📰 The Story of Jonkonnu: A Masquerade of Rebellion and Identity
Around this time each year, conversations resurface lamenting the loss of Christmas traditions, particularly Jonkonnu. Too often, these reflections amount to little more than nostalgic fodder — a reminder that we once practised something ko...
Source: Jamaicans and Jamaica – Jamaicans.com
https://jamaicans.com/the-story-of-jonkonnu-a-masquerade-of-rebellion-and-identity/
📰 The Story of Jonkonnu: A Masquerade of Rebellion and Identity
Around this time each year, conversations resurface lamenting the loss of Christmas traditions, particularly Jonkonnu. Too often, these reflections amount to little more than nostalgic fodder — a reminder that we once practised something kool as a cu...
Source: Jamaicans and Jamaica – Jamaicans.com
https://jamaicans.com/the-story-of-jonkonnu-a-masquerade-of-rebellion-and-identity/
📰 UWJ, CIBC deliver holiday cheer to children with movie night
The United Way of Jamaica (UWJ) , in partnership with title sponsor CIBC Caribbean, recently hosted a movie night for 210 children and 35 caregivers from 10 children’s homes across Jamaica. The event which was held at Carib 5 in Cross Road...
Source: News
📰 NCB CEO grants wishes of two fathers with children battling cancer
“Without my community, I don’t know how I would survive,” shared Cordell Brown, a business banker at NCB’s Baywest branch in St James. “This donation is coming from home. NCB has been my backbone through this journey, and this contribution ...
Source: News
📰 WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL: A Worship Born in the Dark
It is the day after Christmas. As we prepare to close the chapter on this Christmas season, a few things are worth remembering. Christmas did not begin in comfort, celebration, or certainty. It began in obscurity, inconvenience, and unmet e...
Source: Jamaicans and Jamaica – Jamaicans.com
https://jamaicans.com/weekly-devotional-a-worship-born-in-the-dark/
📰 WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL: A Worship Born in the Dark
It is the day after Christmas. As we prepare to close the chapter on this Christmas season, a few things are worth remembering. Christmas did not begin in comfort, celebration, or certainty. It began in obscurity, inconvenience, and unmet expectation...
Source: Jamaicans and Jamaica – Jamaicans.com
https://jamaicans.com/weekly-devotional-a-worship-born-in-the-dark/
📰 5 Questions With Mortimer
It was a day of food, fun, fashion, and plenty of gift ideas at Sunday’s Kingston Creative Art Walk Festival Gran’ Market edition, the final staging of the year. Booth holders and artisans turned out in large numbers, offering clothing, ca...
Source: Entertainment
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/entertainment/20251226/5-questions-mortimer
📰 The road to Miss Global Jamaica 2026 begins
The road to crowning Jamaica’s next global queen, following reigning representative Keri-Ann Greenwood’s first-runner-up finish at the 2025 Miss Global competition, officially began on December 21 with the launch of Miss Global Jamaica 2026...
Source: Entertainment
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/entertainment/20251226/road-miss-global-jamaica-2026-begins
📰 Models shine but revenues ebb at Pulse
Pulse Investments Limited has reported a decline in revenue for the quarter ended September 2025, despite its models getting placements in high-profile events. It underscores challenges for the lifestyle and entertainment group. Unaudited...
Source: Business
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20251226/models-shine-revenues-ebb-pulse
📰 Baked-in costs at Honey Bun’s new facility burns cash
Honey Bun Ltd closed its September 2025 year with higher sales but a markedly thinner bottom line, as the commissioning of its new Angels, St Catherine bakery drew heavily on cash, borrowings, and operating expenses. It was a deliberate t...
Source: Business
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20251226/baked-costs-honey-buns-new-facility-burns-cash
📰 Letter of the Day | Listening is most urgent reform
THE EDITOR, Madam: Jamaica’s long-term stability and progress depend on whether policymakers remain connected to the people they serve. At this moment, the most urgent reform facing the country is the practice of listening. The new generat...
Source: Letters
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/letters/20251226/letter-day-listening-most-urgent-reform
📰 Sensible legal reform for adolescent sexual justice
THE EDITOR, Madam: We join Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) in calling on legislators to introduce a narrowly defined statutory close-in-age defence to Jamaica’s sexual offences framework. Such a reform would ensure that no criminal offence ari...
Source: Letters
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/letters/20251226/sensible-legal-reform-adolescent-sexual-justice
📰 Heavy-duty payout
The Supreme Court has ordered Jamaica North South Highway Company Limited and China Harbour Engineering Company Limited to pay heavy-duty truck driver Leon Mais $4,100,829.23 in damages, after finding them negligent in relation to a 2015 cr...
Source: Lead Stories
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20251226/heavy-duty-payout
📰 Hope in motion
A paraplegic senior displaced by hurricane damage is regaining a measure of independence, thanks to swift community action and quiet generosity in Green Island, Westmoreland. The woman, Claudette Quest from Glenbrook, Westmoreland, has been...
Source: Lead Stories
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20251226/hope-motion
📰 Barnes saw it coming... but coach 'disappointed' he was cut ahead of Gold Cup
GIVEN the financial position of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), John Barnes had resigned...
Source: Sport Jamaica Headlines
📰 Austin eyes move to Aston Villa
English Premier League giants Aston Villa are weighing up a bid for Jamaica's ace central midfielder,...
