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December 9, 2025
Editorial | A carve-out for education
Jamaica plans its recovery from the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, education demands a deliberate, urgent and specific carve-out. In other words, the education is so vital the country’s…
December 9, 2025
Diddy working in prison laundry room
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has a job in his prison’s laundry room. The 55-year-old rap mogul was transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Fort Dix, New Jersey, last week, where he is…
December 9, 2025
A$AP Rocky sparks marriage speculation
A$AP Rocky has reignited speculation he and Rihanna have quietly married after referring to himself as her “husband” in a new interview. The 37-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, made…
December 9, 2025
ROJ organises first phase of national hurricane recovery initiative
In the aftermath of the catastrophic Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica continues to confront the widespread destruction that has displaced families, damaged critical infrastructure and left…
December 9, 2025
by Lester Hinds
Recovery, donation task forces set up to get tourism back on track after Melissa
Following the passage of Hurricane Melissa, which has caused widespread destruction across western Jamaica, high-level recovery and donation task forces for the tourism sector have been established by…
December 9, 2025
by Yasmine Peru
Sean Paul makes appeal on CNN; pledges US$50,000 for hurricane relief
Global dancehall superstar, Sean Paul, told The Gleaner in a recent interview that wherever he goes in the world, Jamaica is always on his mind. The patriotic Jamaican entertainer has been put to the…
December 9, 2025
Evlin Walsh | The costs of cutting down trees
Trees are absolutely vital to all life on Earth. To be blunt, humans cannot survive without them: they are nature’s air purifiers, constantly cleaning our atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and…
December 9, 2025
‘I Love Jamaica’ concert for Kingston Nov 14
‘I Love Jamaica’, a five-concert fundraising series, which will be staged in cities across the world, gets under way on November 14, at the National Stadium Car Park in Kingston, beginning at 7:30…
December 9, 2025
Pía Riggirozzi | Toward COP30: climate change and forced migration in Latin America
Climate change not only destroys territories and ecosystems; it deepens historical inequalities and forces millions of people to move. In Latin America and the Caribbean, where structural poverty,…