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January 11, 2026
Top lifestyle stories for 2025
In a year marked by challenges, Lifestyle readers chose hope – and love – again and again. Our Top 20 stories of 2025 reveal an unmistakable theme: Island Wedding reigned supreme as tales of…
January 11, 2026
by Lee Cronin
Chemistry is stuck in the dark ages – ‘chemputation’ can bring it into the digital world
Chemistry deals with that most fundamental subject: matter. New drugs, materials, and batteries all depend on our ability to make new molecules. But discovery of new substances is slow, expensive, and…
January 11, 2026
Top reggae and dancehall artistes for 2025
This year, as we sat with our panellists, Sean ‘Contractor Edwards and Claude Mills, to reflect on and select the top artistes for 2025, they were asked to ‘speak the truth and shame the devil’. And…
January 11, 2026
Cases to watch for 2026
Tesha Miller awaits outcome of appeal The Court of Appeal heard a case from incarcerated convict Tesha Miller, who is seeking to quash his conviction for the 2008 murder of Douglas Chambers, the…
January 11, 2026
by Tanesha Mundle
The 2025 Court Year in Review
The wheels of justice turned relentlessly in 2025, producing decisions that reshaped constitutional boundaries, tested the limits of state authority, and reaffirmed the judiciary’s role as guardian of…
January 11, 2026
Reggae and Dancehall Top 15
The year 2025 was a mixed bag musically. It appeared that dancehall was the predominant genre and reggae was lagging behind. It was much easier to have dialogue with selectors who could easily list…
January 11, 2026
Three make or break business decisions for 2026
In a few weeks, we will receive one of the most-telling economic signals since Hurricane Melissa, the release of the fourth-quarter 2025 JCC Business and Consumer Confidence Surveys conducted by…
January 11, 2026
Opening dates of two new PriceSmart clubs in Jamaica pushed back by Melissa
PriceSmart Inc said Thursday that the opening of two new warehouse clubs in Jamaica has been pushed back following disruptions tied to Hurricane Melissa last October. The membership-based retailer…
January 11, 2026
The Power of Financial Literacy
Even people who are otherwise very literate can be financially illiterate; it shows in how poorly they manage their financial affairs. Financial literacy, though, gives power to realise personal goals…