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December 9, 2025

Orville Taylor | Rules matter

Sometimes, it is unimportant who one is; but more significant is the ‘where’, because external statuses can clash and one must be sensible enough to know where the respective lines end or begin. To…
In this September 2025 photo, members of parliament are seen at a sitting in Gordon House.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Fixing a lazy Parliament

The Gleaner notes, and welcomes, the undertaking by the Government and the Opposition that their members will be regular, and punctual, at meetings of the legislature, including its committees, during…
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December 9, 2025

Garth Rattray | The agony of missing children

Several years ago, our two dogs went missing for a while. We went from a state of shock and confusion to stark panic, dismay, gut wrenching distress, emotional pain, and then elation when they were…

World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders alum Nadine Matthews Blair (left), Lady Mariéme Jamme (centre) and Mariame McIntosh Robinson at the S Hotel in New Kingston Thursday.
December 9, 2025 by Erica Virtue

‘When you have skills, you become free’

The granddaughter of Senegalese royalty, Lady Mariéme Jamme has one main objective and it’s to use her platform to impact the lives of disadvantaged girls worldwide. She wants to do this by empowering…
Tyrese Gibson arrives at a special screening of "Morbius" on March 30, 2022, at Cinemark Playa Vista theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
December 9, 2025

Tyrese Gibson booked into Georgia jail and released on bond following cruelty to animal charge

Actor Tyrese Gibson was booked into a Georgia jail early Friday, a week after he failed to turn himself in following an arrest warrant for cruelty to animals, police said. Gibson was released the…
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles Jr ( right), converses with Executive Director of the Jamaica Society for the Blind, Conrad Harris (left), and Director of Stakeholder Engagement at the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), Trevo
December 9, 2025

Gov’t reviewing proposals to enhance telecoms services for persons with disabilities

The Government is currently reviewing proposals designed to enhance telecommunications services for persons with disabilities islandwide. Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles Jr,…
 Jamaica College’s Duwayne Burgher (centre) attempts to dribble  past Serani Brown (left) and Antoinne Burton of  Vauxhall High during their Manning Cup football match at Vauxhall yesterday. The game ended in a 1-1 draw.
December 9, 2025 by Robert Bailey

Wasteful JC held to draw by Vauxhall

Ian Forbes, manager of former champions Jamaica College (JC), was left disappointed after his team played out a 1-1 draw against hosts Vauxhall High in their ISSA/WATA Manning Cup Zone C match…
Attorney-at-law Tamika Harris.
December 9, 2025

Advocates Association presses gov't to address overcrowded, unsanitary police lockups

The Advocates Association of Jamaica (AAJ) is calling for the Government to urgently address the deplorable state of the country’s police lockups, which it says has been long documented. The…

Lambert Brown, trade unionist and People’s National Party senator.
December 9, 2025 by Erica Virtue

Dixon defence

Trade unionist Lambert Brown, an industrial relations adviser to the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA), is claiming that the Orders used for the interdiction of Dr Aujae Dixon are not…