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December 9, 2025
Hundreds of Jamaicans mark Caribbean Wellness Day
Hundreds of Jamaicans took part in the country’s planned activities to mark Caribbean Wellness Day on Saturday, September 13. Annually, the second Saturday in September is used as the regional…
December 9, 2025
Aaron Silk issues call to action with new single
For the period 2020-2024, approximately 168 Jamaican children were murdered; from 2019 – 2023, 619 women were killed. Statistics from 2023 show that more than 80 per cent of Jamaica’s murder victims…
December 9, 2025
Earth Today | Fires driving air quality crisis
AT A time of prevailing concerns over air quality and public health, a recent publication of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned of the dangers of fire as a significant source of…
December 9, 2025
Cardi B is pregnant with her fourth child
NEW YORK (AP) — Cardi B is pregnant with her fourth child. It will be her first with boyfriend Stefon Diggs, the New England Patriots' wide receiver. The Grammy Award-winning rapper revealed…
December 9, 2025
Trump's second state visit to the UK meets with protests and arrests
LONDON (AP) — US President Donald Trump received a royal reception at Windsor Castle on Wednesday, but beyond the castle walls many others did not welcome his unprecedented second state visit. …
December 9, 2025
Haitians yearn for home as gangs welcome them and police warn it’s too dangerous
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Naika and Erica Lafleur stared at a pile of rubble where their house once stood in Haiti’s capital and began to cry. Their mother had instructed the two sisters, ages 10 and 13,…
December 9, 2025
Trump’s second state visit to the UK meets with protests and arrests
LONDON (AP): US President Donald Trump received a royal reception at Windsor Castle on Wednesday, but beyond the castle walls many others did not welcome his unprecedented second state visit.…
December 9, 2025
INDECOM probing police fatal shooting in Lakes Pen, St Catherine
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has launched a probe into the fatal shooting of a man by the police following an alleged armed confrontation in St Catherine on Tuesday. He has…
December 9, 2025
Basil Jarrett | Don’t sit on it – your prostate will thank you
SOME DAYS ago, I had to visit a friend at the Tony Thwaites Wing (TTW) of the University Hospital of the West Indies. TTW has always puzzled me. For years, it had sort of developed a reputation as the…