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Scientists say record-breaking heat is a reminder of how climate crisis is affecting lives The fierce heat sweeping Europe over the bank holiday weekend has beaten the UK’s all-time temperature record for May, with highs of up to 35C still to come on Monday afternoon. A temperature of 33.5C was recorded at London’s Heathrow on Monday lunchtime, according to provisional data from the Met Offfice, beating the previous May record that was set in Camden Square in 1922 and reached again in Tunbridge Wells and Regent’s Park in 1944. Continue reading...

All victims of US strikes in eastern Pacific and the Caribbean identified so far came from extremely poor communities

It seems that in some quarters, the terrible impact of Hurricane Melissa, more than six months ago, has been under-estimated. The suffering of our human population, while well documented, still needs considerable attention. The cost (a heavy toll, indeed) to our natural environment is, it seems, still being tallied. Since Jamaica lost more than half of its forest cover (and we are not talking about a few broken branches; we are talking about trees stripped of every leaf, and larger, ancient trees uprooted) one can assume that most of the living creatures that depended on that forest were destroyed.

Member of Parliament for St Ann South Eastern Dr Kenneth Russell has expressed “deep concerns” about the police fatal shooting of two men in the community of Steerfield, even as he urged angry residen...

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

Netanyahu's participation, despite an ICC warrant, will add to concerns over the objectivity of the board.

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People of Jamaican coastal town described as storm’s ground zero are traumatised and desperate for help

The Cayman Islands Blood Bank, operated by the Health Services Authority, has dispatched a critical donation of 51 units of red cells and 72 units of plasma to the National Blood Transfusion Service (Blood Bank) in Jamaica today. This marks the...

Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects. The country was until this month one of the only places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica. Continue reading...

Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths

The Integrity Commission (IC), Jamaica’s leading anti-corruption agency, has been operating without three of its top leaders for weeks – a development that could significantly undermine its ability to...

Protesters gathered outside the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St James on Sunday afternoon, calling for regional leaders attending the 49th CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting to sever diplomatic t...

  ST JAMES, Jamaica— The St James Municipal Corporation were again on the move, removing illegally placed signs, this time in the vicinity of the Sangster International Airport. On Friday mor...

The St. James Municipal Corporation has removed several illegally placed 'Free Palestine' posters that were erected across Mon