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December 9, 2025
Fire guts building in Spanish Town, worker escapes through second-floor window
A law office and a residential premises located on a three-storey building in Spanish Town, St Catherine have been destroyed by a fire. A furniture store on the ground floor of the property, which…
December 9, 2025
Canadians among several arrested in St Elizabeth cocaine bust
A quantity of cocaine has been seized and several persons, including two Canadians, have been arrested in a major operation now under way in St Elizabeth, sources have disclosed. The amount of…
December 9, 2025
Christopher Burgess | Rebuild housing in western Jamaica
Almost six weeks ago, Hurricane Melissa devastated western Jamaica and exposed long-standing inequalities. It damaged 190,000 homes and hit the most vulnerable — families in board houses on leased and…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Kishore Shallow must go
Kishore Shallow, the president of Cricket West Indies, clearly doesn’t get it.
December 9, 2025
Don Anderson | WI batters show value of applying themselves
Current West Indies cricket captain Roston Chase was recently quoted as saying, after a series of poor batting performances by the WI test team, that the real challenge for the team was the weaknesses…
December 9, 2025
Orville Taylor | Delicate balances
Sometimes the lines between competing positions can become so blurred, that one wonders if the ultimate objective can be accomplished. Two persons jumped to the front of the news last week. Member of…
December 9, 2025
Garth Rattray | The paradoxical desocialisation by social media – Part 2
I am a huge fan of the WhatsApp social media platform. I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that I get hundreds of messages daily. WhatsApp was especially helpful in maintaining stability, connectivity,…
December 9, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
Springs to the rescue as St James water crisis deepens
A worsening water crisis in St James has forced residents across the parish to depend on roadside springs and makeshift catchments for basic household needs, even as health officials warn that the…
December 9, 2025
by Kimone Francis
Edmund Ridge fury
Less than a year after moving into his new two-bedroom home at Edmund Ridge Estates in St James, homeowner Anthony Davis has begun extensive interior renovations. The house was among several severely…