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December 9, 2025
Residents sound alarm after 'oily substance' and dead fish wash ashore Farquhar Beach in Clarendon
A probe is to be launched after residents say an oily substance and dead fish have washed ashore at Farquhar Beach in southern Clarendon. The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries confirmed that…
December 9, 2025
'Bad heart' charged with Kingston murder
Thirty-three-year-old Travis Graham, aka ‘Bad Heart,’ has been charged with murder and related offences following the shooting death of Oneil Senior, 30, in Kingston in September. The shooting took…
December 9, 2025
A cycle of words ends, a cycle of action begins
COP30 President-Designate André Corrêa do Lago in the tenth and final letter reflects on the journey toward COP30 as both a destination and a new beginning, calling on nations to transform…
December 9, 2025
by Jovan Johnson
Turn crisis into opportunity
The World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are urging Jamaica to turn the devastation from Hurricane Melissa into an opportunity to “reimagine” its reconstruction and…
December 9, 2025
Call of Belém for the climate urges countries to respond urgently to the global crisis
Brazil’s President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, issued a call for urgent action addressed to all countries, aimed at giving renewed momentum to the global fight against climate change. The call…
December 9, 2025
Greta Merrill | The world unites in the face of crisis
In these trying times for the environmental movement, it can sometimes feel impossible to find the (solar-powered) light. In September the International Day of Preservation of the Ozone Layer (or…
December 9, 2025
Lloyd Barnett | Identification and status of the head of state
In the previous articles in this series, I expressed the opinion that at present it appears that Jamaica will change from a monarchical form of Constitution to a republican form but that the…
December 9, 2025
Ronald Thwaites | Choices have consequences
The Minister is right. Each local school board has the practical and legal responsibility to determine how and when to resume school after Melissa.The role of government is to harvest the most urgent…
December 9, 2025
by Robert Bailey
DIVIDED WE STAND
A NUMBER of ISSA/WATA Manning Cup coaches have expressed mixed views on whether the Corporate Area schoolboy football competition should resume following the devastating passage of Category 5…