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December 9, 2025
Call of Belém for the climate urges countries to respond urgently to the global crisis
Brazil’s President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, issued a call for urgent action addressed to all countries, aimed at giving renewed momentum to the global fight against climate change. The call…
December 9, 2025
Greta Merrill | The world unites in the face of crisis
In these trying times for the environmental movement, it can sometimes feel impossible to find the (solar-powered) light. In September the International Day of Preservation of the Ozone Layer (or…
December 9, 2025
Lloyd Barnett | Identification and status of the head of state
In the previous articles in this series, I expressed the opinion that at present it appears that Jamaica will change from a monarchical form of Constitution to a republican form but that the…
December 9, 2025
Ronald Thwaites | Choices have consequences
The Minister is right. Each local school board has the practical and legal responsibility to determine how and when to resume school after Melissa.The role of government is to harvest the most urgent…
December 9, 2025
by Robert Bailey
DIVIDED WE STAND
A NUMBER of ISSA/WATA Manning Cup coaches have expressed mixed views on whether the Corporate Area schoolboy football competition should resume following the devastating passage of Category 5…
December 9, 2025
Rico Henry earns first Reggae Boyz call-up as McClaren names 26-man squad for final World Cup qualifiers
Rico Henry, defender for English football club Brentford, has earned his first call-up to the Reggae Boyz as preparations intensify for Jamaica’s final two matches in the Concacaf World Cup…
December 9, 2025
Alsion Roach-Wilson, who rose from homelessness to lead Jamaica’s diplomatic mission in New York, has died
Jamaica’s diplomatic community is mourning the passing of Alsion Roach-Wilson, Consul General to New York, who died on Saturday at her home. She had been battling breast cancer Foreign Affairs…
December 9, 2025
by Corey Robinson
Edwin Allen and Clarendon NW’s fight to recovery
Before Hurricane Melissa made landfall, administrators at Edwin Allen High School decided to send home some 120 students who boarded on campus. Now, in the aftermath of the Category Five storm – which…
December 9, 2025
Apprentice jockey charged in armed robbery of Portmore business
The police have have charged a 21-year-old apprentice jockey in connection with the armed robbery of a business establishment in Newlands, Portmore, last month. He is Delroy Eric Walker, a…