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December 9, 2025

Incentives and disparity in education

THE EDITOR, Madam: The compensation review package for teachers and restructuring of the teacher’s hierarchy could lead to an exodus of teachers which underscore low performance, which has…
Joan Phillips-Bennett
December 9, 2025

Educator advocates for persons with exceptionalities

On August 31, Joan Phillips-Bennett, also known as Ade Nima, launched the first episode of her newly rebranded the Empower Exceptionalities Jamaica (EEJ) Podcast. The journey to this point has been…

Carlton ‘Buggy’ Watson, another resident, claimed to have planted breadfruit trees on the land and said he had occupied it for more than two decades.
December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

'I don't make it bother me'

A decades-long dispute between retired politician Pearnel Charles Sr and residents in Old Pera, St Thomas, has flared up once again, sparking verbal confrontations and threats of displacement. The…
Letters
December 9, 2025

Urgent need to deploy body-cams

THE EDITOR, Madam: This is an open letter to Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding. I am writing with reference to the article, “INDECOM rings body-cam alarm again as…
Letters
December 9, 2025

Letter of the Day | One swift rescue, but thousands still in danger

THE EDITOR, Madam: The recent action by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) to remove the children of TikToker June ‘Rosalee’ Dixon after her own alarming online statements is a…
In this  photo, Joy Mc Kenzie- Johnson is seen selling vegetables at Coronation Market, downtown Kingston.
December 9, 2025

Máximo Torero | Food inflation a key challenge to sustain achievements of the region

Just a few years ago, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of families in Latin America and the Caribbean did not know whether they would have enough food for the next day. The shutdown of…
December 9, 2025

Caroline Fredrickson | Social justice – key to shared prosperity

Thirty years ago, 186 countries met in Copenhagen for the first Social Summit for Social Development. The gathering was the largest meeting of world leaders ever at the time. By the end of the summit,…
Rose Hall Developments, the St James Municipal Corporation and residents of Spot Valley and adjoining communities united to clean up the Rose Hall Beach in Montego Bay.
December 9, 2025

Rose Hall Developments leads major beach cleanup, boosts community action

In a robust display of environmental stewardship, Rose Hall Developments spearheaded a major coastal cleanup Saturday morning, galvanising community participation in collaboration with the St James…
Spanish Town Hospital.
December 9, 2025

Man shot dead by police after knife attack at Spanish Town Hospital

The Independent Commission of Investigations is probing the fatal shooting by the police of a man who reportedly attacked another with a knife on the grounds of the Spanish Town Hospital in St…