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December 9, 2025
Police identify men killed on Mandela Highway
The St Catherine South police have identified the three men who were fatally shot during an alleged confrontation with police yesterday along Mandela Highway. They are 21-year-old Davian McLean of…
December 9, 2025
UN secretary general urges nations at climate talks to be flexible to get results
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday called for countries at climate talks in Brazil to compromise and "show willingness and flexibility to deliver…
December 9, 2025
Next Met Gala exhibit will spotlight fashion across art history
NEW YORK (AP): If there’s been one uniting theme of all the blockbuster fashion exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it’s the simple idea that fashion is art. ‘Costume Art’, announced on…
December 9, 2025
Prada heir Lorenzo Bertelli will have strategic role at Versace
MILAN (AP): Prada heir Lorenzo Bertelli will have a major strategic role as executive chairman of Versace after the Prada Group completes its 1.25 billion-euro (US$1.4 billion) deal to buy its rival,…
December 9, 2025
Vector control workers stoned in St Elizabeth
The Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) is urging members of the public to desist from attacking vector control workers carrying out their duties, following a stoning incident on Tuesday. The…
December 9, 2025
Man arrested following discovery of his mother's decomposing body
Detectives assigned to the St Catherine North police have taken a man into custody in connection with the suspected murder of his elderly mother whose body was found in an advanced state of…
December 9, 2025
JDF Coast Guard seizes cocaine valued over $3.7 billion off coast of Jamaica
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) says the Coast Guard seized a little over 990 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of $3.7 billion dollars following a successful joint counter-narcotics…
December 9, 2025
Ohene Blake | Cauterising the adverse economic impacts of Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa has devastated the western third or more of Jamaica. This is the prime real sector for economic growth. It is the centre of agricultural food production for the entire Jamaican and…
December 9, 2025
Peter Espeut | God is not like humanity
Many of us Jamaicans are Old Testament people – which is fine if we follow the Jewish faith tradition. But if we are children of the New Covenant – the New Testament – then we follow a different…