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Basil Watson’s bronze bust of National Hero Samuel Sharpe mounted in 2018 in Emancipation Park, St Andrew, Jamaica.
December 9, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

Sam Sharpe did not start the fire, but …

FROM 1823 rumours were going around that the king of England had granted the enslaved their freedom. The rumours were rife in late 1831, especially since Reverend Thomas Burchell was off the island.…
Basketball player Angel Reese appears backstage before the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on Wednesday in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
December 9, 2025

Angel Reese makes Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show history

Angel Reese took her game from the court to the catwalk and made history along the way. The Chicago Sky forward became the first professional athlete to walk in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on…
It says trauma and suicidal thoughts also continue to be pressing concerns.
December 9, 2025

Rights group warns Jamaica at ‘critical juncture’ in mental health response

Rights group Stand Up for Jamaica says the country is now at a critical juncture in its response to mental illness as, despite years of advocacy, thousands of Jamaicans -including children, the…
December 9, 2025

Sean Major-Campbell | Healing in the balmyard

MY RECENT obeah piece certainly triggered many comments, questions, and some condemnation both for obeah and for me. I decided to ask AI Overview about obeah!
From left: Nadine Blair; her mother Rev Evon Blair, and Paula Blair at the Sterling Gospel Music Awards held on October 4 at the Emmanuel Apostolic Church, Braeton Parkway, Portmore, St Catherine.
December 9, 2025 by Yasmine Peru

Nadine Blair ‘surprised’ by honour from City of Tamarac in Florida

If ever there was a poster child for ‘gospel royalty’, then radio personality, singer, worship leader, actress, author, poet, emcee, speaker and “lover of Christ Jesus” Nadine Blair would be it. The…
In this file photo, Akaycia Brown (left) and Melecia Bennett stand in front of a mural of map of Jamaica and the country’s National Heroes.
December 9, 2025

Peter Espeut | Old ways die hard

“Slavery is indeed scotched in our colonies, but it is not killed; its name is changed: its character remains to be changed hereafter”. [Special Magistrate Richard Robert…
Mourners gather for the arrival of the body of Kenya's former Prime Minister Raila Odinga arrives in Nairobi, Kenya, a day after he died in India, Thursday, October 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Samson Otieno)
December 9, 2025

Police fire tear gas at thousands of mourners at former Kenyan PM Raila Odinga's public viewing

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya fired tear gas Thursday at thousands of mourners at a public viewing of the body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, an influential politician who died a day…
Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness (left) and Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition Mark Golding at the 45th Annual National Leadership Prayer Breakfast.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Serious Vale Royal Talks

Happily, it was all a misunderstanding. Everyone misapprehended Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ intention when he appeared to relegate Opposition Leader Mark Golding, negotiating first with the justice…
Kristen Gyles writes: Many women in today’s Jamaica suffer from ‘Superwoman Syndrome’.
December 9, 2025

Kristen Gyles | Prince charming and the damsel in financial distress

Recently, I had a conversation with a colleague that forced me to rethink the way I view gender roles especially within the context of a rapidly changing society. He asked me, “If you were married to…