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December 26, 2025
Peter Espeut | Sweetheart deals and bastard capitalism
I read with great interest the article in The Gleaner of Monday, December 22, by Winsome Callum, director of corporate communications at the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) as she tried to…
December 26, 2025
by Nicola Cunningham
5 Questions With Mortimer
It was a day of food, fun, fashion, and plenty of gift ideas at Sunday’s Kingston Creative Art Walk Festival Gran’ Market edition, the final staging of the year. Booth holders and artisans turned out…
December 26, 2025
by Damian Levy
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ – A ruthless return to Pandora
As the 2009 film Avatar concluded, there was a distinct sense of finality. The heroes had won the day, and a new era had dawned over the world of Pandora. It certainly made the 13 year-wait for its…
December 26, 2025
Kristen Gyles | Starting at 2:41 on a Friday afternoon
Welcome to the first day of ‘Twixmas’. ‘Twixmas’ is a relatively new term to describe the transitional period betwixt Christmas and the New Year. It’s that awkward period where people don’t quite…
December 26, 2025
Charles Jr, Coore-Lobban firm on safety for farm workers
The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme (SAWP) between Canada and Jamaica is being hailed as one of the most successful and longest-running labour mobility programmes in the world. Known more…
December 26, 2025
by Mickalia Kington
Blauwearie gets drinkable water from Global Medic
Western Bureau: For years, students at Blauwearie Primary and Infant School relied on water from a nearby stream, rain catchment and bottled supplies, never fully certain if the water they had access…
December 26, 2025
by Karen Madden
Jamaican diplomats in Canada working to meet diaspora demands
Just over two years since her Ottawa posting, Jamaica’s High Commissioner to Canada Marsha Coore-Lobban is hailing an improvement in consular services as being among her accomplishments, but admits to…
December 25, 2025
Turkey detains dozens of IS suspects planning attacks on Christmas and New Year celebrations
ISTANBUL (AP) — Istanbul police launched scores of simultaneous raids on Thursday, detaining over a hundred suspected members of the militant Islamic State group who were allegedly planning attacks…
December 25, 2025
Man killed, several injured in multi-vehicle crash in St Mary
A man was killed and several others injured in a crash along the Oracabessa main road in St Mary early Christmas morning. The deceased has been identified by the police as 58-year-old Devon Anthony…