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Forming a big part of Janelle Pantry-Coke’s support system are her husband, Dylan Coke, and their daughters, Amari (second left) and Zein. Pantry-Coke, the founder of Spaces Jamaica, marked 18 years in 2025 with a heartfelt brunch and charity auction, tu
December 9, 2025 by Rollesha Laing

GoodHeart | Spaces Jamaica brunch for home, heart

As paddles went up and pledge cards were signed and returned amid the clinking of glasses, bursts of laughter, and chatter, it was clear that Spaces Jamaica’s 18-year milestone held an especially dear…
CIBC Caribbean Jamaica Head of Country, Annique Dawkins (centre), with the bank’s 2025 Unsung Heroes Dr Kirk Morgan (right), winner; Tennielle Campbell Williamson, runner-up at the CIBC Caribbean 2025 Unsung Heroes Awards Ceremony at the Terra Nova All S
December 9, 2025

Two Jamaicans recognised in CIBC Caribbean Unsung Heroes Awards

CIBC Caribbean has honoured two Jamaicans for their quiet, consistent service to others as part of its 2025 Unsung Heroes Awards, a regional programme celebrating extraordinary contributions made…
Ambassador Byron Blake
December 9, 2025

Byron Blake | COP30: A requiem for Jamaica and SIDS

With the omission of five small words, “transition away from fossil fuels”, from its final Declaration, COP30 sentenced Jamaica and other small islands and low-lying coastal states (SIDS) to an early…
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December 9, 2025

Garth Rattray | Paradoxical desocialisation by social media – Part 1

Over the years, human beings have been extremely inventive and creative in discovering, inventing, or improving / developing things that are extremely useful to us as a race. Although we…
Jamaican vocalist Jodian Pantry.
December 9, 2025

Jodian Pantry drops holiday single ‘My Christmas’

Jamaican singer Jodian Pantry releases her new holiday single, My Christmas, a soulful love song produced by Paul ‘Patchy’ Wright for IslandYard Productions. With warm vocals and a contemporary…
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Fayval Williams
December 9, 2025

Editorial | When Fayval speaks

While her Cabinet colleagues have hogged the show, talking about everything – from its economic impact to plans for recovery, Fayval Williams, the finance minister, has been peculiarly quiet in the…
University of London Chancellor Princess Anne (left) speaks with Professor Sir Hilary Beckles during the conferment ceremony on November 19 in the United Kingdom.
December 9, 2025

University of London honours Beckles

The University of London has conferred the degree of Honorary Doctor of Social Sciences on Professor Sir Hilary Beckles. The award was presented during the university’s Foundation Day ceremony on…
Marvin Clowson, principal of Ocho Rios High School
December 9, 2025 by Carl Gilchrist

Ocho Rios High School welcomes 100 visiting students

Principal of Ocho Rios High School, Marvin Clowson, says while the school is accommodating students displaced by Hurricane Melissa, it will not be processing transfer requests at this time. Ocho Rios…
Old sign for the UK Border and Immigration Agency (now Border Agency) at the entrance to Home Office, Lunar House, Croydon. Image shot 2007. Exact date unknown.
December 9, 2025

Parents disappointed after UK Home Office reportedly rejects visa for 8-y-o daughter impacted by Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica

The UK Guardian is reporting that a Jamaican woman and her British husband have been left disappointed after the Home Office rejected a visa application for their eight-year-old daughter. They had…