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Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
December 9, 2025

Detention order issued for woman who posted picture of the Trinidad PM’s private residence

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A detention order has been issued for a woman who posted an image of Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s private residence on social media and urged…
An aerial view of Falmouth, Jamaica in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in October 2025.
December 9, 2025

Poems

There are moments the sky refuses to speak, when the wind steals every syllable before it ever leaves your tongue. You watch the horizon darken, and suddenly the world feels smaller than the space…
Participants lie on the ground holding signs that read: ‘Stop violence against women’, during a gender-based violence protest at the forecourt of the botanical gardens in Johannesburg, South Africa.
December 9, 2025

Roberta Clarke | Advancing women’s access to justice across the Americas

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is on November 25, reminds us that women’s right to justice is an essential component of the right to live free from violence…
Volunteers sort through hurricane relief supplies at one of the Silver Spring, Maryland, drop off centres.
December 9, 2025 by Lester Hinds

12-hour radiothon to raise funds for Hurricane Melissa relief efforts

NEW YORK, NYC: Howard University has partnered with the Jamaican Embassy in Washington DC, to host a 12-hour radiothon to raise funds to support people affected by Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. The…
Treasure Beach Food, Rum & Reggae Festival will still receive support from the CHASE Fund, alongside endorsement from Government leaders representing various sectors. Pictured here at the launch event held prior to Hurricane Melissa (from left) Omar Frith,
December 9, 2025

New date, format for Treasure Beach Festival

Treasure Beach Food, Rum and Reggae Festival has announced a reimagined format for this year’s event. It will now take place as a one-day benefit concert on Sunday, December 7, at the Ranny Williams…
Farmer Collette Gordon of Bonnett district, St Catherine, shows her crop to Garnet Edmondson (left), CEO of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, and Agriculture Minister Floyd Green during a RADA field tour in Guys Hill, St Catherine, on Thursday.
December 9, 2025 by Ruddy Mathison

Rapid farm recovery plan unveiled

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has launched a fast-track recovery plan to revive food production following Hurricane Melissa, with immediate focus on parishes identified as critical to…
December 9, 2025

Sean Major-Campbell | Kingston on the mission field

VERY SPECIAL thanks to all who continue to facilitate hurricane-relief outreach. This is such a necessary ministry of compassion and care. Attending to the physical and psychosocial needs of survivors…
Boston Beach, Portland
December 9, 2025

Portland hoteliers prepare to fill tourism gap left by hurricane devastation

After Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica’s tourism capital, Montego Bay, eastern parishes such as Portland are seizing the chance to welcome visitors and showcase their attractions. Tourism Minister…
Devon Carridice, a farmer from Toll Gate in Clarendon, shows Ann-Marie Williams-Swaby, client relations manager at JN Bank Small Business Loans, the damage done to his farm by Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025

Growth & Jobs | ‘I’m not giving up’

DEVON CARRIDICE, a farmer of Toll Gate in Clarendon, is now working to rebuild his livelihood after Hurricane Melissa wiped out most of his crops and severely disrupted his operations. He is in the…