Source: Sport Jamaica Headlines
📰 Letter of the Day | Whose oil is it – Venezuela’s or US’s?
THE EDITOR, Madam: ‘Trump’s ‘oily’ reasoning is not entirely unreasonable, as it is ExxonMobil that added their technology to the raw material to create Venezuela’s wealth from oil in the finding and processing of the resource. Now America...
Source: Letters
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/letters/20251224/letter-day-whose-oil-it-venezuelas-or-uss
📰 Renaming, scripture, and cultural memory
THE EDITOR, Madam: Attorney-at-law Bert Samuels raises an important and timely concern about language, power, and identity in post-emancipation societies. His reference to Roots, adapted from the work of Alex Haley, is apt: the renaming of...
Source: Letters
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/letters/20251224/renaming-scripture-and-cultural-memory
📰 Turkey detains dozens of IS suspects planning attacks on Christmas and New Year celebrations
ISTANBUL (AP) — Istanbul police launched scores of simultaneous raids on Thursday, detaining over a hundred suspected members of the militant Islamic State group who were allegedly planning attacks against Christmas and New Year’s celebrati...
Source: News
📰 Man killed, several injured in multi-vehicle crash in St Mary
A man was killed and several others injured in a crash along the Oracabessa main road in St Mary early Christmas morning. The deceased has been identified by the police as 58-year-old Devon Anthony Baldie. According to the police, at......
Source: News
📰 US Carries Out Christmas Day Airstrikes Against Islamic State Targets in Nigeria
The United States carried out airstrikes in northwest Nigeria on Christmas Day, targeting Islamic State militants accused of attacking Christian communities in the region. The operation was conducted at the request of the Nigerian government, accordi...
Source: YARDHYPE
📰 Formerly Conjoined Twins Spends First Christmas Separated: See Photos and Videos
Fresh images and videos shared on Christmas Day have brought renewed optimism surrounding Azaria and Azora Elson, the Jamaican twins who were separated in Saudi Arabia last month. Their mother posted the updates online on December 25, showing both in...
Source: YARDHYPE
📰 Venezuela Issues Warning to Trinidad and Tobago Over US Military Support
A senior Venezuelan government minister has issued a sharp warning to Trinidad and Tobago, accusing the twin-island state of allowing the United States to use its territory as part of a military build-up directed at Venezuela. Speaking on behalf of t...
Source: YARDHYPE
https://yardhype.com/venezuela-issues-warning-to-trinidad-and-tobago-over-us-military-support/
📰 Swooosh Boss Drops Early Dancehall Influenced ‘Top General’ Album
Veteran deejay Swooosh Boss released his latest album, ‘Top General‘, a 13-track project rooted in the sound and spirit of 1980s and 90s Dancehall and Reggae. For the album, the New York-based artiste draws heavily on classic sounding rhythms and con...
Source: YARDHYPE
https://yardhype.com/swooosh-boss-drops-early-dancehall-influenced-top-general-album/
📰 ‘Mi Rahtid’, Jamaican grandma turns social media star serving up recipes
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Source: Jamaica Observer
📰 ‘Mi Rahtid’, Jamaican grandma turns social media star serving up recipes
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Source: Jamaica Observer
📰 Faith-based recovery
Faith-based recovery...
Source: Jamaica Observer
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/12/25/faith-based-recovery/
📰 Four murders spark Christmas lockdown for Manchester communities
Four murders spark Christmas lockdown for Manchester communities...
Source: Jamaica Observer
📰 Strictly 2K Throwback festival celebrates 9th anniversary
Strictly 2K Throwback festival celebrates 9th anniversary...
Source: Jamaica Observer
📰 Christmas magic
Christmas magic...
Source: Jamaica Observer
📰 Joy Drive
Joy Drive...
Source: Jamaica Observer
📰 Faith-based recovery
Faith-based recovery...
Source: Jamaica Observer
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/12/25/faith-based-recovery/
📰 Four murders spark Christmas lockdown for Manchester communities
Four murders spark Christmas lockdown for Manchester communities...
Source: Jamaica Observer
📰 Strictly 2K Throwback festival celebrates 9th anniversary
Strictly 2K Throwback festival celebrates 9th anniversary...
Source: Jamaica Observer
📰 Christmas magic
Christmas magic...
Source: Jamaica Observer
📰 The Story of the Christmas Rebellion: Remembering a Defining Act of Resistance that Changed History
On Christmas Day in 1831, as plantation owners gathered to celebrate and enslaved Africans were granted a brief respite from forced labour, Jamaica stood at the edge of a historic rupture. What unfolded would become the largest uprising of enslaved p...
Source: Jamaicans and Jamaica – Jamaicans.com
📰 Joy Drive
Joy Drive...
Source: Jamaica Observer
📰 Bounty killer’s son, Major Myjah gets ‘Cross Angry & Miserable’ at Vlogger
The same vlogger who Vybz Kartel reportedly told to give Bounty Killer a break, One Kevin went as far as to drag Bounty Killer’s son Major Myjah into his bashing of the 53-year-old veteran Dancehaller, days ago. “Memba enuh Bounty Killer… not even yo...
Source: YARDHYPE
https://yardhype.com/bounty-killers-son-major-myjah-gets-cross-angry-miserable-at-vlogger/