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December 28, 2025
Patricia Green | Hurricane Melissa architecture and land decolonisation
“… I will uncover your skirts over your face, That your shame may appear …” was spoken by God to the prophet Jeremiah about ancient Israel. Is this exposure applicable to post-disaster Jamaica?…
December 28, 2025
by Nicola Cunningham
South West St Andrew Jonkunnu Band still jumping despite challenges
They were the creatures that we feared as children. When the fife and drums started playing, small children would scurry to hide behind their mothers’ skirts as the high-pitched, shrill sound…
December 28, 2025
Poems
How can we celebrate Christmas in a mash-up land? (A Jamaican advent lament and hope) How can we celebrate Christmas In a mash-up land, O Lord? When zinc and sorrow scatter the roads, And every…
December 28, 2025
Floyd Morris | Integrate accessibility and inclusion for more resilient post-Melissa Jamaica
Jamaica has agreed to a number of international agreements that bind it to providing an accessible and inclusive environment for persons with disabilities. The United Nations Convention on the Rights…
December 28, 2025
by Erica Virtue
Literacy leap
Seventy per cent of the cohort of seventh graders at Holy Trinity High School last academic year who were part of the Grade 7 Academy – a radical literacy and numeracy programme for students…
December 27, 2025
Portmore woman charged over alleged false property rental
A 33-year-old woman from Portmore, St Catherine has been charged after allegedly advertising a property for rent, collecting a down payment, and providing a key to a unit that could not later be…
December 27, 2025
Police probe Boxing Day murder in St Andrew
The police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 42-year-old man in Bull Bay, St Andrew, last night. The deceased has been identified as Damion Headley of Beach Road, Bull Bay. Reports are that…
December 27, 2025
Decomposing body of farmer found in St Ann
The St Ann police have launched an investigation into the death of a 56-year-old farmer whose decomposing body was discovered in the parish on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Steadman…
December 27, 2025
Man killed in St Elizabeth traffic crash
A man said to be of unsound mind was killed in a traffic crash after he reportedly walked into the path of a vehicle in St Elizabeth on Friday night. He has been identified as Phillip Walters,…