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A court date is being finalised.
December 9, 2025

Security guard implicated in Beryllium theft caught

The security guard who reportedly made off with over $15 million from a Beryllium money courier vehicle has been caught after a seven-day manhunt, the police have confirmed. The 42-year-old guard…
In this September 2025 photo, members of parliament are seen at a sitting in Gordon House.
December 9, 2025

Shinique Walters | Role of the MP in nation-building

The 2025 general election spotlight was turned to Eastern Portland and the surprising defeat of Ann Marie Vaz. Despite her highly publicised community intervention, most notably road repairs and other…
Homeland Security Minister, Roger Alexander.
December 9, 2025

T&T Gov't urges relatives of those killed in US military strike to come forward

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government on Friday urged relatives of two men allegedly killed when the United States bombed a small vessel in international waters near the…
Christopher Tufton, minister of health and wellness.
December 9, 2025

Gordon Robinson | Always market me!

There has been much public discussion, most of it uninformed, about a recent report from Integrity Commission’s (IC’s) Director of Investigation (DI). IC began by recording what it investigated: “DI…

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
December 9, 2025

David Salmon | Pragmatic foreign policy is not moral bankruptcy

A new sport has emerged among commentators where each battles to see who can repeat trite comparisons between Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness and Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley. Sometimes this…
Letters
December 9, 2025
Letters
December 9, 2025

Culture of crudeness and indiscipline in schools

THE EDITOR, Madam: It seems as if Jamaica has found itself on a steady diet of indiscipline and crudeness among children, both in the classroom and on the streets. The once-sacred space of learning…
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives as he goes on trial over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
December 9, 2025

Adekeye Adebajo | The comeuppance of Nicolas Sarkozy

The recent conviction of 70-year old former French president (2007-2012), Nicolas Sarkozy, for criminal conspiracy and “corruption at the highest level”, marked the final humiliation of a rabidly…