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Michael Abrahams | Sex after the hurricane: a realistic perspective

Published:Tuesday | December 23, 2025 | 12:06 AM

A few weeks ago, I came across a tweet from Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport Daryl Vaz that piqued my interest. It concerned two women in western Jamaica who were approached with care packages in the aftermath of...

Gordon Robinson | International Domino Awards 2025

Published:Tuesday | December 23, 2025 | 12:06 AM

For the 14th time I celebrate my days around Gene Autry’s domino table by handing out awards named for the regulars. International Dunce Award: How does Donald Trump not win this award hands down? Elementary, my dear Watson. Firstly, there’s...

More on desalination

Published:Tuesday | December 23, 2025 | 12:06 AM

THE EDITOR, Madam: Just a few years ago, I would have completely rejected the idea of using desalination plants for water supply but after reading Kristen Gyles thoughtful piece on the topic in The Gleaner on Friday, December 19, my thinking has...

These are the key AI players on the cover of Time’s ‘Architects of AI’ magazine

Published:Tuesday | December 23, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Accompanying Time’s annual Person of the Year selection Thursday is a magazine cover that resembles the “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photograph from the 1930s, showing eight of the “Architects of AI” sitting on a beam. “This was the year when...

MoBay dance studio triumphs despite hurricane setbacks

Published:Tuesday | December 23, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Weeks after Hurricane Melissa damaged its western Jamaica facility in Montego Bay, St James, and wiped out nearly a month of training, First Dance Studios has successfully defended its national gymnastics title, emerging First Place Club at a major...

Kimberly finds love in Leon Wellington

Published:Tuesday | December 23, 2025 | 12:06 AMKrysta Anderson/Staff Reporter

Kimberley Titus made a beautiful entrance at Caymanas Golf Club in St Catherine, walking up the aisle to meet her groom, Leon Wellington, before family and close friends earlier this year. Although the couple had quietly tied the knot in a private...

Growth & Jobs | Embrace AI in Early Childhood Education with caution – tech experts

Published:Tuesday | December 23, 2025 | 12:05 AM

Educators with knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) are urging their colleagues at the early childhood level to move past scepticism and embrace the technology as part of modern teaching methods. While advocating for its integration, they...

Editorial | CARICOM’s new crisis

Published:Tuesday | December 23, 2025 | 12:05 AM

In times of crisis a good place to start the search for answers is in history – looking for how similar, or relevant, situations were handled in the past. Having only recently clawed its way back to a path of potential stability and for...

What’s in a name?

Published:Tuesday | December 23, 2025 | 12:05 AM

THE EDITOR, Madam: Alex Haley’s TV series Roots casts his slavery re-enactment story around the renaming of an enslaved young man through cruel flogging. Kunta Kinte – called ‘Kunta’ by his parents before his kidnapping and capture by white slave...

Letter of the Day | When public works becomes public inconvenience

Published:Tuesday | December 23, 2025 | 12:05 AM

THE EDITOR, Madam: Government institutions such as the National Water Commission (NWC) have perfected the art of turning necessary infrastructure upgrades into exercises in human suffering. Too often, their operations make daily life unbearable,...

JCF offers escort services in delivery of relief supplies

Published:Monday | December 22, 2025 | 8:45 PM

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is offering escort services for persons who wish to deliver relief supplies to communities impacted by Hurricane Melissa in the western end of the island. Head of the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement...

Vince Zampella, video game pioneer behind 'Call of Duty' dies

Published:Monday | December 22, 2025 | 7:54 PM

Vince Zampella, one of the creators behind best-selling video games such as “Call of Duty,” has died. He was 55. Video game company Electronic Arts said Zampella died Sunday. The company did not disclose his cause of death. In 2010, Zampella...

Hurricane Melissa's impact felt at Green Acres Farmer’s Market in St Catherine

Published:Monday | December 22, 2025 | 7:49 PM

This year’s staging of the Green Acres Farmers’ Market in St Catherine was scaled down, with fewer people in attendance and limited produce due to the impact of the deadly Hurricane Melissa. The event was held earlier on Monday. “We are seeing [...

Police extend curfew in sections of St Andrew

Published:Monday | December 22, 2025 | 6:40 PM

The 48-hour curfew imposed on the communities of Park and 100 Lane, Red Hills Road in St Andrew has been extended by the St Andrew North police. The extension takes effect from 6 p.m. today to 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Police say the security measure...

Marcel Gayle quits as head coach of Waterhouse FC

Published:Monday | December 22, 2025 | 6:42 PM

Marcel 'Fuzzy' Gayle has resigned as head coach of Waterhouse Football Club with immediate effect. Gayle, who has been in charge of the Drewsland-based St Andrew club since 2018, submitted his resignation to club executives on Monday afternoon,...

Port-au-Prince mayor files lawsuit after claiming his home was searched illegally

Published:Monday | December 22, 2025 | 3:49 PM

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC - Mayor of Port-au-Prince in Haiti, Ralph Youri Chevry, Monday announced that he had filed a lawsuit with the Port-au-Prince Criminal Court after the authorities conducted a near three-hour search of his residence, which...

Man sought in fatal machete attack on ex-girlfriend surrenders to St Andrew police

Published:Monday | December 22, 2025 | 2:44 PM

A 29-year-old man wanted by the police for the alleged chopping-murder of his former partner and the wounding of her teen daughter surrendered to the St Andrew North police on Monday. The suspect, Ricardo 'Crow' McCarty, turned himself in at the...

More police on Trelawny streets for holiday season

Published:Monday | December 22, 2025 | 1:42 PM

The Trelawny police have increased their presence across the parish for the holiday season. Operations Manager for the Trelawny Police Division, Deputy Superintendent Shamar Edwards, explained that the added “boots on the ground” are part of a...

Adekeye Adebajo | Donald Trump and the White Man’s Burden in Nigeria

Published:Monday | December 22, 2025 | 12:47 PM

US President Donald Trump recently threatened to take military action against Nigeria to save Christians from a “genocide”. Trump has three possible motives for making such a threat: his mercantilist quest for rare-earth minerals, his pandering to...

Cyberattack disrupts France’s postal service and banking during Christmas rush

Published:Monday | December 22, 2025 | 12:45 PM

PARIS (AP) — A suspected cyberattack knocked France’s national postal service and its banking arm offline Monday, blocking and delaying package deliveries and online payments at the height of the busy Christmas season. The postal service, called...

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