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Glenmuir High School in May Pen, Clarendon.
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Glenmuir High back in full swing after Hurricane Melissa

With Hurricane Melissa disrupting high schools across rural Jamaica – many still unable to resume full classes because of infrastructural damage – Glenmuir High in May Pen, Clarendon, has emerged as a…
Berger Paints Jamaica General Manager, Dwaine Williams, inspects the buckets before their deployment to support Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts.
11 Nov, 2025 0

Corporate Hands | BPJL partners with private sectors’ hurricane relief programme to provide water relief to central and western parishes

Berger Paints Jamaica Limited (BPJL) has joined forces with the private sectors’ hurricane relief programme to provide essential water relief to communities across central and western Jamaica affected…
General manager, store operations, Dionne Smallhorn adding Tru Shake to the care package bags.
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Corporate Hands | Fontana Pharmacy extends support to hurricane-affected communities, shut-ins in MoBay

Following the passage of Hurricane Melissa on October 28, the western end of Jamaica, particularly the parishes of St James, St Elizabeth, and Westmoreland, experienced significant damage and…
Students of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech, Jamaica) who were impacted by Hurricane Melissa received care packages donated by the Victoria Mutual Foundation during a handover ceremony held on November 7, at Lecture Theatre 50 at the Shared Fa
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Corporate Hands | VM Foundation donates care packages to UTech students

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Dwight Fletcher | Lordship demands a response

C.S. LEWIS is famously known for giving us three options as to the identity of Jesus – Lord, liar or lunatic. In his book Mere Christianity, Lewis explains that Jesus makes blatant claims about…
Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis.
10 Nov, 2025 0

Real-time audit

The Auditor General’s Department is conducting a real-time audit to assess the transparency and accountability of resources received and utilised under the Hurricane Melissa relief initiative. The…
The plane crashed into a pond in a residential neighbourhood of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
10 Nov, 2025 0

RELIEF TRAGEDY

FLORIDA (AP): A small turboprop plane on a hurricane relief mission to Jamaica crashed Monday morning into a pond in a gated residential neighbourhood of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs,…
An ODPEM convoy at toll booth at Mammee Bay, St Ann, delivering relief supplies to storm‑hit parishes.
10 Nov, 2025 0

Relief convoys caught off guard by reimposed toll fees

The reinstatement of toll fees at the Mammee Bay toll plaza on Monday caused a major build-up of traffic as scores of relief vehicles heading to Western Jamaica were held up while toll operators tried…
Acting Director General of JACRA, Wayne Hunter, listens intently as coffee stakeholders raise their concerns following the passage of Hurricane Melissa. 
10 Nov, 2025 0

JACRA assessing damage to agricultural industries it regulates

The Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), regulators of Jamaica’s coffee, cocoa, coconut, nutmeg, turmeric, ginger, and pimento industries, is seeking to assure players in…