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December 19, 2025
Republic of Korea provides $48 million humanitarian donation
The Government of the Republic of Korea has provided US$300,000 (J$48 million) in humanitarian assistance to Jamaica as the island rebuilds after the catastrophic passage of Hurricane Melissa. In…
December 19, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
‘I still cry every night’
A senior police officer broke down in court last Friday after her son’s alleged killer raised a claim of self-defence, forcing sentencing to be aborted for the second time in five years. St Thomas…
December 19, 2025
Epstein accuser’s memoir sells 1m copies worldwide
A posthumous memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s best known accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, has sold one-million copies worldwide two months after its release. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced…
December 19, 2025
by Yasmine Peru
5 Questions With Chi Ching Ching
Radion Beckford, better known as Chi Ching Ching, can be counted on to be the life of the party, whether or not he has a mic in his hand or has on his dancing shoes and is rolling out his own red…
December 19, 2025
by Paul H. Williams
Creative industry stunned by artist’s murder
The creative community in Jamaica has been shaken by the violent murder of Kenya-born Jamaican fusion sculptor Mazola wa Mwashighadi, a death wholly at odds with the man they knew. He had made Jamaica…
December 19, 2025
by Gregory Bryce
JC, Excelsior ready to fight for title
Perennial title contenders Jamaica College (JC) will face off against a proven Excelsior High unit in a fight for urban schoolboys football supremacy today in the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup final at the…
December 19, 2025
Citizen oversight boost
The Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal (JAMP) has awarded €37,908 ($7 million) in European Union-funded grants to two civil-society organisations to strengthen citizen engagement in public financial…
December 19, 2025
by Albert Ferguson
More overseas linesmen arrive to boost electricity restoration
WESTERN BUREAU: There is a renewed sense of hope in western Jamaica following Wednesday’s arrival of 117 linemen from the Canadian company Graystone who are equipped with heavy-duty equipment to speed…
December 19, 2025
Mobile clinic gifted by California charity rolls out in W’land
A mobile clinic donated by California-based international humanitarian charity organisation, Direct Relief, has been deployed by Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton in Westmoreland to aid Darliston…