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December 9, 2025
Byron Blake | COP30: A requiem for Jamaica and SIDS
With the omission of five small words, “transition away from fossil fuels”, from its final Declaration, COP30 sentenced Jamaica and other small islands and low-lying coastal states (SIDS) to an early…
December 9, 2025
Garth Rattray | Paradoxical desocialisation by social media – Part 1
Over the years, human beings have been extremely inventive and creative in discovering, inventing, or improving / developing things that are extremely useful to us as a race. Although we…
December 9, 2025
Jodian Pantry drops holiday single ‘My Christmas’
Jamaican singer Jodian Pantry releases her new holiday single, My Christmas, a soulful love song produced by Paul ‘Patchy’ Wright for IslandYard Productions. With warm vocals and a contemporary…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | When Fayval speaks
While her Cabinet colleagues have hogged the show, talking about everything – from its economic impact to plans for recovery, Fayval Williams, the finance minister, has been peculiarly quiet in the…
December 9, 2025
University of London honours Beckles
The University of London has conferred the degree of Honorary Doctor of Social Sciences on Professor Sir Hilary Beckles. The award was presented during the university’s Foundation Day ceremony on…
December 9, 2025
by Carl Gilchrist
Ocho Rios High School welcomes 100 visiting students
Principal of Ocho Rios High School, Marvin Clowson, says while the school is accommodating students displaced by Hurricane Melissa, it will not be processing transfer requests at this time. Ocho Rios…
December 9, 2025
Parents disappointed after UK Home Office reportedly rejects visa for 8-y-o daughter impacted by Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica
The UK Guardian is reporting that a Jamaican woman and her British husband have been left disappointed after the Home Office rejected a visa application for their eight-year-old daughter. They had…
December 9, 2025
Brazilian police crack down on US$4.8b tax-evasion and money-laundering scheme
Brazilian police launched a police operation on Thursday to dismantle a major tax-evasion and money-laundering scheme in the fuel sector. The group under investigation is Brazil’s largest tax debtor,…
December 9, 2025
Belize gov’t assures public of safe drinking water
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Ministry of Health and Wellness in Belize on Thursday sought to assure the public that the water supply in the country is safe for drinking, even as it acknowledged recent…