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Orah Teller-Miszrahi
December 9, 2025

Update | American woman returns home after being reported missing

The police say 21-one-year-old American Orah Teller-Miszrahi who was reported missing on Friday has returned home. The police say she is said to be in good health. The May Pen police had stated…
December 9, 2025 by Christopher Thomas

China-trained doctors in limbo

WESTERN BUREAU: Several Jamaican doctors, who got their training in China, are alleging that they cannot secure placements here in Jamaica for their internships despite making multiple applications.…
Bryan Levell of Jamaica celebrates bronze in the men’s 200m finals at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 held at the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday Levell took the bronze in a time of 19.64, a personal best.
December 9, 2025 by Gregory Bryce

‘Nothing to be ashamed of’

JAMAICA PICKED up a pair of bronze medals at the end of day eight at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships, with Bryan Levell and Shericka Jackson finishing third in the men’s and women’s 200…
Senior Superintendent Wayne Cameron.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett and Jovan Johnson

Cameron alleges political victimisation; Chang denies claims

Senior Superintendent of Police Wayne Cameron has accused National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang and Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake of harassment and political victimisation, according to an…
Rashad Smith.
December 9, 2025 by Ruddy Mathison

St Catherine community shaken after 5 shot in deadly attack

The Jamaica Constabulary Force yesterday indicated that it was following significant leads into Thursday night’s drive-by shooting in Portsmouth, St Catherine, which left one man dead and four others…
Dr Samar Rodriguez last saw her five-year-old daughter, Tau Kleio Rodriguez-Fairplay, seven months ago.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

Where’s my daughter?

It has been more than six months since Dr Samar Rodriguez, a London-based academic, last saw her five-year-old daughter, Tau Kleio Rodriguez-Fairplay. Tau was abducted in February from her home in the…
December 9, 2025 by Adrian Frater

Dementia and a family’s unhealed wound

WESTERN BUREAU: On the morning of November 5, 2005, Janice’s mother, diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s, walked away from home and disappeared, much to the distress of the six surviving of her…
From left: Rhoda Moy Crawford, Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert and Abka Fitz-Henley.
December 9, 2025

Rhoda Moy Crawford and Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert and Abka Fitz-Henley among new state ministers

Member of Parliament for Manchester Central Rhoda Moy Crawford, former House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert and Senator Abka Fitz-Henley are among the new state ministers named by Prime Minister…
A court date is being finalised.
December 9, 2025

Deportee arrested on arrival in Jamaica

A man who fled Jamaica while on bail for murder was arrested at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Thursday after being deported from the United States of America. He is 24-…