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December 9, 2025

Terran Wright’s journey to bring awareness to sickle cell disease

TERRAN WRIGHT is one of over 20 million people worldwide who live with sickle cell disease (SCD). He has been using triathlon as the vehicle to inspire people to see adversity as opportunity. On this…
In this September 2025 photo, members of parliament are seen at a sitting in Gordon House.
December 9, 2025

Sean Major-Campbell | Letter to Gordon House

Dear Gordon House, Under Jamaica’s bicameral system our legislature comprises the upper house and the lower house which facilitates necessary oversight for good governance. Jamaica is depending on…
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December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

NO BIG VISA HIT

A United States-based immigration attorney says the Trump administration’s changes to the H-1B visa requirements to include a US$100,000 fee per applicant will not impact Jamaica and nationals seeking…
Orville Etoria.
December 9, 2025

J’can repatriated from Eswatini after 2 months

A Jamaican man who was among five migrants deported by the United States to Eswatini in Africa has been repatriated to his home country, Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith confirmed last…
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December 9, 2025 by Olivia Brown

‘Mi leave everything to God’

When Lafay-Ann Wright saw a video on social media showing a young man opening a door for lawmen, the burden of a mother’s grief stirred again, because just days earlier, on September 15, her…