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Coffee beans that got damaged during the passage of Hurricane Melissa in Spring Hill, Portland.
December 22, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Battered beans

Making a case for more meaningful support from the Government toward one of the country’s long-standing industries, Donald Salmon, president of the Jamaica Coffee Growers Association, says coffee…
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, addresses the media at the July 2025 Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in Montego Bay. He has collaborated with Gramps Morgan on the song ‘Reparations’, using his stage na
December 22, 2025

Antigua PM tackles T&T counterpart over claim CARICOM has ‘lost its way’

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): The Antigua and Barbuda government yesterday disputed recent comments by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar that the 15-member regional integration…
Idris Elba poses for photographers at the red carpet for the film ‘A House of Dynamite’ during the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on September 2. He is the latest star to have his waxwork rolled out at the London Wax Museum, Madame Tussauds.
December 22, 2025

Madame Tussauds waxwork a ‘full circle moment’ for Idris Elba

Idris Elba is “honoured” to have a Madame Tussauds waxwork. The award-winning actor is the latest star to have the red carpet rolled out for him at the London wax museum. As of last Friday, he joins a…
Some of the relief supplies distributed by the Seprod Foundation, in partnership with Brunswick and Facey Commodity.
December 22, 2025

Brunswick partners with Seprod Foundation for ongoing Hurricane Melissa relief

In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, communities across St Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Crawford, Seaford Town, and surrounding parishes continue to face challenges related to food security. In response, the…
Donald Berry, coffee farmer in Spring Hill, Portland, checks for disease on coffee beans on his farm.
December 22, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

‘Coffee and Jamaica are close to my heart’

For nearly three decades, Donald Berry has put his energy and passion into producing Blue Mountain Coffee, and has had setbacks in the past. However, with the passage of Hurricane Melissa, he thought…
Prakazrel Pras Michel, a member of the 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees, accompanied by defence lawyer David Kenner (right), arrives at federal court April 3, 2023, in Washington.
December 22, 2025

Rapper Pras files motion to avoid jail

Pras Michel has sought bail while he appeals his international fraud convictions. The Fugees rapper was convicted of 10 charges, including acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, back…
This photo shows JPS crews carrying out restoration work in Montego Bay, St James.
December 22, 2025

Editorial | Energy reset now

It would be denying the obvious to claim Jamaica’s energy sector isn’t mired in controversy or lacking clarity in its direction. Last week, the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) advised peeved…
Letters
December 22, 2025

Unheeded ‘Gulf Lesson’

THE EDITOR, Madam: The US has been involved with Venezuela since oil was discovered there about a century ago, and, for a time, major American companies controlled 98 per cent of the production.…
Letters
December 22, 2025

Letter of the Day | Delroy Chuck and the long test of justice reform

THE EDITOR, Madam: Few public officials in modern Jamaica have served as long in a single portfolio as Justice Minister Delroy Chuck. Such longevity invites neither praise nor condemnation by…