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This image released by Voracious shows the cookbook ‘The Chinese Way’ by Betty Liu.
17 Sep, 2026 0

Recipe | Betty Liu’s sesame-cumin chicken

Deep-frying (zhà), a well-known technique where the food is fried in a pool of hot oil, which both cooks it and creates a crispy exterior, is used throughout the ‘Frying’ chapter in my cookbook The…
Volunteers work together to remove garbage from the Port Royal Beach as part of a beach clean-up activity hosted by the European Union Delegation to Jamaica, in recognition of an earlier International Coastal Clean-Up Day.
17 Sep, 2026 0

Earth Today | ‘Away is a place’

THE JAMAICA Environment Trust (JET) is challenging the public – individuals and organisations alike – to take stock of what happens after their solid waste leaves their hands with the observance of…
17 Sep, 2026 0

Earth Today | Integrated action said key to solving the world’s climate, clean air woes

WITH THE world appearing set to exceed, if only temporarily, 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming while air pollution claims the lives of millions each year, there is an urgent call to action for an…
Bahía de las Águilas, National Recreation Area within a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Hispaniola. Photo: Kurt Prospere/CBF.
17 Sep, 2026 0

Earth Today | Learning from climate-resilience approaches in Hispaniola

TUCKED INTO the southwest corner of Hispaniola, where the Dominican Republic meets Haiti, lies a stretch of land and sea unlike almost anywhere else on Earth. Mountains give way to dry forest, dry…
A worker gets a robot ready for demonstration at a booth for leading Chinese commercial humanoid robotics firm Unitree Robotics during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, on July 18, 2026.
17 Sep, 2026 0

AI fear or China panic?

THE EDITOR, Madam: If it were not so pathetic and dangerous in equal measure, it would be side-splittingly funny. The bog-eyed, empathy-devoid, marvellously immature, greedy and stupid…
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17 Sep, 2026 0

Editorial | Fee waiver changes little

Were we cynical, The Gleaner might have interpreted the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council’s (JCPC) intervention to have the British government waive visa fees for overseas litigants not as a…