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December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | When democracy slips away
The present White House led by Donald Trump is devouring democracy and doing it with glee and much haste. Here in Jamaica we gave it our special birth, our special nurturing and when it veered off…
December 9, 2025
Imani Tafari-Ama | Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
Multiple thoughts must have swirled around in Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness‘ mind as he took the oath of office for the fourth time in his elongated political career. Did it occur to him in those…
December 9, 2025
Jalil Dabdoub | Cabinet bloat and the crisis of entitlement
The recent Cabinet appointments, along with the insolent walkout by veteran member of parliament (MP) Everald Warmington, apparently in protest to his omission from same, expose the entitlement and…
December 9, 2025
Angela Huyue Zhang | A TikTok deal China will love
After four extensions of the statutory deadline to ban TikTok or force its Chinese owners to divest, president of the United States, Donald Trump, has now signed an executive order transferring the…
December 9, 2025
by Albert Ferguson
Errol Green bats for Jamaica to have its own final court
WESTERN BUREAU: Errol Greene, trustee of the Lay Magistrates Association of Jamaica (LMAJ), is supportive of the view that Jamaica should establish its own final court of appeal, arguing that the…
December 9, 2025
Dominican PM calls for structural change at CXC
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, has called for a “structural change” at the Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) as part of the reform of the…
December 9, 2025
Former FBI Director Comey indicted on charges of making a false statement, obstruction
Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with making a false statement and obstruction in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to…
December 9, 2025
Shatta Wale, Vybz Kartel unite on ‘Street Crown (Remix)’
Dancehall royalty collides as Ghana’s superstar Shatta Wale and Jamaica’s World Boss Vybz Kartel join forces on the brand-new Street Crown (Remix), now available on YouTube and across all major…
December 9, 2025
Central Avenue to be closed for road work this weekend
The National Works Agency (NWA) has advised that Central Avenue in St Andrew will be closed for 10 hours on Saturday and Sunday. It says the road is to be closed between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., each day…