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December 9, 2025
Earth Today | ‘Where the city meets the sea’
The lecture is being hosted under the theme ‘Where the City meets the sea: Unlocking Downtown Waterfront as a public space and economic asset’ by the Pan Jamaica Group and the C.B. Facey Foundation.…
December 9, 2025
Earth Today | Small island developing states insist on special consideration
THE ALLIANCE of Small Island Developing States (AOSIS) has further elevated the advocacy of their members for the recognition and consistent application of the “special circumstances of SIDS” in…
December 9, 2025
Earth Today | Upcoming Adaptation Futures conference to showcase resilience
WITH A strong focus on the Pacific region, the 8th Adaptation Futures Conference is set to take place in New Zealand from October 13-16, and is to spotlight some of the most pressing adaptation…
December 9, 2025
December 9, 2025
by Lester Hinds
NEW VISA FEE KICKS IN
NEW YORK: Effective immediately, Jamaicans applying for visitor, student, or work visas to the United States must now pay an additional US$250 visa surcharge, bringing the total cost of a standard…
December 9, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
GUILTY
Former INSPORTS financial controller and party promoter Andrew Wright, along with two co-defendants, was found guilty of multiple fraud-related charges yesterday in the Home Circuit Court, stemming…
December 9, 2025
by Livern Barrett
DPP mulls appeal after ‘lenient’ sentence in endangered animal smuggling case
The country’s prosecutorial authority is contemplating whether to lodge an appeal against what environmental watchers call a “tap on the back” sentence imposed on three men – two of them Honduran…
December 9, 2025
by Paul H. Williams
Scheed Cole behind the magic at Natural History Museum exhibition gallery
“O N SUNDAY, August 31, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange officially opened the Natural History Museum of Jamaica (NHMJ) Exhibition Gallery, by way of a…
December 9, 2025
All Justices of the Peace to receive new national seal by March 2026
By March 2026, all Justices of the Peace (JPs) are expected to be in possession of the newly designed seal, which features the word ‘Jamaica’ in place of individual parish names. This was disclosed…