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Jamaica Music Museum Director/Curator Herbie Miller addressing patrons, including Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange, at the opening of the exhibition, ‘From African to Jamaican: Music and Creolized Black Culture’, insid
December 9, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

African to Jamaican: Music and Creolized Black Culture exhibition officially opened

SINCE FEBRUARY, the Jamaica Music Museum (JaMM) has been giving access to the public to its exhibition, ‘African to Jamaican: Music and Creolized Black Culture’, in its main gallery situated inside…
Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels
December 9, 2025 by Bryan Miller

Sister city partnership forged between Negril and Zanzibar City in Tanzania

Western Bureau: Everything is now in place for the formalisation of the twinning of the resort town of Negril, in western Jamaica, and Zanzibar City, in the United Republic of Tanzania through a…
Access Financial Services Founder and Executive Director Marcus James (left) presents the inaugural AFS Marcus James Scholarship for Entrepreneurship cheque to recipient Alfred Fuller, a first-year University of Technology, Jamaica, student, who is pursuin
December 9, 2025

GoodHeart | From selling sweets to higher purpose and education

At just 19 years old, Alfred Fuller has already lived a life characterised by sheer grit, resilience and vision, proving on Wednesday that perseverance can turn struggle into opportunity. The…
KQualiti launched his recording career in 2018 and is currently working on projects with Blacker Dread out of the UK and Stackz&Brixxx Records.
December 9, 2025

KQualiti kicks hard with ‘Van Persi’

The cultural synergy between dancehall music and football is undeniable, intertwined through shared origins in black culture, fashion and lifestyle. Football has always been a sport providing…
In this November 6, 2023 photo, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, appears on stage with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI’s first developer conference, in San Francisco.
December 9, 2025

OpenAI, Microsoft reach new agreement to change corporate structure

OpenAI has reached a new tentative agreement with Microsoft and said its non-profit, which technically controls its business, will now be given a US$100 billion equity stake in its for-profit…
A student types a prompt into ChatGPT on a Chromebook during class on August 27, 2025.
December 9, 2025

Rise of AI tools forcing schools to reconsider what counts as cheating

Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat. “The cheating…
Science-loving highschooler Kayla Kerr aspires to establish her own Jamaican-based bioengineering firm within the next 20 years.
December 9, 2025

GoodHeart | Alums help Kayla Kerr attend robotics championship in Texas

As she begins her final year at Campion College, upper-sixth former Kayla Kerr is focused on what lies ahead. “Career-wise, I would want to go into bioengineering, but I also have a great deal of…
Mohamed El-Erian
December 9, 2025

Mohamed El-Erian | Powell’s last chance to protect the Fed

As Jerome Powell approaches the end of his term as chair of the US Federal Reserve in May 2026, the central bank’s standing is lower – and its vulnerability greater – than it has been in decades. This…
This cover image released by Capitol Records shows ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)’ by Calum Scott and Whitney Houston.
December 9, 2025

A new Whitney Houston duet? How Calum Scott made a song with late star

NEW YORK (AP): It sounds impossible, but that’s the magic of it. On Thursday, a new Whitney Houston song arrives 13 years after her death. English singer Calum Scott is responsible. The single is a…