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This combination photo shows former prime ministers of Jamaica P.J. Patterson (left) and Bruce Golding.
December 9, 2025

Patterson and Golding among former PMs concerned about US military action in Caribbean region

Former prime ministers P.J. Patterson and Bruce Golding are among a group of ex-heads of government in the Caribbean who have expressed concern about the military build-up of the United States in the…
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr, addresses a special press briefing on preparations for Tropical Storm Melissa at the Office of the Prime Minister in Kingston on Wednesday.
December 9, 2025

Stay updated on bulletins, follow instructions amid TS Melissa

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, is appealing to citizens to stay up to date on the bulletins issued by the Meteorological Service of Jamaica and to heed the…
Foods to be packaged and distributed by the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists across the island in observance of World Food Day are placed on display at the Port Maria Seventh-day Adventist Church in St Mary on Tuesday.
December 9, 2025 by Gareth Davis Sr

SDA church targets 40,000 meals to help ease hunger in Jamaica

The Jamaica Union of Seventh-day Adventists is aiming to provide meals for up to 40,000 Jamaicans who go hungry each night as part of efforts to combat food insecurity across the island. Speaking…
Sarah Mullally, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the world’s 85 million Anglicans, speaks inside Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, England.
December 9, 2025

Sean Major-Campbell | God chooses women ever so often

ARCHBISHOP SHANE Parker has presented a pastoral statement from the Primate and Metropolitans of the Anglican Church of Canada concerning the Anglican Communion, in response to primates of the Global…
Revivalists from across the island gathered in worship and celebration during the inaugural National Revival Conference and Church Service, hosted at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre on May 28, 2025.
December 9, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

Formerly enslaved people created Revivalism

FROM THE Catholics to the Baptists to the other denominations, Christians from Europe and American came to the West Indies to Christianise and save the souls of the Tainos (the natives) and enslaved…
December 9, 2025

Rabbi Yaakov Raskin | Noah and the ARK

WHAT DO Montego Bay’s Hip Strip, Ziggy Marley and Noah’s ark all have in common? In 2017, Jamaica got its first Kosher not-for-profit restaurant, the ‘Hot Spot’. Located in the heart of the ‘hip…
Melissa is forecast to meander over the central Caribbean Sea and could potentially become a major hurricane.
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Menacing Melissa

Principal Director of the Meteorological Service of Jamaica Evan Thompson says he is not ruling out the possibility of Tropical Storm Melissa making landfall in Jamaica. However, Thompson argued…
Heavy equipment and trucks are seen at Sandy Gully clearing debris and garbage ahead of Tropical Storm Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

Sandy Gully race against time

A major de-silting of sections of the Sandy Gully in St Andrew got under way yesterday morning in a race against time as Tropical Storm Melissa meanders towards Jamaica. Works Minister Robert Morgan,…
Former Education Minister Ruel Reid (left) and former Caribbean Maritime University President Professor Fritz Pinnock.
December 9, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Judge slaps down Wildman’s appeal for pause of Reid, Pinnock fraud trial

Defence lawyer Hugh Wildman yesterday urged Senior Parish Judge Sanchia Burrel to voluntarily pause the multimillion-dollar fraud trial involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid and others in the…