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A team from the Cuban Medical Brigade arriving in the Caribbean
December 9, 2025

Grenada agrees to adjust its Cuban health programme amid US concerns

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada government has announced what it termed “important changes” to the Cuban Workers Programme following a request made by the United States to review the…
Proud parents Terry Roman (left) and Simone Ormsby hug their daughter, Kalea Roman (centre), the newly crowned Miss Jamaica World Eastern.
December 9, 2025

Something Extra | Wednesday

Heavy rainfall couldn’t dampen the excitement at the Miss Jamaica Eastern Region grand coronation last Saturday night at the Alfred Sangster Auditorium, University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech).…
Director of Policy Research in the Planning Institute of Jamaica’s (PIOJ) Social Policy Planning and Research Division, Suzette Johnson, discusses the forthcoming poverty maps to be generated using data from the 2025 Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions.
December 9, 2025

PIOJ to generate poverty maps using 2025 Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions data

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has announced that data from the 2025 Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions (JSLC) will be used to generate poverty maps. These are intended to provide deeper…
December 9, 2025

Clarendon man charged with fraud in overseas employment scam

The Manchester police have charged a man who purported to be employed to the Labour Ministry for allegedly defrauding a woman through an overseas employment scam. Martin Moxey, 32, otherwise called…
Gleaner editorial writes: On the matter of the use of BWCs, the JCF should be ready to offer its compelling argument for holding fast to its declared course when what has been proposed by INDECOM, JFJ and others seems so obvious and unimpeachably logical.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Cool heads on body-worn cameras

This newspaper is surprised at the apparent hostility with which the constabulary has responded to organisations calling for the use of body-worn cameras (BWC) when cops go on planned operations. …
Opposition Leader Mark Golding.
December 9, 2025

Golding names new Shadow Cabinet

People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding today named a 36-member Shadow Cabinet comprising a team of spokespersons and some deputies. Among those returning from the previous Shadow…
This GOES-19 GeoColor satellite image taken Sunday, September 28, 2025 and provided by NOAA, shows weather systems in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. (NOAA via AP)
December 9, 2025

Hurricane Humberto and Tropical Storm Imelda threaten the Bahamas and Bermuda

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Bahamas closed a majority of schools on Monday following mandatory evacuations for some islands in the archipelago as Tropical Storm Imelda was expected…
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December 9, 2025

Gordon Robinson | Likkle but tallawah!

So the fatal index finger has finally been raised in the life of the great Harold Dennis “Dickie” Bird. I can hear readers, especially members of Generation Born Yesterday, sounding like New Orleans…
Letters
December 9, 2025

JCF’s defiance sends wrong message

THE EDITOR, Madam: The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has again revealed its contempt for accountability with its statement that “The JCF will not be dictated to by Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), the…