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December 29, 2025

ICE nabs Jamaican national among ‘Worst of Worst Criminal Illegal Aliens’

CMC: The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says a Jamaican national is among its ‘Worst of Worst Criminal Illegal Aliens’ arrested during Christmas week. ICE said Jovanne…
Skillet, (in yellow T-shirt), played by Calneth Reid, suggests that a Round Robin could provide the money to save the Big Yard. The 84th season of pantomime, Big Yaad Vibes, opened on Boxing Day at the Little Theatre, in Kingston.
December 29, 2025 by Michael Reckord

Pantomime season opens with ‘Big Yaad Vibes’

Thirteen-year-old Olivia Anderson was one of many celebrants at Friday night’s opening of the current Jamaica pantomime, Big Yaad Vibes, at the Little Theatre, Tom Redcam Avenue. She said she has been…
December 29, 2025

Foods with healthy-sounding buzzwords could be hiding added sugar in plain sight

Many consumers feel pride in avoiding the glazed pastries in the supermarket and instead opting for “all natural” granola that comes packed with extra protein. Same goes for low-fat yoghurt “made with…
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro points to his electronic ankle monitor that the Supreme Court ordered him to wear, at Congress in Brasilia.
December 29, 2025

Judge puts coup plot convicts under house arrest after former police commander flees

SÃO PAULO (AP): A Brazilian judge on Saturday issued house arrest orders for 10 people who have been convicted and sentenced for participating in a plot to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in…
Activists participate in a demonstration outside where negotiations were taking place at the COP30 UN Climate Summit, on November 21, in Belém, Brazil.
December 29, 2025

Matheus Pereira | COP30: Who has access to the information needed to confront the climate crisis?

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), held in the city of Belém, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, may go down in history for something that goes far beyond technical…
People attend funeral prayers for General Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad, coffin at left, in Misrata, Libya, who was killed with others in a plane crash.
December 29, 2025

Hundreds mourn military chief killed in Turkey plane crash

MISRATA (AP): Hundreds of people on Sunday mourned western Libya’s military chief and four others who were killed in a plane crash in Turkey. The coffins of General Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad and…
A man tries out the temporary Eisbach wave in the English Garden in Munich, Germany.
December 29, 2025

Debate over surfing gets gnarly after city removes wave-creating device

FRANKFURT (AP): A debate over how to bring back surfing in Germany’s landmark English Garden escalated on Sunday after city workers removed a beam surreptitiously deployed over Christmas to restore a…
CARICOM Heads of Government pose for a group photo at the 49th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community.
December 29, 2025

‘Clarity, cohesion, strategic discipline’

CMC: Outgoing Caribbean Community (CARICOM) chairman, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, has reiterated the need for the region to remain a ‘Zone of Peace’ grounded in respect for international law, the…
Dr Hyacinth Simpson
December 29, 2025 by Neil Armstrong

Massey College Fellowship to allow professor to complete major projects

Dr Hyacinth Simpson, a Jamaican-Canadian associate professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), has been named a 2025-2026 Massey College Visiting…