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December 23, 2025

Michael Abrahams | Sex after the hurricane: a realistic perspective

A few weeks ago, I came across a tweet from Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport Daryl Vaz that piqued my interest. It concerned two women in western Jamaica who were…
A proud moment for the members of the First Dance Studios Gymnastics team from Montego Bay.
December 23, 2025

MoBay dance studio triumphs despite hurricane setbacks

Weeks after Hurricane Melissa damaged its western Jamaica facility in Montego Bay, St James, and wiped out nearly a month of training, First Dance Studios has successfully defended its national…
Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI (AP Photo)
December 23, 2025

These are the key AI players on the cover of Time’s ‘Architects of AI’ magazine

Accompanying Time’s annual Person of the Year selection Thursday is a magazine cover that resembles the “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photograph from the 1930s, showing eight of the “Architects of AI”…
December 23, 2025

More on desalination

THE EDITOR, Madam:
Parris Lyew-Ayee (second left), chairman, JN Foundation exchanges pleasantries with Dr. Tiou Clarke (left), lecturer at the University of Technology, Jamaica; Dr Ricardo Anderson (centre), lecturer in the Department of Computing, The University of the West
December 23, 2025

Growth & Jobs | Embrace AI in Early Childhood Education with caution – tech experts

Educators with knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) are urging their colleagues at the early childhood level to move past scepticism and embrace the technology as part of modern teaching methods.…
For this couple, together is the best place to be.
December 23, 2025 by Krysta Anderson

Kimberly finds love in Leon Wellington

Kimberley Titus made a beautiful entrance at Caymanas Golf Club in St Catherine, walking up the aisle to meet her groom, Leon Wellington, before family and close friends earlier this year. Although…
Letters
December 23, 2025

What’s in a name?

THE EDITOR, Madam: Alex Haley’s TV series Roots casts his slavery re-enactment story around the renaming of an enslaved young man through cruel flogging. Kunta Kinte – called ‘Kunta’ by his parents…
Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
December 23, 2025

Editorial | CARICOM’s new crisis

In times of crisis a good place to start the search for answers is in history – looking for how similar, or relevant, situations were handled in the past.
Letters
December 23, 2025

Letter of the Day | When public works becomes public inconvenience

THE EDITOR, Madam: Government institutions such as the National Water Commission (NWC) have perfected the art of turning necessary infrastructure upgrades into exercises in human suffering. Too…