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December 9, 2025
Beryllium probing robbery of one of its trucks
Security company Beryllium Limited says it has launched a comprehensive internal investigation into theft of "assets" from one of its trucks on Saturday. The company did not state the…
December 9, 2025
Police probing suspected suicide of UWI student
The body of a female student of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, was reportedly discovered on the George Alleyne Hall at the campus on Thursday morning. It’s understood that suicide…
December 9, 2025
by Paul H. Williams
Sam Sharpe did not start the fire, but …
FROM 1823 rumours were going around that the king of England had granted the enslaved their freedom. The rumours were rife in late 1831, especially since Reverend Thomas Burchell was off the island.…
December 9, 2025
Angel Reese makes Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show history
Angel Reese took her game from the court to the catwalk and made history along the way. The Chicago Sky forward became the first professional athlete to walk in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on…
December 9, 2025
Rights group warns Jamaica at ‘critical juncture’ in mental health response
Rights group Stand Up for Jamaica says the country is now at a critical juncture in its response to mental illness as, despite years of advocacy, thousands of Jamaicans -including children, the…
December 9, 2025
Sean Major-Campbell | Healing in the balmyard
MY RECENT obeah piece certainly triggered many comments, questions, and some condemnation both for obeah and for me. I decided to ask AI Overview about obeah!
December 9, 2025
by Yasmine Peru
Nadine Blair ‘surprised’ by honour from City of Tamarac in Florida
If ever there was a poster child for ‘gospel royalty’, then radio personality, singer, worship leader, actress, author, poet, emcee, speaker and “lover of Christ Jesus” Nadine Blair would be it. The…
December 9, 2025
Peter Espeut | Old ways die hard
“Slavery is indeed scotched in our colonies, but it is not killed; its name is changed: its character remains to be changed hereafter”. [Special Magistrate Richard Robert…
December 9, 2025
Police fire tear gas at thousands of mourners at former Kenyan PM Raila Odinga's public viewing
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya fired tear gas Thursday at thousands of mourners at a public viewing of the body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, an influential politician who died a day…