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December 31, 2025
Work or lose aid: The Trump‑era rules facing low‑income Americans
The Trump administration made work requirements for low-income people receiving government assistance a priority in 2025. The US departments of health and human services, agriculture and housing and…
December 31, 2025
Elizabeth Morgan | Is Canada quietly forging its own path?
We here in Jamaica spend a lot of time following the news out of the US and are quite knowledgeable about the political and economic developments there.
December 31, 2025
World shares are mixed in the final stretch of 2025
Shares opened mixed in Europe on Tuesday after slipping in Asia as some regional markets wrapped up trading for the year. Crude oil prices edged higher and gold and silver resumed their ascent. US…
December 31, 2025
Sayeed Bernard | Rethink mandatory minimum for imitation firearms
Jamaica’s crime problem demands strength. We all want a justice system that strikes fear into the hearts of those who threaten our citizens. But strength without fairness becomes punishment for…
December 31, 2025
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Iyla Cousins on finding your centre in the New Year
The transition into a new year often comes with a heavy dose of goal pressure. The ‘new year, new you’ narrative pushes people to move faster, dream bigger, and overhaul their entire lives by the time…
December 31, 2025
Letter of the Day | Punished for being educated
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing not just as an unemployed graduate, but as a Jamaican who did what our society consistently tells young people to do: get an education, improve yourself, and…
December 31, 2025
What is going to change in the new year?
THE EDITOR, Madam: It is said that anticipations frequently provide more stimulus than their realisation. The joys and elations that accompanies expectation are often betrayed by the reality. New…
December 30, 2025
Six charged over alleged theft from storehouse in St Ann
Sleuths assigned to the St Ann Criminal Investigations Branch have charged six men in connection with a theft at a storehouse along Stand Fast Road in Brown’s Town, St Ann in November. Charged are…
December 30, 2025
JDF soldier charged over firing of gun in St Elizabeth
A member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has been charged following a Christmas Day incident in Roses Valley, St Elizabeth, in which he allegedly discharged a firearm in public. Thirty-year-old…