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December 9, 2025

Can devices cause anxiety?

THE EDITOR, Madam:
Trump ... destroying the international rules-based system, flawed though it may be.
December 9, 2025

Elizabeth Morgan | Is indiscipline stifling development?

Heeding discipline shows the way to life – The book of Proverbs Without discipline there is no life. – Katharine Hepburn
December 9, 2025

Gabriel Agbo | Just before you give up

YOU ARE at the eve of your miracle. That is why things are getting extremely rough. Don’t give up now, please! Push on! You are about to break forth.
December 9, 2025

Dwight Fletcher | The Peter pattern of self-forgiveness

LAST WEEK, we discussed Judas Iscariot whose self-unforgiveness led to his decision to take his own life. Judas betrayed Jesus, and instead of letting go of his guilt and shame, he allowed the lies of…
Orlando Bennett (left) and Tyler Mason. - Gladstone Taylor photo
December 9, 2025

Jamaica earns silver and bronze medals in men’s sprint hurdles

Jamaica picked up a pair of medals in the men’s 110-metre hurdles at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships as Orlando Bennett led compatriot Tyler Mason in second and third place finishes at the…
Rusheen ‘Big Boy’ McDonald (centre) competing in the men's 400m at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships.
December 9, 2025

McDonald eyes 400m glory

Jamaican 400-metre national champion and record holder Rusheen ‘Big Boy’ McDonald says he is eyeing a special performance in the final of the men’s 400m at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships. …
Robert Redford attends the premiere of "The Old Man and the Gun" at the Paris Theater on Thursday, September 20, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
December 9, 2025

Robert Redford, Oscar-winning actor, director and indie patriarch, dies at 89

Robert Redford, the Hollywood golden boy who became an Oscar-winning director, liberal activist and godfather for independent cinema under the name of one of his best-loved characters, died Tuesday at…
Tyler Mason - Gladstone Taylor photo
December 9, 2025

Bennett, Mason advance to 110m hurdles final; Prince misses out by thousandths of a second

Two of Jamaica’s three sprint hurdlers will compete in the final of the men’s 110-metre hurdles at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships after the end of the semifinal round. Orlando Bennett set…
Navasky Anderson - Gladstone Taylor photo
December 9, 2025

Tyrice Taylor, Navasky Anderson through to men's 800m semis

Jamaica will field two competitors in the men’s 800 metres semifinals at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships as national record holder Tyrice Taylor and Navasky Anderson both advanced from their…