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Children wait their turn to play inside the bouncy castle at a back-to-school treat in Clark’s Town, Clarendon.
December 9, 2025

Clark’s Town community fêted with back-to-school treat

The Clarks Town community in Porus, Manchester, hosted a vibrant back-to-school treat on August 27, themed “We Rise By Lifting Others.” As children prepared for the new school year, they enjoyed a day…
Shanieka Ricketts in action during the qualification round of the women's triple jump at the World Athletics Championships inside the Japan National Stadium earlier today.
December 9, 2025 by Keith McGhie

Ricketts, Smith comfortably into triple jump final

Shanieka Ricketts and Ackelia Smith comfortably made it through women's triple jump qualifying, despite neither managing the 14.35 metres required for automatic progression. As three South…
Letters
December 9, 2025

Why no live coverage of netball?

THE EDITOR, Madam: Much has been written about gender issues, from violence against women, the opening of a gender-based violence centre, to closing the gender pay gap. There is even a ministry and…
December 9, 2025

Toddler, 25-y-o man killed in drive-by shooting in Kingston 20

A two-year-old boy and a 25-year-old man were killed in a drive-by shooting along Grenmeade Road, Kingston 20, Monday night. The toddler has been identified as Tajaun Jackson of a Nannyville, St…
Golding ... shows promise – brains, steadiness, and a willingness to be his own man.
December 9, 2025

Norris R. McDonald | ‘Ketchie-Shubbie’ politics, the youth and PNP’s identity crisis!

ON SEPTEMBER 3, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) secured another term. From his vantage point, the victory felt hard-fought and well-earned. Opposition Leader Mark…
Letters
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…