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December 9, 2025
Peter Espeut | Christian fundamentalism and Zionism
The area called Canaan is an ancient territory encompassing all of today’s Palestine and Syria west of the Jordan River. Because of its strategic location between Europe, Asia, and Africa, over…
December 9, 2025
Paris court sentences Nicolas Sarkozy to 5 years in prison for criminal conspiracy
PARIS (AP) — A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in an alleged scheme to finance his…
December 9, 2025
Kristen Gyles | AI makes it as a minister
A few days ago, the world reached a historic milestone – its first-ever AI cabinet minister. The Prime Minister of Albania introduced to the Albanian parliament, a female avatar dressed in traditional…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | PSOJ’s sports policy
The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica’s (PSOJ) proposal for public-private partnerships for building new facilities to help advance the island’s prowess in global athletics deserves full and…
December 9, 2025
Earth is not ending soon, despite doomsday predictions
THE EDITOR, Madam: While never casting aspersions on any religion, must say that the latest doomsday prediction being proved inaccurate once again makes me wonder why these end-time predictors are…
December 9, 2025
Sinister buffoonery dressed up as ‘standards’
THE EDITOR, Madam: It is a disgrace that 30 – some say over 60 – Jamaica-born doctors and dentists, after six gruelling years of medical training in China, are now stranded in bureaucratic purgatory…
December 9, 2025
Letter of the Day | Awareness without consistency sinks the cause
THE EDITOR, Madam:
December 9, 2025
Tropical Storm Humberto forms in Atlantic as Hurricane Gabrielle takes aim at the Azores
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Humberto formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday at the same time Hurricane Gabrielle was racing across the ocean toward the Azores islands, forecasters said. A…
December 9, 2025
Haitians who landed in Portland sent home, search continues for those in hiding
Thirty Haitians who were among a group that landed on a beach in Kensington in Portland on Sunday have been sent home. They were repatriated today. The group, which comprised children, was…