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December 9, 2025
The nest is empty
It’s that time of year when many parents see their kids head off to college or leave home to start their working lives. For parents and guardians, experts say, the separation from their children can…
December 9, 2025
Poems
Set me free I am walking out because I must flee Before sadness opens the grave and swallow me I am leaving not to be with someone else I am leaving you for me, its time to uproot the tree Because the…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | It’s the JAAA again …
The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) is prone to unforced error and own-goals that disenfranchise athletes. And unless the JAAA can mount a compelling case to the contrary, it seems…
December 9, 2025
Study identifies US$1.3b in potential savings through CARICOM import diversification amid US tariffs
The CARICOM Private Sector Organization (CPSO) has estimated that CARICOM member states could achieve annual savings of US$1.3 billion by diversifying their import sources away from the United States,…
December 9, 2025
Dream House | Bengal Beach Beauty: A childhood dream restored
A beachfront home is considered worldwide as the most romantic, intriguing and restful place to call home, and this one, occupying part of Bengal Beach, in Rio Bueno, near the border of Trelawny and…
December 9, 2025
by Christopher Thomas
Permits required to rear animals within MoBay’s city limits, says mayor
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon has indicated that residents may rear animals within the city’s limits but they must do so in a way that does not disrupt their communities and only…
December 9, 2025
VP Foundation and UWI launch ECEM Scholarship
On Tuesday, the Vincent and Patricia VP Foundation, in partnership with the Institute of Caribbean Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies, Mona, officially…
December 9, 2025
by Adrian Frater
Crime down to a trickle
Western Bureau: With 55 fewer murders than the corresponding period last year, Senior Superintendent Eron Samuels, the police commander for St James, drew appreciative laughter at Thursday’s monthly…
December 9, 2025
by Paul H. Williams
Captured, and arrived in Jamaica
TWO SUNDAYS ago, we conclude Part I with: “The distinction of his funeral was conveyed not only by the attendance of white landowners, who turned up at the funerals of black elites, such as…