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December 9, 2025

GoodHeart | Class of 1975 gives back for St Andrew High centenary

Nearly 50 years after they walked out of the Cecelio Avenue gates with mixed emotions leaving their tunics behind, the Class of 1975 has returned to St Andrew High School for Girls to give back. In…
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December 9, 2025 by Mikael Klintman

When mental health apps become worry engines

It’s 2:47 am and your phone buzzes on the nightstand. The notification suddenly glows in the darkness: “You’re on a 7-day streak!”; “Don’t break your streak!”. You feel the need to open the app right…
This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Humberto on Friday, September 26, 2025. (NOAA via AP)
December 9, 2025

Humberto becomes a hurricane in the Atlantic as Gabrielle moves away from the Azores

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Humberto formed Friday in the Atlantic Ocean on track to become a major hurricane, while forecasters monitored a nearby tropical disturbance that could bring dangerous weather…
Entertainment
December 9, 2025

Barbara McDaniel: Three decades of dance and discipline

For more than 30 years, Barbara McDaniel has been a commanding force in Jamaica’s dance theatre. Affectionately called ‘Miss B’, she is founder and artistic director of Dance Theatre Xaymaca (DTX) and…
Entertainment
December 9, 2025

Terror-related charge against rap artiste thrown out

LOS ANGELES (AP): A London court on Friday threw out a terror-related charge against a member of controversial Irish rap group, Kneecap, basing its decision on a technical error in the way the charge…
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December 9, 2025

Poem

Actors on a stage We are all actors on a stage. Working for a reasonable wage. Playing a role in the show called life. Are you the star of the show? Are you the leading act? Are you the villain?…
Thriller novelist Andrea Bartz is photographed in her home, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, September 4, 2025.
December 9, 2025

Authors triumph in copyright case against AI company

A federal judge on Thursday approved a US$1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to…
Joanne Chesimard, a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, leaves Middlesex County courthouse, in New Brunswick, NJ, April 25, 1977.(AP Photo, File)
December 9, 2025

Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black militant sought by the US since 1979, dies in Cuba

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a US prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has…
Business
December 9, 2025

UN blacklists another 68 companies over Israeli settlements

The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of firms from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli…