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December 9, 2025
by Janet Silvera
Chinese community secures $100m in hurricane relief support for western Jamaica
Western Bureau: The Chinese community in western Jamaica has secured more than $100 million in aid support to help families left homeless by Hurricane Melissa, dispatching busloads of care packages…
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December 9, 2025
Reclaiming peace from the electronic world
In today’s digital age, our lives revolve about screens, signals, and switches. From the moment we wake up to the time we fall asleep, technology remains one of our closest companion. We depend on it…
December 9, 2025
90,000 families in Western Jamaica impacted by Hurricane Melissa
Approximately 90,000 families in western Jamaica were directly affected by the passage of Hurricane Melissa on October 28. This is according to the initial damage assessment by Office of Disaster…
December 9, 2025
Gov’t to help small community shops to reopen, including loaning them generators
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says the Government is working on a plan to get the local economy in hurricane-affected areas back up and running, arguing that having community shops operational is…
December 9, 2025
Neil Richards | Consequences of building on very dangerous sites
There is a fatal attraction to the practice of building on dangerous sites that seem to be ‘easy pickings’ for unauthorised occupation. Persons who squat on public or private land, seem to be embolden…
December 9, 2025
Patrick Robinson | Track and field athletics is number one
Jamaica has been placed in what is, perhaps, the weakest qualification group – Jamaica, Bermuda, Curaçao and Trinidad and Tobago – ever created in the history of the World Cup. If the Reggae Boyz do…
December 9, 2025
Tony Deyal | Hurricane Melissa: Help for all
The first time I met Jamaicans at Canada Hall of The University of the West Indies (UWI) in Trinidad, initially, it was scary. I had just become the hall chairman when a huge Jamaican youth was…
December 9, 2025
Ronald Sanders | ‘Sovereignty’ – A plaything of the powerful?
For the powerful, sovereignty is a sword; for the small, it must remain a shield Sovereignty is supposedly the cornerstone of international order: the formal declaration that every state has the…
December 9, 2025
New York, Los Angeles and Chicago among 40 major US airports targeted for flight cuts due to gov’t shutdown
America’s busiest airports, including those in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago, were set to face hundreds of flight cuts starting Friday due to the government shutdown, according to a list…