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Nigerian musician and composer Fela Anikulapo Kuti performs on September 13, 1986 at the ‘Party of Humankind’ of the French Communist Party at La Courneuve in Paris, France.
February 2, 2026

Fela Kuti, Chaka Khan, Cher among Grammy Lifetime Achievement awardees

LOS ANGELES (AP): Chaka Khan, Cher, Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Fela Kuti and Whitney Houston received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy at the Grammys Special Merit Awards on…
Sabrina Barnes (right) poses for a photo with Shellyann Weeks at the launch of the Period Panty pilot project at UWI, Mona.
February 2, 2026

Breaking barriers to menstrual equity

On January 22, Mary Seacole Hall at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus became the site of a groundbreaking step towards menstrual equity in Jamaica. The Period Panty Passion Project:…
Father Marlon Myers poses for a photo with some of the congregants.
February 2, 2026

From Ewarton to the high altar

Marlon Marlondo Myers was born into church. Not the casual, once-a-week kind, but the deep, lived-in kind where faith shapes your mornings, your evenings, and your sense of who you are. He grew up in…
Rohlat Afrin, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Women’s Protection Units, right, talks with a soldier in Qamishli, Syria.
February 2, 2026

Supplies running out at al-Hol camp as instability blocks aid deliveries

AL-HASSAKEH (AP): An international humanitarian organisation has warned that supplies are running out at a camp in northeast Syria housing thousands of people linked to the Islamic State group as the…
This undated image provided by Washington State University in January 2026, made from a video taken from a grizzly bear’s collar camera, shows another grizzly bear on the tundra of Alaska’s North Slope.
February 2, 2026

Collar cams offer a bear’s eye view into the lives of grizzlies on Alaska’s North Slope

ANCHORAGE (AP): The life of one of the most remote grizzly bear populations in the world is being documented by the animals themselves, with collar cameras that provide a rare glimpse of how they…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness speaking at CAF investment forum in Panama City.
February 2, 2026

Editorial | A new Bandung?

Last week’s call by Prime Minister Andrew Holness for policy coherence and partnerships between the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, in the face of an increasingly discordant and…
Africka Stephens writes: Discipline should educate and correct behaviour, not humiliate, endanger, or exclude.
February 2, 2026

Ronald Thwaites | Facing uncomfortable truths

Leroy, a 14-year-old yout’ from the hills of Westmoreland was talked about in Parliament last week. He has been getting $2,000 a week during term time from the church his mother attends to help with…
This photo shows reconstruction work, which is under way at the Outpatient Clinic at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital, Westmoreland, which was destroyed during Hurricane Melissa last October.
February 2, 2026

Omar Sweeney | Planning for Jamaica’s infrastructure resilience

The passage of Hurricane Melissa last October has put Jamaica’s infrastructure resilience, especially in the built environment, front and centre. Jamaica, as a small island developing state (SIDS),…
Letters
February 2, 2026

Letter of the Day | Teachers must do more to de-escalate conflicts

THE EDITOR, Madam: The recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Jamaica in favour of a former Norman Manley High School student serves as a reminder of the legal thin line between schoolyard…