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Photo by Raymond Graham Kellits High school’s netball players Shanay (left), Sheamoy (second left), and Shenelle Stewart (right) pose with their coach, Alaine Rochester just after their ISSA Rural Under-16 match against Denbigh High School on Thursday.
December 9, 2025 by Raymond Graham

Triplets pour sisterly love into Kellits’ netball

TRIPLETS ARE a rarity, triplets excelling at the same sport, even more so. At Kellits High School, triplets play on the same under-16 netball team. Fifteen-year-olds Shanay, Sheamoy, and Shenelle…
Pamela Lawson, managing director of the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, shares a playful moment with a dog at one of the organisation’s facilities.
December 9, 2025 by Tiffany Pryce

‘Not enough hands’

Pamela Lawson, managing director of the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA), has painted a worrying picture of the country’s animals in the wake of Hurricane Melissa,…
Dr Christopher Tufton
December 9, 2025

Tourists safe despite leptospirosis outbreak, says Tufton

Minister of Health & Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has sought to assure that the current leptospirosis outbreak poses no great risk to tourists coming to Jamaica. Tufton said health authorities…
Photos by Antoine Lodge Family and friends gather in Westmoreland for a repast following the funeral of Cleveland Jeffery, lost during Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Corey Robinson

Nowhere for the living, nowhere for the dead

A Westmoreland family is caught between grief and survival in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. On Friday, as they gathered to lay their brother, Cleveland Wayne – affectionately called “Gramps”—…
Balvin Thorpe writes: The deaths we have already seen in Jamaica from carbon monoxide poisoning are preventable.
December 9, 2025

Balvin Thorpe | Jamaica cannot afford another preventable generator death

The aftermath of Hurricane Melissa has revealed more than just infrastructural damage – it has uncovered a dangerous pattern of preventable household tragedies. In the weeks following the storm, the…
From left: St Andrae Sinclair, regional director, Western Regional Health Authority; Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of health and wellness; Lt Comm Anderson Goodridge, commander of the Barbados emergency medical team; and Captain Dr Ayana Crichlow, clini
December 9, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

Westmoreland field hospital to open this week

WESTERN BUREAU: The country’s third field hospital – a Type 2 full-service medical facility gifted by Barbados – will be fully operational before the end of this week on the grounds of the…
A Montego Bay resident collects water at the Operation Blessing headquarters on the Trumpet Call Ministries grounds in Montego Bay, St James.
December 9, 2025 by Janet Silvera

Blessing across the west

WESTERN BUREAU When Hurricane Melissa tore through western Jamaica on October 28, flattening homes, schools, and entire communities, Pastor Mary Wildish’s church, Trumpet Call Ministries, became a…
Students make the most of their temporary classroom, learning and laughing under the guidance of Elaine Morgan.
December 9, 2025 by Janet Silvera

Learning triumphs over disaster

WESTERN BUREAU: When Hurricane Melissa ripped the roof off Dumfries Primary and left children wandering aimlessly across Lima, St James, veteran teacher Elaine Morgan refused to let the storm steal…
December 9, 2025

17-y-o accused of shooting man arrested and charged after turning up at hospital with gunshot wound

A 17-year-old Hanover boy has been arrested and charged for the shooting of a man in Lucea. He was taken into custody recently after he turned up at a hospital with a gunshot wound. He is charged…