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December 9, 2025
by Keisha Hill
GK Campus Connect Food Bank passionate about service to students
OVER 300 students at the University of Technology (UTech), The University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI) and the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts continue to benefit from the…
December 9, 2025
by Andre Williams
UWI student found dead in dorm room
Residents at the George Alleyne Hall at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, were offered counselling services yesterday following the suspected suicide of a female student. The deceased has…
December 9, 2025
Venezuela at UN condemns latest US strike in Caribbean, as people in Trinidad mourn
LAS CUEVAS, Trinidad (AP) — Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, condemned on Thursday a recent US strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people, calling…
December 9, 2025
Tribute: In the footsteps of the brave
Each year, as the third Monday in October arrives, Jamaica pauses not merely for a holiday, but for a profound act of remembrance. National Heroes’ Day, officially observed since 1969, honours those…
December 9, 2025
You are just an ‘instrument’
Each of us plays a note in the grand symphony of life. Sometimes our role brings joy, sometimes lessonsm yet each note has meaning in the larger design. We often believe we are the ones composing the…
December 9, 2025
Ronald Sanders | A new world order — or formal admission of the old?
The world has long spoken of a “rules-based order” as though the law itself held dominion over power. Yet, behind the diplomatic courtesies and the fine print of charters, it was power that wrote the…
December 9, 2025
Tony Deyal | Calypso festival, light and spirit
There was a young woman called Starkie. Who had an affair with a darky. The result of her sins. Was quadruplets, not twins One black and one white and two khaki.
December 9, 2025
Curtis Ward | Implications of US military operations in the southern Caribbean
At the time of writing this article, US military strikes blew up five small boats in the southern Caribbean Sea between Venezuela and Trinidad and killed nearly 30 people. No evidence has been offered…
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | Do you know that politician?
Unless he was socially premature and thus not fully formed at the beginning, just about every politician is made with two essential major parts. The first is the need to rev the ego while on…