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The ship will operate in Montego Bay, Kingston and Falmouth and will undertake elective surgeries, including hernia procedures, over the coming week.
December 9, 2025

Chinese medical ship with over 100 clinicians begins operations in Jamaica

The Chinese medical ship Silk Road Ark, staffed by “over 100 clinicians and support team members,” has begun providing outpatient medical services in Montego Bay as Jamaica bolsters its healthcare…
A man looks at the damage caused by the floods at Gampola, Sri Lanka.
December 9, 2025

Omar Sweeney | Impact of global warming on Small Island Developing States

Climate change is a pressing global issue, and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like Jamaica are among the most vulnerable to its devastating impacts. At the start of the 19th century, the human…
Pharrell Williams received the Shoe of the Year honour for the Virginia Adistar Jellyfish.
December 9, 2025

Pharrell honoured with Shoe of the Year award

Pharrell Williams was honoured with the Shoe of the Year award at the 2025 Footwear News Achievement Awards (FNAA) on Wednesday. The 52-year-old musician delivered a powerful speech at the ceremony in…
This 2022 photo shows an under-construction housing scheme in Bernard Lodge Estate.
December 9, 2025

Neil Richards | Stop taking over farmlands to develop housing solutions

Neither Government nor private developers should continue taking over Jamaica’s good farmlands with either simple or sophisticated housing schemes. The use of highly productive agricultural lands for…
December 9, 2025

14-year-old St Catherine boy charged with house breaking and stealing

A 14-year-old boy from St Catherine has been charged with house breaking and theft following an incident in Greater Portmore, St Catherine last month. Reports from the Greater Portmore police are…
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December 9, 2025

Sophia Frazer-Binns | The interconnected crisis

The quote by John Muir ‘When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.’ or by Chief Seattle, that “All things are bound together. All things connect”, is in…
Oblique Seville (second right), Jamaica’s 100 metres world champion and one of the patrons for next year’s Sagicor ‘Run for the West’,  with (from left) Christopher Zacca, president and CEO of Sagicor Group and chairman of Sagicor Foundation; Senat
December 9, 2025 by Gregory Bryce

‘Run for the West’

Forgoing its usual tagline of ‘Run for the Fun’, the 2026 Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run has adopted a new tagline of ‘Run for the West’ as they look to raise a target of $150 million to help the relief…
December 9, 2025

Mark Wignall | Some are mad but don’t know it

I have never been to a psychiatrist in my life but, once, way back when my wife ditched me, I wanted to head east, knock on that big gate, and volunteer my mental insides to the skilled professionals…
Dancehall artiste Jah Vinci
December 9, 2025

Jah Vinci to headline Fri-Nally’s 6th anniversary

Jah Vinci, affectionately known as the World Signa, is set to perform live at the Fri-Nally 6th anniversary celebration tonight on 36 Hope Road. Powered by Campari and Courvoisier, the all-white…