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This photo provided by the San Bernardino County Fire Department shows damage caused by mudslides after storms in Forest Falls, Calif., on Thursday September 18, 2025. (San Bernardino County Fire Department via AP)
December 9, 2025

Mudslides trap drivers, bury roads and damage homes in southern California

OAK GLEN, California (AP) — Mudslides and debris flows knocked down trees, ploughed into homes and trapped drivers for 10 hours after several Southern California communities were hit by heavy rain,…
Dorothea Gordon-Smith, co-founder and head of Garbage Disposal & Sanitation Systems Limited.
December 9, 2025 by Neville Graham

GDSS prepping for succession

After five decades at the helm of one of Jamaica’s private and community-rooted waste management companies, Dorothea Gordon-Smith is preparing to hand over the reins of Garbage Disposal &…
The main mahogany staircase rises in elegance to the next level.
December 9, 2025 by Barry Rattray

Dream House | Inside India House: Diplomacy meets culture in St Andrew

We marvel at the unforgettable richness of a civilisation more than 5,000 years old – India, a country of nearly 1.5 billion people that has long been a source of adventure, romance, and spiritual…
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December 9, 2025

Nutramix donates canteen, poultry house to Baxter’s Mountain Primary

The Baxter’s Mountain Primary School family in St. Mary is celebrating new opportunities after a canteen, tuck shop, and poultry house populated with 150 ready-to- lay hens were donated by feed brand…
The St Ann’s Bay Criminal Investigation Branch is probing the incident. - File Photo
December 9, 2025

Five shot in Portsmouth, one fatally

Police in the St Catherine South division are searching for hoodlums who fatally shot one man and wounded four others in the Portsmouth community in Portmore on Thursday night. Dead is 19-year-old …
Dr Romario Hart, the medical officer of health at the St Catherine Health Department, addressing a Zoom forum on prostate cancer.
December 9, 2025 by Christopher Thomas

Mandatory prostate cancer screening unlikely, says medical officer

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Romario Hart, the medical officer of health at the St Catherine Health Department, says that while men should be proactive in getting regular prostate cancer screenings, he does not…
The work of Alao Luqman Omotayo is displayed inside the Library Multifunctional Room at The University of the West Indies, Mona campus, for the Conversations with Olive Senior Book Launch event.
December 9, 2025 by Michael Reckord

Olive Senior launches second novel at UWI

“My writing is my life,” Olive Senior, one of Jamaica’s most celebrated writers, told the packed Library Multifunctional Room at The University of the West Indies, Mona, on Thursday evening. In the…
Chaka Khan.
December 9, 2025

All hail the ‘Queens’

NEW YORK (AP): Patti LaBelle didn’t envision a six-decade career when she entered the music business at 14 years old. But 67 years later, she doesn’t take it for granted, acknowledging the fragility…
Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States, Major General (Ret’d) Antony Anderson (right), receives a cheque for US$100,000 from Lisa Brown Alexander (second left), a Howard alum and owner of Wellspring Manor & Spa in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, on behalf
December 9, 2025 by Derrick Scott

Diaspora group awards $107,000 in scholarships

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Twenty-six students of Jamaican heritage attending Howard University were awarded scholarships totalling US$107,000 at the Jamaica Howard University Affinity Network’s (JHUAN)…