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Liston Morrison (right), president of the International Community of Churches, who is visually impaired, holds his two-year-old son Mathias Morrison at the Ministry of Justice, Legal Aid Council’s Justice Fair for Persons with Disabilities in Spanish Tow
February 11, 2026 by Ruddy Mathison

Blindness threatens former Guantanamo Bay chef’s livelihood

For 21 years, Liston Morrison has been living in a world that has slowly faded into darkness. The 60-year-old Spanish Town resident, once a proud and hard-working chef who spent years preparing meals…
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February 11, 2026

Police issue evacuation order to illegal miners

PARAMARIBO (CMC): The Suriname Police Force (KPS) has given illegal miners until Friday to leave the concession of the Chinese-owned Zijin/Rosebel Gold Mines (RGM), where a recent accident claimed a…
Retired Colonel Jaimie Ogilvie (left), vice president of Hi‑Pro; Peter Thompson (centre), executive director of Jamaica 4‑H Clubs; and Sherrae Wong‑Black (right), Hi‑Pro farm store manager, share a light moment as they handle three of the 3,000 bab
February 11, 2026

Hi-Pro donates over $2m in farm supplies to 4-H Clubs

4-H Clubs across the island will benefit from a $2.3 million donation of farm supplies from Hi-Pro, a division of the Jamaica Broilers Group. The symbolic handover took place at the Hi-Pro Ace…
Dr Summer Lopez is the proud owner of Body Forte, and she was honoured to host Sagicor’s Pilates, Plates and Prosecco Experience.
February 11, 2026 by Krysta Anderson

Mindful movement takes centre stage during Sigma season

Last Saturday, fitness lovers rang in the second month of the year with A Pilates, Plates and Prosecco, a curated wellness experience. Invitees gathered at Body Forte, located at the Sovereign…
Letters
February 11, 2026

My brother compensated the planter who enslaved our great-grandfather

THE EDITOR, Madam:
Rotary Club of New Kingston District Governor William Aiken (second from left) and president Alex Robinson (far right), joined by Vice‑Principal of Constant Spring Primary and Infant School Michelle Wiggins (fifth from left), during the handover of an AE
February 11, 2026

Rotary Club of New Kgn donates heart machine to Constant Spring Primary

Staff and students of Constant Spring Primary School are now better equipped to respond to cardiac emergencies, thanks to the donation of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) by the Rotary Club…
Letters
February 11, 2026

India’s win

THE EDITOR, Madam: It seems that India has won the heart of the Trump Administration lately. The US government has surprisingly reduced India’s export tariffs of goods from a high of 50 percent to…
Letters
February 11, 2026

Letter of the Day | Why Jamaica’s reforms keep failing

THE EDITOR, Madam: The recent column by Jalil Dabdoub in The Gleaner, describing Jamaica’s culture of “joke ting governance,” powerfully names a problem many of us have long observed: the belief…
Letters
February 11, 2026

Barbados, Jamaica and the cost of political culture

THE EDITOR, Madam: The recent comparisons between Jamaica and Barbados have stirred discomfort, but discomfort is often the beginning of honest reflection. While some commentary may be blunt, the…