Residents of Rose Heights, St James, are fiercely rejecting the police’s claim that three men killed on Monday died in a shoot-out, insisting instead that the incident was an execution. They argue the men never fired at officers and that no...
Small Businesses Association of Jamaica President Garnett Reid is calling on Jamaicans to peacefully demonstrate against the seven per cent electricity rate increase approved for JPS, arguing that the timing is unacceptable as the nation struggles...
In this delightful throwback series, photographer Junior Dowie documented the reactions of visitors to the animals — and the animals’ often hilarious reactions right back.
Sixteen under-19 footballers from Brazil, accompanied by five officials and famed coach Vicente Feola, received an enthusiastic welcome as they arrived at Palisadoes Airport for their Jamaica tour. Greeted by Kingston College Old Boys’...
Blurb: Fresh off a successful American tour, the Blues Busters returned home with big news: a four-year recording contract with Capitol Records. The duo, Philip James and Lloyd Campbell, recorded two of their hit songs, Behold and Tell Me Why,...
Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips spent a bustling day in Jamaica, moving from their warm airport welcome to a series of official engagements across the Corporate Area. The Royal couple lunched at King’s House, toured the Lister Mair-...
Sir Alexander Bustamante used his conference address to caution Jamaicans about the dangers he believed Russia posed to the democratic world. Pointing to the Soviet presence in Cuba and its stockpiling of weapons, he insisted that the threat...
Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 9:58 AMBANG Bizarre
Published in Clinical Otolaryngology, the review argues that olfactory disorders affect around 20 per cent of the population, with even higher rates in men and people over 60. These diseases include dementia, Parkinson’s, chronic sinus...
Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 9:55 AMBANG Bizarre
A South Korean study has found that curcumin - the antioxidant, anti-inflammatory compound that gives turmeric its golden glow - can help flush alcohol from the bloodstream faster. Researchers handed curcumin supplements to 27 men and women before...
Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 9:52 AMBANG Bizarre
The trend has taken off online, driven by claims that adding salt makes coffee taste sweeter and helps people cut back on sugar. But specialists say the science simply doesn’t stack up. Psychologist Dr Eleanor Bryant explains that salt can...
Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 9:48 AMBANG Bizarre
Theobromine - a chemical compound naturally found in cacao plants and described as a “relatively unexplored dietary phytonutrient" - is in the sweet treat, and it has been loosely linked to longer lifespans. Experts at King’s...
Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 9:43 AMBANG Bizarre
Social media isn’t just stealing children's time — it’s chipping away at their ability to focus. Researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and Oregon Health and Science University followed 8,324 children from age...
LONDON: Around the world, in rich and poor countries alike, public budget constraints are limiting efforts to address social ills and fueling political polarization. Desperate for fiscal headroom, outcomes-based partnerships (OPs) that can attract...
MEXICO CITY: Aggressive anti-immigrant policies have been a hallmark of US President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House, and this appears unlikely to change in 2026. A growing number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE...
PRINCETON: We have become so accustomed to aspiring autocrats attacking universities that we hardly ever stop to ask why. But pushing back against authoritarians requires understanding their motivations and strategies. University leaders, in...
NEW YORK: Nearly four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the push to end the war is intensifying. Diplomacy over the past few weeks has produced not one but two proposals as American envoys shuttle between Kyiv and Moscow....
LONDON : The leaders' declaration adopted at the end of the recent G20 summit in South Africa reaffirmed the group's commitment to tackling some of the world's most pressing challenges, from inequality and long-running conflicts to AI...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist's pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week's past line-up of cartoons as...
Hurricane Melissa has exposed deep cracks in Jamaica's early childhood education system, where many young children were already struggling long before the storm hit. With hundreds of basic schools damaged and no clear policy guiding how the...
Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says restoration work on 13 hurricane-damaged operating theatres across five western hospitals is expected to be completed by February 2026, at an estimated cost of US$7.1 million (J$1.13 billion). Only three...
Participants in a Ministry of Health and Wellness webinar were left shaken after hackers repeatedly hijacked the virtual meeting, flooding screens with pornography and racist messages in a disturbing case of zoombombing. The intrusion forced...
A female vendor and two men who staged knifepoint robberies while posing as a taxi crew have been jailed, with all three blaming financial struggles for their crimes. Subrina Martin, 33, who robbed a police constable and later a couple in 2020,...
Twenty residents, including eight children, have been left homeless after a fast-moving fire tore through three houses on Mountain View Avenue in St Andrew on Thursday. The blaze, which began around 11:20 a.m., forced families to flee with only the...
With more than 1,000 Jamaicans still living in emergency shelters nearly six weeks after Hurricane Melissa, ODPEM is accelerating relocation efforts so schools being used as shelters can resume normal operations. Director General Alvin Gayle told...
Clarendon residents sprang into action after a six-year-old girl was taken from her school by an unidentified man, triggering parish-wide panic. The abduction was thwarted when Councillor Scean Barnswell spotted a man walking with a child in a St...
