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December 9, 2025
Prada heir Lorenzo Bertelli will have strategic role at Versace
MILAN (AP): Prada heir Lorenzo Bertelli will have a major strategic role as executive chairman of Versace after the Prada Group completes its 1.25 billion-euro (US$1.4 billion) deal to buy its rival,…
December 9, 2025
Vector control workers stoned in St Elizabeth
The Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) is urging members of the public to desist from attacking vector control workers carrying out their duties, following a stoning incident on Tuesday. The…
December 9, 2025
Man arrested following discovery of his mother's decomposing body
Detectives assigned to the St Catherine North police have taken a man into custody in connection with the suspected murder of his elderly mother whose body was found in an advanced state of…
December 9, 2025
JDF Coast Guard seizes cocaine valued over $3.7 billion off coast of Jamaica
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) says the Coast Guard seized a little over 990 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of $3.7 billion dollars following a successful joint counter-narcotics…
December 9, 2025
Ohene Blake | Cauterising the adverse economic impacts of Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa has devastated the western third or more of Jamaica. This is the prime real sector for economic growth. It is the centre of agricultural food production for the entire Jamaican and…
December 9, 2025
Peter Espeut | God is not like humanity
Many of us Jamaicans are Old Testament people – which is fine if we follow the Jewish faith tradition. But if we are children of the New Covenant – the New Testament – then we follow a different…
December 9, 2025
Collective recovery and smart planning post-Melissa
THE EDITOR, Madam: The devastation wrought by Hurricane Melissa has left Jamaica at a critical juncture. As we mourn the losses and rebuild our communities, we must also embrace the lessons offered…
December 9, 2025
Melissa exposes critical need for TVET training
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing further to Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness’ statement to Parliament on November 6, which laid out a recovery framework anchored by the principle of “building forward…
December 9, 2025
Letter of the Day | Hanover – the bypassed parish
THE EDITOR, Madam: Hanover happens to be the parish in which I was born and where I received my education up to the secondary level. My navel string is there. Throughout my lifetime, Hanover has…