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December 9, 2025

Businessman freed of gun charges arising from road rage incident

Businessman D'Oyen Duncan was freed of gun-related charges when he appeared in the Gun Court on Tuesday. He was charged with assault at common law, using a firearm to commit a felony and…
Police investigators at the scene of a shooting in Kingston on October 7.
December 9, 2025

Updated|Two minors among six shot in Kingston, police keeping watch on area

The police are keeping a close watch on sections of Central Kingston following a shooting on Tuesday night that left six people injured. A nine-year old and a disabled teen were among those shot. …
Dr Kasan Troupe (right), permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, and Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr Dana Morris-Dixon.
December 9, 2025

UNESCO, JTC launch AI training workshops for teachers

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Office for the Caribbean, in partnership with the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) – an agency of the Ministry of Education,…
Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics Goran Johansson explains this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, at the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, on Tuesday, Oc
December 9, 2025

Career page photo

Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon (centre), minister of education, skills, youth and information; Sally Porteous (left), and David Harris (centre), president and CEO of Christel House International; speaking with the student Icana Blackwood (second left) during
December 9, 2025 by Ruddy Mathison

Education minister pledges new models to transform schools

Jamaica’s education system could soon see sweeping innovations aimed at transforming how schools operate across the island, according to Education Minister Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon. Speaking on…
Cherry-Ann Boyce
December 9, 2025 by Keisha Hill

Cherry-Ann Boyce breast cancer survival story inspires other women

CHERRY-ANN BOYCE was deathly afraid when she visited the oncology clinic at the Kingston Public Hospital and saw the number of women that were diagnosed with breast cancer; herself included. Not only…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness holds the hand of a grieving woman who lost her niece along the Commodore Road in Linstead, St Catherine, on October 6, where nine persons were shot by gunmen, five fatally on October 5.
December 9, 2025 by Ruddy Mathison

‘ACT OF TERROR’

The death of four-year-old Shannon Gordon, one of five persons murdered during Sunday night’s mass shooting in St Catherine, has left her relatives and teachers shattered. During the incident in the…
Speaker of the House of Representatives Juliet Holness, Chief Hansard Reporter Carl Bryan (centre), and Clerk to the Houses of Parliament Colleen Lowe at the opening ceremony for orientation of members of parliament.
December 9, 2025

New Parliament gets under way

Members of the new House of Representatives are expected to turn out in their numbers today for their first working day at Gordon House, more than two weeks after they took the Oath of Allegiance. …
Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Service Fund (USF), Charlton McFarlane (left), greets grade 11 student at William Knibb Memorial High School in Trelawny, Amere Pugh (right), at the USF Influencer Creative Workshop held at the St Hilda’s High Sch
December 9, 2025

Students benefit from USF’s inaugural Influencer Creative Workshop

STUDENTS LOOKING to become content creators and influencers were equipped with the knowledge and skills to build their brand and succeed in the digital space at the Universal Service Fund’s (USF)…