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Veronica Richards-Whittaker beams with pride, following her first place win at the 2026 National Senior Spelling Bee Champion held on Thursday.
Updated 7 hours ago by Yasmine Peru

GoodHeart | Senior Spelling Bee champion gets every word right

On Thursday, Veronica Richards-Whittaker entered the ballroom of The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston with one goal, to become the 2026 National Senior Spelling Bee Champion and take the trophy…
Updated 5 hours ago

Editorial | Listening to deaf citizens

September, observed as Deaf Awareness Month, offers Jamaica an opportunity to examine how well the country is serving its deaf citizens. Deaf Jamaicans may have the legal right to education,…
Letters
Published 11 hours ago

Letter of the Day | Why do banks treat people with impunity and disrespect?

THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing to help the public understand what is happening in the banks in Jamaica. Customers and businesspeople are at the mercy of the banks, which treat them with impunity and…
Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, providing an update on visitor arrivals and tourism earnings during a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank in St Andrew on Wednesday, September 2.
Published 11 hours ago by Albert Ferguson

Bartlett appeals for authentic Jamaican souvenirs

WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is challenging Jamaica’s craft vendors and artisans to move away from imported souvenirs and seek to create authentic Jamaican products that showcase…
A man repairs air conditioners on the street in Lagos, Nigeria,.
Published 11 hours ago

Ronald Sanders | The world has broken the 1.5°C promise

The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it…
June Spence Jarrett, executive director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), presents a school bag and other school supplies to a child at JADCO’s back-to-school treat held at the Siloah New Testament Church of God in St Elizabeth on August 29.
Published 11 hours ago

More than 200 benefit from JADCO’s back-to-school treat in Siloah

More than 200 parents and children were fêted and gifted school supplies by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) at its back-to-school treat in Siloah, St Elizabeth on August 29. The community…
This image, released by Universal Pictures, shows Matt Damon as Odysseus and Zendaya as Athena, in a scene from ‘The Odyssey’.
Published 11 hours ago

Early predictions for the 2027 Oscar race

NEW YORK (AP): Fall movie season also means Oscar season. It might be only just September but the jockeying for next March’s Academy Awards is well underway. Movies first started revving up their…
Deputy Prime Minister Dr Horace Chang (left) examines the proposed design for the Old Fort Craft Market in Montego Bay with Jamaica Social Investment Fund Managing Director Omar Sweeney.
Published 11 hours ago by Albert Ferguson

Chang wants major craft centre on the north coast

WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Prime Minister Dr Horace Chang is calling for the development of a major craft centre along Jamaica’s north coast as the country seeks to expand its craft industry and create…
Updated 7 hours ago

Tony Deyal | Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink

Last week, having chosen the great Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name ‘Mark Twain’, an American writer, humourist and essayist, people liked it so much that I was asked to continue with a…