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Cedrica Reid (right), marketing and sales manager at JN Money Services, shares an embrace with Evona Blair after paying for her groceries at In Town Supermarket, in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth, on December 18.
December 29, 2025

Checkout cheer

Gratitude, relief and excitement rippled through In Town Supermarket in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth, on December 18, as JN Money covered grocery bills for several customers still reeling from the…
Tyler Perry speaks during the BET Awards on Monday, June 9, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
December 29, 2025

‘Money grab’ says lawyer as Tyler Perry faces second sexual misconduct lawsuit

Tyler Perry’s lawyer has branded a new allegation of sexual misconduct a “failed money grab”. The actor-and-filmmaker is the subject of a $77-million lawsuit from Mario Rodriguez, who appeared in his…
Paul Bourne, researcher
December 29, 2025 by Corey Robinson

Study raises alarm over sexual practices of Jamaican women, girls

A recent study has determined that a troubling percentage of Jamaican teenagers, including girls as young as 15, are engaging in sexual activity with multiple partners. At the same time, the research…
Reggae Girlz head coach Hubert Busby Jr.
December 29, 2025 by Gregory Bryce

Ricketts supports Busby extension amid coaching review

Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) President Michael Ricketts has thrown his support behind handing Reggae Girlz head coach Hubert Busby a contract extension amid the mandated coaching review as Busby…
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December 29, 2025 by Christopher Thomas

St James Health Department renting 15 garbage trucks for clean-up effort

WESTERN BUREAU: Lennox Wallace, parish manager for the St James Health Department, says the department is arranging to rent several garbage trucks to carry out its own waste collection in sections of…
Congressman Jamie Raskin.
December 29, 2025

Lawmakers condemn Trump plan targeting Caribbean immigrant families seeking health, food aid

WASHINGTON (CMC): Immigration leaders in the United States House of Representatives and the Senate have condemned President Donald J. Trump’s proposed rule that would punish Caribbean and other…
An Aymara grandmother passes the ball during a warm up before the start of a handball match in El Alto, Bolivia.
December 29, 2025

Indigenous women carry history and pride in the traditional ‘pollera’ skirt

LA PAZ (AP) Before setting out for the wide, white mountain, Ana Lia González Maguiña took stock of her gear: A chunky sweater to guard against the chill. A harness and climbing rope to scale the…
French actress Brigitte Bardot with actor Jack Palance during filming of the movie ‘Le Mepris” aka ‘Contempt’, by Jean-Luc Godard, in Rome, Italy, in May 1963.
December 29, 2025

‘We are mourning a legend’ - French president says of Brigitte Bardot

PARIS (AP): Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist and far-right supporter, has died.…
Mariela Gómez (right) and her partner Abraham Castro, a migrant couple, sit for Christmas dinner at Castro’s parents’ home in Maracay, Venezuela.
December 29, 2025

A family’s Christmas: From the American dream to poverty

MARACAY (AP) This was not the Christmas that Mariela Gómez would have imagined a year ago. Or the one that thousands of other Venezuelan immigrants would have thought about. But Donald Trump returned…