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December 12, 2025 by Gregory Bryce

STATHS, Vauxhall clash for semis spot

With Eltham High already in the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup semifinals, and Calabar High out of contention, the race for the remaining qualifying spot in Group B will be decided today when St Andrew…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness (left) with Chief of the Accompong Maroons in St Elizabeth, Richard Currie, during a visit to the community. Olivia Grange, minister of culture, gender, entertainment and sport, looks on.
December 12, 2025

Kristen Gyles | Identity crisis in Accompong

All across the earth, there are examples of identity crises. A teenager might really not want to be a child, but is still a child. A boy might really not want to be a male, but is still male. A man…
Simon ‘Skygrass’ Bowden
December 12, 2025 by Kenrick Morgan

5 Questions With Skygrass

The last time The Gleaner caught up with Simon Bowden, better known as Skygrass, was in 2017, when the singer-songwriter was knee-deep in shaping his sound and aiming for the reggae music crown.…
December 12, 2025

Peter Espeut | Celebrating the incarnation

Every time I hear talk of “cancelling Christmas” I cringe. The celebration by Christians of “the Word becoming flesh” cannot be cancelled by governments or shopkeepers. Any talk of “Christmas in…
This photo shows remains of board houses strewn in Retirement, Bluefields, Westmoreland, which were destroyed by Hurricane Melissa.
December 12, 2025

Editorial | Westmoreland after Melissa

Even within the widespread destruction and human misery caused by Hurricane Melissa in western Jamaica, the parish of Westmoreland is a special special case. It is in need of urgent and specific…
Ahead of the ‘Living’ photo shoot to spotlight her capsule collection, on which she collaborated with visual artist Tobean Walters, fashion designer Angella Wilkinson flashed her pearly whites.
December 12, 2025 by Omar Tomlinson

Artistic points of view

Fashion designer Angella Wilkinson is draped in the Christmas spirit. Two weeks after being tasked by Living to create a holiday wardrobe – with a caveat to steer clear of seasonal colour tropes – the…
December 12, 2025

Readers’ reactions

Quick action by councillor leads to rescue of missing Clarendon girl, man arrested I wonder if it’s so easy for a stranger to walk onto a school compound and take a child that doesn’t belong to him…
In this 2023 photo Haiti nationals are seen in the compound of the Seventh Day Adventist operated Camp Don in Robins Bay, St. Mary.
December 12, 2025

Letter of the Day | Non-refoulement at our shores: Jamaica’s legal obligation to protect Haitians

THE EDITOR, Madam: Jamaica stands at a critical moral, legal, and humanitarian crossroads as we continue to turn away groups of Haitian asylum seekers who arrive on our shores in desperation. The…
Dellon Hall, an employee of Strobe Etech Communications, is overcome with emotion after receiving a bed during the company’s handover of essential household items to staff affected by Hurricane Melissa on Tuesday.
December 12, 2025 by Ashley Anguin

MoBay BPO firm rolls out $8.5m staff relief drive

Western Bureau: When Hurricane Melissa ripped across western Jamaica, it left BPO employees like Aleshia Malcolm sheltering in her car and erased Dellon Hall’s home entirely. Now, Strobe Etech…