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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

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Miss Universe Jamaica, Dr Gabrielle Henry during her presentation.  
December 9, 2025

Thriving beyond lupus

THE LUPUS Foundation of Jamaica (LFJ) has officially launched Lupus Awareness Month (LAM) 2025. The event marked the beginning of a month-long series of activities dedicated to raising national…
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,…
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December 9, 2025

Union representing Sagicor Bank employees wants Labour Ministry intervention amid ongoing wage talks

There is reportedly growing disquiet among employees at Sagicor Bank branches across Jamaica over protracted wage negotiations. Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) Vice President, Rudolph…
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December 9, 2025

Jamaica Inn and S Hotel properties ranked among Condé Nast Traveler’s Top 10 for 2025

Three Jamaican hotels have been ranked among the Top 10 in the US and Caribbean by Condé Nast Traveler’s 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards, reaffirming Jamaica’s position among the world’s most admired…
Yoni Epstein, Chairman of Montego Bay United.
December 9, 2025

Yoni Epstein | How BPO leaders can outwit AI disruption and political uncertainty

There is a growing fear that the outsourcing industry is under threat, not only from the possibility of replacing live agents with AI, but also from policy changes in America, like the proposed bill…
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce gets ready to puh out of the blocks for the very last time during the women's 4x100-metre final at the World Athletics Championships inside the Japan National Stadium.
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

It's official: Fraser-Pryce steps away from the track

Legendary sprinting icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has officially announced her retirement from the sport. Ahead of the National Championships in June Fraser-Pryce had revealed that it would be the…
Indeed, given the current configuration of the Parliament, where it requires a two-thirds majority in both chambers to amend entrenched sections of the Constitution, any bill brought to the House could not advance.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Good sense on Constitution

This newspaper may have misread Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ posture on constitutional reform in the immediate aftermath of last month’s general election. As we indicated in our October 2 comment in…
There is a chair for you to sit as you stare into this mesmerising pool of seawater at Great Huts, Boston, Portland.
December 9, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

Heritage and heroes in the spotlight at Great Huts Eco Resort

FROM FRIDAY, October 17 to Monday, October 20, Great Huts Eco Resort, an eco-friendly, Afrocentric nature sanctuary, perched on the cliffs overlooking the turquoise Boston Bay in eastern Portland,…