News
September 2025
by Keisha Hill
2025 Carlton Alexander Memorial Bursary awards excellence
‘Lights, Camera, Legacy’, was a powerful reminder to the 2025 Carlton Alexander Memorial Bursary recipients, as they were encouraged to step out into the spotlight, during the 35th staging of the…
September 2025
by Neil Armstrong
Jamaican-led men’s health interest group donates scholarship
TORONTO: A Jamaican-led men’s health interest and prostate cancer support group has chosen September, Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, to offer a scholarship to black medical students at the new…
September 2025
Jamaica’s first indoor skatepark launched at UTech
The Caribbean School of Architecture (CSA), University of Technology, has launched Jamaica’s first indoor mobile skatepark which is a fully transportable facility, equipped with a professional mini…
September 2025
Montel Gordon | Why does voter apathy persist in Jamaica’s elections?
The latest general election witnessed a historic third term for Andrew Holiness and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), overcoming Mark Golding and the People’s National Party (PNP) – the points of…
September 2025
by Bryan Miller
Hanover’s disaster preparedness coordinator to represent Jamaica in Japan
Western Bureau: Annissa Spence, the acting parish disaster coordinator at the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), has been nominated by the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development to…
September 2025
Helen Ann Brown | Raising great short men
RAISING GREAT short males is a unique feat. Only a few parents recognise the challenge raising short males presents. We live in a culture that has developed its own standards of acceptability and…
September 2025
Helen Ann Brown | Snippets from the life of St Augustine
YOU MAY have heard of Saint Augustine. Let’s drop the title saint and call him Augustine. Before his conversion to Christianity, Augustine’s full name was Aurelius Augustinus. He was born in Tagaste,…
September 2025
Hello Mi Neighbour | Learn to disagree agreeably
Disagreeing agreeably requires tact, empathy, and effective communication and commonsense. And that is commonsense! If as a Jamaican, you should ever go to a restaurant in Trinidad to have callaloo…
September 2025
Rabbi Yaakov Raskin | The voice of Charlie Kirk – Truth cannot be silenced
AS WE approach Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year which begins on September 22 at sundown and concludes after nightfall on the 24th, it is a season of awe, repentance and trembling. On these days, the…