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December 9, 2025
Ma and Kidney | Renminbi internationalisation closing the climate finance gap
As the United States renounces its climate commitments, a chain reaction of wavering pledges and scaled-back investments by other donors and multilateral institutions has followed. This trend raises…
December 9, 2025
GoodHeart | Applications open for Creative Resilience Grant
Kingston Creative, in partnership with the American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ), The Miami Foundation, and generous individual donors, is opening applications for the Creative Resilience Grant, an…
December 9, 2025
St Elizabeth police probe shooting death of man in Treasure Beach
Police in St Elizabeth are investigating the fatal shooting of a man in Treasure Beach early Thursday morning. The deceased has been identified as Mazola WA Mwashighadi. Reports are that about 12:20…
December 9, 2025
Russian Embassy organises Geographical Dictation
On November 30, the Russian-Jamaican Cultural Exchange Club “Russkiy na Jamaica” hosted in Kingston Geographical Dictation for the first time, an international educational event under the auspices of…
December 9, 2025
Sean Major-Campbell | Media for the protection of human rights, justice, and truth
THE PLANNING of the annual human rights service held at Christ Church Vineyard Town met with challenges in the aftermath of the extreme monster Hurricane Melissa. We realised very soon that the usual…
December 9, 2025
Cedric Stephens | Should taxpayers bear the burden of under-insured businesses?
‘SBAJ sounds SOS. Small businesses call for cash aid, loan freezes to jump-start commerce’. That statement summarises a request for help by the Small Business Association of Jamaica’s president to…
December 9, 2025
Oran Hall | Putting debt under manners at year end
Christmas and the days around it are merry-but-costly days which can potentially bring harm to your financial well-being, even if there is additional income. Truth be told, it does not have to be that…
December 9, 2025
Letter of the Day | Teachers are doing their part, students must do theirs
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing in response to the article titled ‘Math whiz says fun learning yields top results’, published on November 16. There is no doubt that Mijaun Talbot deserves his roses…
December 9, 2025
St Mary man charged in armed robbery of motorcyclist
A 22-year-old construction worker of Gully Road, Boscobel, St Mary, has been charged in relation to the armed robbery of a motorcyclist along the Charles Town main road last year. The accused,…