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December 9, 2025
Adekeye Adebajo | The fall of Peter Mandelson
The 71-year old Peter Mandelson was recently fired as Britain’s Ambassador to the United States (US) amidst more revelations of his close ties with American financier and convicted sex offender,…
December 9, 2025
Patricia Green | Why is Jamaica celebrating pirates?
What is there to celebrate about pirates that Kingston would be allowed to designate an entire week for this? Historians describe a pirate as the lowest grade of seafaring robbers, the scourge of the…
December 9, 2025
Clothing, resource swaps spreading across neighbourhoods
When Cassie Ridgway held her first clothing swap in Portland, Oregon, 14 years ago, she had a few goals: keep clothes out of landfills, help people find free fashion treasures and build community. The…
December 9, 2025
Mudslides trap drivers, bury roads and damage homes in southern California
OAK GLEN, California (AP) — Mudslides and debris flows knocked down trees, ploughed into homes and trapped drivers for 10 hours after several Southern California communities were hit by heavy rain,…
December 9, 2025
by Neville Graham
GDSS prepping for succession
After five decades at the helm of one of Jamaica’s private and community-rooted waste management companies, Dorothea Gordon-Smith is preparing to hand over the reins of Garbage Disposal &…
December 9, 2025
by Barry Rattray
Dream House | Inside India House: Diplomacy meets culture in St Andrew
We marvel at the unforgettable richness of a civilisation more than 5,000 years old – India, a country of nearly 1.5 billion people that has long been a source of adventure, romance, and spiritual…
December 9, 2025
Nutramix donates canteen, poultry house to Baxter’s Mountain Primary
The Baxter’s Mountain Primary School family in St. Mary is celebrating new opportunities after a canteen, tuck shop, and poultry house populated with 150 ready-to- lay hens were donated by feed brand…
December 9, 2025
Five shot in Portsmouth, one fatally
Police in the St Catherine South division are searching for hoodlums who fatally shot one man and wounded four others in the Portsmouth community in Portmore on Thursday night. Dead is 19-year-old …
December 9, 2025
by Christopher Thomas
Mandatory prostate cancer screening unlikely, says medical officer
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Romario Hart, the medical officer of health at the St Catherine Health Department, says that while men should be proactive in getting regular prostate cancer screenings, he does not…