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Wayne Wesley
March 9, 2026

CXC prepares for historic gathering of Caribbean education stakeholders in Jamaica

More than 300 education leaders, policymakers, and practitioners from across the Caribbean – including regional ministers of education – are set to converge in Jamaica next week to discuss the future…
(From left) Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Fayval Williams, Marcia Bent, CBFFAJ president and Anthony Hylton, opposition spokesman on trade, industry and global logistics at the CBFFAJ 60th Anniversary Church Service.
March 9, 2026

Thanksgiving service marks CBFFAJ’s 60 years of service to trade and logistics sector

The Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Association of Jamaica (CBFFAJ) commemorated its 60th anniversary – a Diamond Jubilee – with a Thanksgiving Church Service, marking six decades of…
Discovery Bauxite at Discovery Bay, St Ann.
March 9, 2026

Lance Neita | Bauxite industry poised for new opportunities

The bauxite/alumina industry will mark its 75th anniversary next year. The history of industrial activity within the sector started in 1952 with Alcan’s first alumina shipment in January of that year…
(From left) Tameka McNish Miller, guidance counsellor, Irwin High School; Elizabeth Terry, Founder/CEO, Limitless Transformation Coaching & Training Services Ltd; Catherina Patterson, regional training manager, e-Learning Jamaica Company Ltd; Katherine Gar
March 9, 2026

Youth development app gets JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation support

The JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the JMMB Group, has announced its support of the UNUH edutainment app pilot programme at Irwin High School in St James. The foundation…
Madge Sanderson, head of St Elizabeth Education and Therapeutic Centre.
March 9, 2026 by Kimone Francis

Forgotten learners

Months after Hurricane Melissa tore through western Jamaica, administrators and students at several special-needs institutions remain in a desperate battle for survival, grappling with a sluggish…
A woman walks with a baby in her arms past people lined up to buy bread during a blackout in Havana, Cuba,
March 9, 2026

Letter of the Day | Our silence will not protect us

THE EDITOR, Madam:
In this 2020 photo doctors form up during a farewell ceremony as they get ready to leave for Italy to help with the new coronavirus pandemic, in Havana, Cuba.
March 9, 2026

Slap in the face of Caribbean solidarity

THE EDITOR, Madam: Jamaica ended its nearly 50-year medical cooperation programme with Cuba, which raises serious concerns about the future of healthcare access and educational opportunity in our…
Letters
March 9, 2026

Time to pause, not celebrate confrontation in Iran

THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing with reference to the letter to the editor ‘Moral clarity on Iran’. Let me state clearly. You will not find many Muslims defending the authoritarian rule of Ayatollah…
Uncollected garbage overflows onto the streets in Cave Valley, St Ann, earlier this year.
March 9, 2026

NSWMA to tackle garbage backlog

Minister of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie says the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is working to clear a backlog of garbage across the country,…