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International recording artiste Sean Paul (centre), his sister-in-law Winsome Henriques (left), and a volunteer of the Sean Paul Foundation, Alana Thomas, get ready to package food items during their visit to the Food For The Poor Jamaica.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Sean Paul makes appeal on CNN; pledges US$50,000 for hurricane relief

Global dancehall superstar, Sean Paul, told The Gleaner in a recent interview that wherever he goes in the world, Jamaica is always on his mind. The patriotic Jamaican entertainer has been put to the…
Evlin Walsh
02 Nov, 2025 0

Evlin Walsh | The costs of cutting down trees

Trees are absolutely vital to all life on Earth. To be blunt, humans cannot survive without them: they are nature’s air purifiers, constantly cleaning our atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and…
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange has announced a five-concert fundraising series to raise funds in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.
02 Nov, 2025 0

‘I Love Jamaica’ concert for Kingston Nov 14

‘I Love Jamaica’, a five-concert fundraising series, which will be staged in cities across the world, gets under way on November 14, at the National Stadium Car Park in Kingston, beginning at 7:30…
Luis Sanchez (centre) sits with other Venezuelan migrants on a boat leaving Gardi Sugdub on Panama’s Caribbean coast.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Pía Riggirozzi | Toward COP30: climate change and forced migration in Latin America

Climate change not only destroys territories and ecosystems; it deepens historical inequalities and forces millions of people to move. In Latin America and the Caribbean, where structural poverty,…
An aerial view of Falmouth, Jamaica in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in October 2025.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Four urgent lessons for Jamaica from Puerto Rico’s troubled hurricane recovery

Across Jamaica, streets are littered with torn-off roofs, splintered wood and other debris left in the wake of Hurricane Melissa. Downed power lines have left communities in the dark, and many flooded…
People gather, among them students, to walk on the street towards the northern city of Novi Sad, for a huge rally on November, marking the first anniversary of a train station disaster that killed 16 people, in Belgrade, Serbia.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Anniversary of deadly train station disaster marked with large rally

NOVI SAD (AP): Tens of thousands of people from all over Serbia commemorated the victims of a railway station disaster a year ago in the northern city of Novi Sad in a gathering on Saturday seen as a…
A woman observes All Saints’ Day, a time for reflecting on those who have died, in Kroczewo near Warsaw, Poland.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Catholics honour All Saints’ Day with family gatherings,cemetery visits

WARSAW (AP): Poles met up with families and visited their beloved dead on All Saints’ Day, which was celebrated Saturday across the Catholic world. All Saints’ Day, annually celebrated on November 1,…
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (left) listens to his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein during a news conference after a meeting at the foreign ministry in Baghdad, Iraq.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Foreign minister calls for disarmament of Kurdish fighters

BAGHDAD (AP): Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein on Sunday called on Kurdish separatist fighters, who have withdrawn to the country’s north after waging a decades-long insurgency in Turkey, to…
Forensic investigators on the platform by a train at Huntingdon station after a mass stabbing on a London-bound train in Cambridgeshire, England.
02 Nov, 2025 0

Police rule out terrorism in stabbing attack on train after two men are arrested

LONDON (AP): British police dismissed speculation on Sunday that a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train the previous evening was terrorism-related, but said two people who were wounded remain…