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Murray and Ashley McKenzie, school groundsman and janitor, watch closely as Don Jorgensen, rapid response team leader for Global Medic, works on the UV water filter.
26 Dec, 2025 0

Blauwearie gets drinkable water from Global Medic

Western Bureau: For years, students at Blauwearie Primary and Infant School relied on water from a nearby stream, rain catchment and bottled supplies, never fully certain if the water they had access…
Keliesha Fearon, a resident of St Elizabeth and a JWN Foundation volunteer, prepares paint to help with the rebuilding efforts.
26 Dec, 2025 0

‘I won’t have to worry anymore’

For 33-year-old Nichola Smith, the approach of Hurricane Melissa brought days of fear and uncertainty. Living in Balaclava, St Elizabeth, Smith, who shares her home with five members of her household,…
Digicel Foundation CEO Charmaine Daniels (right) hands over $300,000 worth of hardware vouchers to Sadie Brisstell, administrative assistant at West Haven Children’s Home, during a visit to the facility in Hanover.
26 Dec, 2025 0

Digicel Foundation brings holiday cheer with hardware vouchers

The Digicel Foundation is distributing of $30 million in Hardware and Lumber Limited vouchers to support home repairs and rebuilding efforts, with a strong focus on western Jamaica, where communities…
People relax along Hellshire Beach in St Catherine.
26 Dec, 2025 0

No ‘box dung’ on Boxing Day

A few days ago, I overheard a conversation between a young mother and her daughter, who looked about six years old. The child wanted to know why Boxing Day is so called, and when it is. The mother…
Professor Donovan Campbell
26 Dec, 2025 0

UWI scientists play key role in UN flagship environmental report

Scientists from the University of the West Indies (UWI) have once again placed the Caribbean at the centre of global environmental discourse, playing a key role in the research, analysis, and…
Alex Johnson, head of the Faith Chapel of Faith Apostolic Ministries Health and Welness Department, attends to a patient on December 13 at the Mother Lewis AME Church in Shrewsbury, Westmoreland.
26 Dec, 2025 0

Faith steps in where Melissa left scars

More than 100 residents of the Shrewsbury and Logwood districts in Petersfield, Westmoreland received much-needed health and social services on December 13, as Faith Apostolic Ministries continued its…
Steve Beaver, co-owner of Geejam Hotel.
26 Dec, 2025 0

Hoteliers rallying around communities affected by Melissa

Across Jamaica, in tourist destinations minimally affected by Hurricane Melissa – from Montego Bay, St James to Ocho Rios, St Ann; Port Antonio in Portland and Kingston – hoteliers are helping their…
Robert Almeida, CEO of NCB Financial Group Limited (centre), shares a moment with Maurice Dawson (left), customer care agent, and Cordell Brown, business banker at NCB Fairview Financial Centre, before surprising them with a Grant a Wish donation to help c
26 Dec, 2025 0

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…
CIBC Caribbean’s Head of Country, Annique Dawkins and Sherian McDonald, senior manager deals management, present gifts to a ward of the state at the United Way of Jamaica’s annual ‘Bringing Cheer to Children in State Care’ initiative.
26 Dec, 2025 0

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…