantly watered and its fruits be…
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meets in Atlanta on December 5, 2025 to consider changes in hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for infants.
05 Dec, 2025 0

US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth

(AP) — A United States vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all US babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. Hepatitis B is a…