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December 9, 2025
Peter Espeut | Exoneration? Not at all!
According to the Oxford Dictionary, the word “exonerate” means “to absolve from blame for fault or wrongdoing”. The Merriam-Webster dictionary from the other side of the pond defines it as “to clear…
December 9, 2025
Kristen Gyles | Public sector politics
What exactly constitutes political activities? Dr Aujae Dixon, a Jamaican junior doctor, who participated in the September 3 general election as the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for the…
December 9, 2025
Man dead after New Kingston apartment fire
A fire at the Gallery Apartment in New Kingston reportedly claimed the life of a 74-year-old man on Thursday morning. Several apartments were damaged by the early morning inferno. Firefighters were…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Embrace INDECOM’s report
This week’s special report by the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) on fatal shootings by the police during planned police operations (PPO) is probably discomfiting reading for the…
December 9, 2025
The battle of restricting kids’ screen time
THE EDITOR, Madam:
December 9, 2025
Letter of the Day | More must be done to address pregnancy and infant loss
THE EDITOR, Madam: October is observed as Breast Cancer Awareness, but this month is also the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. In 2019, Jamaica became the first country in the Caribbean to…
December 9, 2025
Driver escapes serious injury in crash allegedly caused by spilled construction material
A minivan driver narrowly escaped serious injury after his vehicle skidded off the White Horses main road, in the vicinity of Shady Spring, in St Thomas, before slamming into a nearby ditch. Police…
December 9, 2025
FLA seizes firearm of alleged soldier involved in road rage incident
The Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) has seized the gun of a man, believed to be a soldier, who was caught on video assaulting another man during a road rage incident along Constant Spring Road in St…
December 9, 2025
by Ainsley Walters
Unspun, Fearless Force dangerous over I’msatisfied trip
UNITED States-bred UNSPUN and FEARLESS FORCE pack the finishing power to upstage Jason DaCosta’s local-bred speedsters, MAMMA MIA and CALIFORNIA CROWN, in Saturday’s I’msatisfied Trophy at six…