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Last-minute labour agreements averted disruptions to public transport and postal services on New Year’s Eve, allowing thousands of Jamaicans to move freely and take part in holiday celebrations across the island. With key services...
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Education Minister Florizel Glasspole has outlined sweeping plans to strengthen Jamaica’s education system, with a focus on improving effectiveness rather than expanding institutions. Speaking at the Jamaica Teachers’ Association...
Often passed through by travellers on the southern highway, Lacovia reveals itself as a quietly charming and picturesque town for those who take time to look. With its broad roadway, spacious sidewalks, historic church, and traces of an early...
Walter Boyd emerged as the decisive figure in Jamaica’s 2-1 victory over Mexico, sealing the result with a superbly struck free kick in the 83rd minute at the National Stadium. Introduced at half-time, Boyd brought renewed energy and...
As Jamaicans rang in 1974, dance floors and nightclubs across Kingston came alive with music, movement and celebration. From elegant hotel balls to pulsating club scenes, revellers welcomed the new year in high spirits, carried by the sounds of...
MELBOURNE: While the ocean’s health is perilously close to a tipping point, 2025 offered reasons for hope. In fact, over the next five years, we have an opportunity to pull back from the brink and ensure that the ocean continues to stabilise...
WASHINGTON, DC: “There’s no question about it,” US President Donald Trump said at this month’s FIFA World Cup Final Draw ceremony: The game that Americans call soccer “is football”, and the United States has to...
WASHINGTON, DC: Twice in the last century, the foundations of global finance shifted, because the burden placed on the machinery of money became unsustainable. Today, we are witnessing another shift, driven by the rise of stablecoins, tokenised...
OXFORD: Grim as the final month of 2025 has been – with headlines dominated by mass shootings, crises, and polarisation – one positive development offers a glimmer of hope for the coming year. Across the developing world, younger people...
NEW YORK : Writing about 2025 from an American perspective is both easy and difficult. It is easy because there is so much to choose from. And it is difficult for the same reason. On the domestic front, even a short list would include: the longest-...
The Ministry of Education has rejected assertions by the Jamaica Teachers’ Association that schools are being forced into a January reopening without consultation, insisting that reopening decisions have always rested with principals based on...
St Elizabeth Divisional Commander Coleridge Minto has commended officers for their persistence and coordination following the arrest of Andre Daniels, who had been on the run for 14 years over a double murder. Minto praised the Criminal...
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Jamaica North South Highway Company Limited and China Harbour Engineering Company Limited were negligent in connection with a 2015 crash on the North-South Highway, ordering them to pay truck driver Leon Mais...
A St Andrew grandmother has raised concern and anguish after her teenage grandson was charged and sent through the courts for a sexual offence arising from what she says was a consensual relationship between two minors of the same age. While...
Juliet Holness has publicly thrown her support behind Clerk to the Houses of Parliament Colleen Lowe following a damning Auditor General’s report that flagged procurement breaches tied to multimillion-dollar projects at Gordon House. Speaking...
The Financial Investigation Division (Financial Investigation Division) has pushed back against public criticism of the pace of its nearly three-year investigation into the alleged multibillion-dollar fraud at Stocks & Securities Limited,...
