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December 29, 2025
Matheus Pereira | COP30: Who has access to the information needed to confront the climate crisis?
The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), held in the city of Belém, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, may go down in history for something that goes far beyond technical…
December 29, 2025
Hundreds mourn military chief killed in Turkey plane crash
MISRATA (AP): Hundreds of people on Sunday mourned western Libya’s military chief and four others who were killed in a plane crash in Turkey. The coffins of General Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad and…
December 29, 2025
Debate over surfing gets gnarly after city removes wave-creating device
FRANKFURT (AP): A debate over how to bring back surfing in Germany’s landmark English Garden escalated on Sunday after city workers removed a beam surreptitiously deployed over Christmas to restore a…
December 29, 2025
‘Clarity, cohesion, strategic discipline’
CMC: Outgoing Caribbean Community (CARICOM) chairman, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, has reiterated the need for the region to remain a ‘Zone of Peace’ grounded in respect for international law, the…
December 29, 2025
by Neil Armstrong
Massey College Fellowship to allow professor to complete major projects
Dr Hyacinth Simpson, a Jamaican-Canadian associate professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), has been named a 2025-2026 Massey College Visiting…
December 29, 2025
New York subway ends MetroCard era, switches fully to tap-and-go fares
NEW YORK (AP): When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity into one of the world’s oldest and largest transit systems.…
December 29, 2025
Concerned about unqualified solar power professionals
THE EDITOR, Madam: In the wake of Hurricane Melissa and the ongoing challenges with our electricity supply, more people are turning to solar power. Unfortunately, the rapid growth of the solar…
December 29, 2025
Angela Lekan | Time to let nature walk the runway
When it’s New York Fashion Week, and before we stop to admire the glitz and glamour, we need to celebrate fashion and beauty’s ultimate, timeless inspiration: Nature. For centuries, designers have…
December 29, 2025
Editorial | Mr Symmonds is right
Barbados’ foreign minister, Kerrie Symmonds, has given his “superiors” – as he refers to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government – very sound advice. He has urged them to gather “behind…