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Kerrie Symmonds, minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade of Barbados
December 29, 2025

Editorial | Mr Symmonds is right

Barbados’ foreign minister, Kerrie Symmonds, has given his “superiors” – as he refers to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government – very sound advice. He has urged them to gather “behind…
Africka Stephens writes: Discipline should educate and correct behaviour, not humiliate, endanger, or exclude.
December 29, 2025

Ruthlyn James | Assessment queue is new locked school gate

In Jamaica today, children are not just being excluded at the school gates, they are being excluded in the assessment queue. A child may be fully enrolled, with fees paid yet still be functionally…
This aerial photo shows a traffic gridlock in Lacovia, St Elizabeth after Hurricane Melissa hit in October.
December 29, 2025

Ronald Thwaites | Spotlight on accountability

This means being responsible for and responsive to each other. The redeeming national virtue of 2025 has been the generosity of spirit, that most sacred civic faculty, shown by so many Jamaicans to…
Letters
December 29, 2025

Letter of the Day | Transparency crucial for oil exploration

THE EDITOR, Madam: On December 19, the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) attended what appeared to be United Oil & Gas’s third stakeholder session, at which the company discussed the next phase of…
Letters
December 29, 2025

Christmas messages, New Year regrets

THE EDITOR, Madam: The Caribbean is awash during the December festivities with messages from our leadership that do not reflect the reality of the homeless, the unemployed and poor finances. This…
Naudia Crosskill, chief executive officer, St James Municipal Corporation, sharing pleasantries with a female ward at the Mustard Seed Children’s Home in Moore Park, St James at their annual Christmas treat.
December 29, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

StJMC CEO urges compassion for the less-fortunate

WESTERN BUREAU: Chief Executive Officer of the St James Municipal Corporation Naudia Crosskill has issued a powerful reminder that wealth and status offer no immunity from life’s uncertainties, as she…
Entertainment
December 29, 2025

Finalists in JCDC FIWI Short Film Competition named

The top eight finalists in the JCDC FIWI Short Film Competition for 2025 have been named. They are: Paris Taylor – How to Not Gossip; Robert Tyme – Bun Dem; Seyvonnie Campbell – Signs of Inclusion;…
Music executive, Portia Clarke-Mellanaise and reggae and R&B star, Maxi Priest, display a symbolic cheque made out to the JN Foundation to assist in its Hurricane Melissa relief efforts. The funds were raised through the staging of the ‘For the Love of J
December 29, 2025

For the Love of Jamaica

Music Executive Portia Clarke-Mellanaise and reggae and R&B star Maxi Priest display a symbolic cheque made out to the JN Foundation to assist in its Hurricane Melissa relief efforts. The funds…
Stocks and Securities Limited founder Hugh Croskery (left), his daughter Sarah Meany (centre), and former CEO Zachary Harding.
December 29, 2025

'Work of this nature takes time,' inspector says as criminal charges hit former SSL execs

The Constabulary Financial Unit (CFU) of the police force has acknowledged public expectations for "swift results" in the Stocks & Securities Limited (SSL) fraud probe but insisted that…