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Then Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (right) poses with birthday girl Pamela Redwood at her party in this January 2013 photo.
December 9, 2025

Ode to Portia

Pamela Redwood has worked closely with Portia for more than 30 years. Following the disclosure by Simpson Miller’s husband that his wife is suffering from dementia, Redwood paid the following tribute…
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…
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December 9, 2025

Court acquits pump attendants in alleged credit card scam

Five pump attendants implicated in a debit and credit card scam that defrauded customers of more than $1.1 million have been freed of fraud charges. The women, who were initially charged with…
House Clerk Colleen Lowe (right) administers the oath of allegiance as Keith Duncan is sworn in as a government senator in Gordon House on Thursday.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

‘I’M A FREE THINKER’

Government Senator Keith Duncan has declared that he is a “free thinker” who is “not bound by any one political organisation”. Further, Duncan said the policies of the governing Jamaica Labour Party…