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04 Oct, 2026 0

Dwight Fletcher | When the truth gets in your way

Over the last three weeks, we have explored the war for truth. We have considered how easily truth can be manipulated, why the idea of “your truth and my truth” is so attractive but destructive, and…
 
Rabbi Yaakov Raskin joins the singing and dancing during the traditional procession welcoming a newly handwritten Torah scroll to Chabad of Jamaica.
04 Oct, 2026 0

Yaakov Raskin | They tried to silence our joy. Today, we dance again

Today, Jews around the world celebrate Simchat Torah, the final festival of the fall holiday season. Yet three years ago, on October 7, 2023, this joyous occasion was shattered when terrorists…
Major-Campbell
04 Oct, 2026 0

Sean Major-Campbell | Should the Church talk about artificial intelligence?

“ I advise you to use social media and artificial intelligence well, employing these tools in a moderate and disciplined manner, because they can immerse us in an unreal world where the ephemeral,…
Nicole Landry
04 Oct, 2026 0

A daughter’s tribute: Healing through the chakras

When Canadian entrepreneur Nicole Landry released her most ambitious project in early 2025, it was a bittersweet occasion. In the summer of 2024, she lost her Jamaican father, who had been both a…
By 1894, Bedward’s church had a temple on the Hope River.
04 Oct, 2026 0

Horace D. Ward | Bedward was never the joke

Ask most Jamaicans about Alexander Bedward and you will get a smile, then the story of the man who tried to fly to heaven. That reflex is a colonial inheritance, and it has cost us a national teacher.…
Toshyna Patterson and her daughter, Sarayah Paulwell.
03 Oct, 2026 0

‘Special kind of evil’

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes said the Kingston painter, who was eligible for the death penalty for murdering Toshyna Patterson and her baby, should really be breathing his last breath in prison – not…
Euon Douglas Graham, mother of 20-year-old D’Jonnay Graham, who was shot dead by her police lover in June 2025.
03 Oct, 2026 0

Mom of slain 20-y-o wanted life sentence for police lover

The mother of 20-year-old D’Jonnay Graham, who was shot dead by her police lover in June 2025, has expressed displeasure that he was sentenced for manslaughter, insisting that her beloved daughter was…
A section of Little Dunn’s River.
03 Oct, 2026 0

UDC warns it cannot guarantee daily services at Little Dunn’s River

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) says the relevant team has been directed to take steps to facilitate public access to Little Dunn’s River Beach in Ocho Rios, St Ann, in compliance with a court…
Dr Jubilee Brown-Service, president of the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association.
03 Oct, 2026 0

Docs to decide on next steps in response to delayed IDT ruling

More than 100 junior doctors at the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester stayed off the job on Friday, joining hundreds of colleagues across the island. The junior doctors abstained from work in…