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Hurricane Melissa was a devastating wakeup call about the brutality of extreme weather events to which Jamaica and the Caribbean are especially vulnerable because of climate change.
Published 12 hours ago

Earth Today | New EFJ podcast unpacks climate challenge for Jamaicans

THE PUBLIC now has the benefit of a new a podcast, one intended to help them make sense of climate change impacts, while placing them at the centre of conversations about how readiness can be…
A resident of Trinidad and Tobago stands in a large deposit of sargassum.
Published 12 hours ago

Earth Today | Managing biological invasions in a warming Caribbean

ACROSS THE Caribbean, species that do not belong are quietly reshaping our coasts and reefs, one spiny fin and drifting mat at a time. The lionfish is the poster child of this problem. With its…
Students show off their project at the recent JPS Foundation Climate Action Conference and Expo held in Kingston.
Published 12 hours ago

Earth Today | Young minds show off green solutions

AS CLIMATE change intensifies, Jamaica, like many small island developing states (SIDS), faces growing threats from flooding, heat stress, food insecurity, and environmental degradation. However,…
Tiffany McLeggon writes: It appears in the ways we learn to navigate around broken systems rather than insist that they be fixed ... because we begin to question whether better is even possible.
Published 12 hours ago

Tiffany McLeggon | We are not a nation meant to cower

There are some lines you do not expect to hear in a Senate debate. Not because they are out of place but because they carry a kind of weight that forces you to pause. Last week, People’s National…
Published 12 hours ago

Africka Stephens and Nickasha Dockery | Hearts and hashtags: Keeping teen dating safe online

As teenagers, many of us remember sneaking an Instagram or Facebook message on our phones or iPads, even though our parents often told us to stay away from social media – risking our devices being…
Matthew Perry poses for a portrait in New York on February 17, 2015. (Photo by Brian Ach/Invision/AP, File)
Published 14 hours ago

‘Ketamine Queen’ gets 15 years in prison for selling Matthew Perry the drugs that killed him

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling actor Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in 2023. …
Published 15 hours ago

Police in the Bahamas arrest husband of US woman who vanished from boat

Police in the Bahamas said late Wednesday they have arrested the husband of a United States woman who was aboard a boat near the archipelago and vanished. Authorities said the 59-year-old man whom…
John Levy and his wife, Donna May Levy
Published 16 hours ago

‘A traumatic experience’… Former West Indies Petroleum director and wife freed in larceny case involving motor vehicle

Former Director of West Indies Petroleum Limited (WIPL) John Levy and his wife, Donna May Levy, have been freed of criminal charges surrounding a motor vehicle, asserting that they were subjected to…
Michael Patterson
Updated 16 hours ago

Update | Murder and robbery charges laid against two in death of inDriver/UTech engineering student

Murder and other charges have now been laid against the two people in custody in relation to the death of the man whose decomposing body was found in a canal in Hartlands, St Catherine in February. …