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Great Bay Beach located in Great Bay, St Elizabeth
December 9, 2025

Fisherman drowns in Treasure Beach

The Pedro Plains police in St Elizabeth have launched an investigation into the death of a fisherman who drowned in the parish on Thursday. He has been identified as 29-year-old Damian Davis of…
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December 9, 2025

Gordon Robinson | Change is in the air

At 20 Belmont Road and a stone’s throw (well, maybe two throws) away, at 89 Old Hope Road, winds of change are blowing. JLP’s focus on change was signalled by dissolution of an ill-advised Legal and…
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December 9, 2025

Garth Minott | A budget is a moral document

Budgets are moral documents. This is the title of an article by Catholic priest Fr. Travis Russell. A criminal justice policy advisor for the Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology in the…
In this May 27, 2015 file photo two persons are reflected in the FIFA logo at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.
December 9, 2025

FIFA sanctions Malaysia for fielding foreign-born players with fake documents

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA has sanctioned the Football Association of Malaysia after finding documents submitted to naturalise seven foreign-born players were doctored. The players — Gabriel Felipe Arrocha,…
Dennis Minott
December 9, 2025

Dennis Minott | Harmful buffoonery

Behind the neat rows of school timetables lies harmful buffoonery, where pools-timetabling locks children’s dreams into cages and wastes national talent.
In this September 2025 photo, members of parliament are seen at a sitting in Gordon House.
December 9, 2025

Mark Wignall | When democracy slips away

The present White House led by Donald Trump is devouring democracy and doing it with glee and much haste. Here in Jamaica we gave it our special birth, our special nurturing and when it veered off…
Members of parliament of the Jamaica Labour Party, led by Dr Andrew Holness arrive for the swearing-in ceremony at Gordon House.
December 9, 2025

Imani Tafari-Ama | Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown

Multiple thoughts must have swirled around in Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness‘ mind as he took the oath of office for the fourth time in his elongated political career. Did it occur to him in those…
The prime minister and members of his cabinet pose for a photo: In front row (from left) are: Desmond McKenzie; Dr. Horace Chang; Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness; Olivia Grange; Robert Montague. Second row: Daryl Vaz; Pearnel Charles Jr; Audrey Marks; Dan
December 9, 2025

Jalil Dabdoub | Cabinet bloat and the crisis of entitlement

The recent Cabinet appointments, along with the insolent walkout by veteran member of parliament (MP) Everald Warmington, apparently in protest to his omission from same, expose the entitlement and…
Angela Huyue Zhang
December 9, 2025

Angela Huyue Zhang | A TikTok deal China will love

After four extensions of the statutory deadline to ban TikTok or force its Chinese owners to divest, president of the United States, Donald Trump, has now signed an executive order transferring the…