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December 10, 2025

Letter of the Day | Why Buchanan’s case failed before it began

THE EDITOR, Madam: The recent ruling of the Supreme Court in the matter involving Mr Paul Buchanan offers an important and sobering lesson for all Jamaicans who turn to the courts for electoral…
Alsion Wilson
December 10, 2025 by Lester Hinds

Scholarship announced in memory of Roach-Wilson

A scholarship fund honouring the legacy, education and love of Jamaica is to be established in the name of the late Consul General in New York, Roach-Wilson. Details of the fund have not yet been…
Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James.
December 10, 2025 by Steven Jackson

MoBay air travel traffic plummets by three-quarters in November

Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay recorded its steepest traffic decline since the onset of the pandemic, with total passengers plunging 73.4 per cent in November, compared with the same…
News
December 10, 2025 by Lester Hinds

CTO hosts fundraiser to aid Jamaican tourism workers

The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) has set a target of US$100,000 to assist Jamaican tourism workers affected by Hurricane Melissa, with half of the funds also earmarked for Haiti. A fundraising…
Ricardo Hausmann
December 10, 2025

Hausmann and Gabay | Deeper into the public procurement goldmine

Governments have long recognised that innovation drives economic growth. To nurture it, they have created ministries, agencies, and incubators, offering grants, subsidies, and prizes to innovators…
Persons mill around at the opening of the Church’s Texas Chicken fast-food eatery, at the opening of the franchise’s first store at Mall Plaza, Constant Spring Road, Kingston, on December 8, 2025.
December 10, 2025

Church’s Chicken to establish 10 restaurants, first now open

Quick-service restaurant chain Church’s Texas Chicken opened its first store on its return to Jamaica on Monday at the Mall Plaza in Kingston, with the operators stating that it will be the first of…
Mastercard’s Vice-President for SMEs, Mark Barnett,
December 10, 2025 by Sashana Small

AI agents to enter Mastercard’s Caribbean payments space

Mastercard has announced that its agentic payments programme, designed to allow authorised artificial-intelligence (AI) agents to conduct transactions securely, will reach Latin America and the…
What was once prime beachfront property now lies desolate along the shoreline at Crane Road in Black River, St Elizabeth.
December 10, 2025

Comprehensive housing solutions needed

THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing with reference to the article by Christopher Burgess, ‘Rebuilding housing in western Jamaica’. It reminded us that resilient solutions must, not only be appropriate…
US President Donald Trump (right) and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
December 10, 2025

Norris R. McDonald | Trump, Hegseth, and US hegemony: Blood in our waters

ON DECEMBER 4, the US Senate and Congress launched investigations into a horrific incident where unarmed fishermen, survivors of an American airstrike, were later deliberately targeted and killed…