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In this 2009 photo students are seen holding posters of Raul Castro and Fidel Castro, and chanting slogans during a march to mark the 48th anniversary of the triumph of Cuban forces during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, in Havana.
December 9, 2025

Lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during Cuban missile crisis

Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world back from the brink of nuclear war by staring down Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev over the Cuban missile crisis. At…
Heavy rains and tropical-storm-force winds are affecting eastern parishes, including Portland, St Thomas, and sections of Kingston, St Andrew, and St Catherine, as Hurricane Melissa moved closer to the island on October 26, 2025.
December 9, 2025

Eastern Jamaica feeling Hurricane Melissa’s growing fury

Jamaica has begun to experience the effects of powerful Hurricane Melissa, which strengthened overnight into a Category 4 system, packing maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. Heavy rains…
The police had made a public appeal to Maine, a taxi operator, to report to the nearest police station.
December 9, 2025

Police hunt driver in fatal Portmore hit-and-run

The St Catherine South police are searching for the driver involved in a hit-and-run crash on Sunday that claimed the life of an 80-year-old man. The deceased has been identified as Roy Pickersgill…
Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio (aka Bad Bunny) attends the première of ‘Caught Stealing’ at Regal Union Square on August 26, 2025, in New York.
December 9, 2025

Bad Bunny top winner at Billboard Latin Music Awards

MIAMI (AP): His presence had remained a mystery, but Bad Bunny was there in person Thursday night to receive all the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards that were given to him, including the special…
Police officers look for clues by a basket lift used by thieves at the Louvre museum in Paris.
December 9, 2025

Louvre theft could make stolen Crown Jewels as famous as Mona Lisa

PARIS (AP): The robbery at the Louvre has done what no marketing campaign ever could: It has catapulted France’s dusty Crown Jewels – long admired at home, little known abroad – to global fame. One…
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters, who reportedly withdrew from Turkey with their weapons, stand to attention during a ceremony in the Qandil area of northern Iraq.
December 9, 2025

Kurdish rebel group PKK says it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey

QANDIL (AP): A militant Kurdish group announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to Iraq, as part of a peace effort with the Turkish government. The statement delivered in…
The cargo aircraft that skidded off a Hong Kong airport runway.
December 9, 2025

Main wreckage of cargo plane recovered from waters after deadly crash

HONG KONG (AP): The main wreckage of a cargo plane that veered off a Hong Kong runway and plunged into the sea was recovered from the waters on Sunday, days after the deadly crash. The Boeing 747,…
From left: Collette Barham of the Ministry of Labour; Arianne Hammond; Nora Blake, manager at the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange; Eton Pearcy, Jam Rock Events; Tanisha Pitters-Montaque, principal, Windward Road Primary School; Nkoya McLeod and Tamikee Walsh
December 9, 2025

Concert promoter fulfils dreams to assist alma mater

Chief executive officer of Jam Rock Events, Eton Pearcy, always had a dream to give back to his alma mater, Windward Road Primary School. Pearcy, who benefited from meals provided by the school, says…
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Juliet Holness, Chief Hansard Reporter, Carl Bryan (centre), and Clerk to the Houses of Parliament, Colleen Lowe, lead the Opening Ceremony for Orientation of Members of Parliament at Gordon House.
December 9, 2025

Conduct and responsibilities of the Speaker of the House

THE EDITOR, Madam: As a citizen of Jamaica, I am compelled to express my deep disappointment and concern regarding the Speaker of the House’s recent conduct in the Speaker’s chair. The office the…