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Senator Ramon Small-Ferguson.
17 Oct, 2026 0

Senator calls for targeted pension plan for farmers

Drawing on a 2024 Financial Services Commission (FSC) report, opposition senator Ramon Small-Ferguson has highlighted the low participation of Jamaican farmers in private pension schemes, with fewer…
British High Commissioner Alicia Herbert (fourth left) is flocked by (from left) Councillors Brian Chambers, Darren Barnes and Andria Dehaney-Grant; Custos Lennox Jackson; Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels; Heatha Miller-Bennett, member of parliament for Hanove
17 Oct, 2026 0

British high commissioner opens line of cooperation with HMC

WESTERN BUREAU: British High Commissioner Alicia Herbert has opened a line of cooperation with the administrators and staff at the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC). Herbert, who began her tour of…
17 Oct, 2026 0

When gossip protects coworkers – and when it backfires

NEW YORK (AP): Stephanie Joseph was working at a television station when someone started a false rumour claiming she and a married colleague were romantically involved. Joseph, then 20, barely knew…
16 Oct, 2026 0

HIV CARE GAP - AHF calls for strategy to get thousands more on treatment; ministry says social barriers keeping patients away

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Jamaica is calling for urgent action to reach the thousands of people living with HIV in Jamaica who are not receiving treatment. In a statement yesterday, the…
His court date is being finalised.
16 Oct, 2026 0

19-y-o charged with Kidd Lane triple murder

A 19-year-old man has been charged with three counts of murder in connection with last Friday’s deadly attack on Kidd Lane, off Spanish Town Road in St Andrew, which claimed the lives of two women and…
Former Education Minister Ruel Reid.
16 Oct, 2026 0

Ruel Reid named in evidence on six retail purchases in fraud trial

A smart television and a foot spa were among six items former Education Minister Ruel Reid purchased from a retail chain over a near five-week period in 2018, according to evidence of a witness in his…
Outside the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Montego Bay on October 18, 2021, hours after the deadly service.
16 Oct, 2026 0

Ruddock was beaten, threatened into confession, defence claims

Defence counsel Anthony Williams on Thursday sought to portray his client, murder accused Andre Ruddock, as a man who never confessed to the police to killing his church sister but was beaten,…
A section of the Falmouth Cemetery in Trelawny.
16 Oct, 2026 0

Trelawny councillor wants funeral homes to pay for public burial spots

WESTERN BUREAU: Garth Wilkinson, councillor for the Falmouth division in the Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC), wants funeral homes to pay a fee to secure burial spots in public cemeteries to help…
Anthony Thompson, whose body was found with the head severed at his farm on September 9.
16 Oct, 2026 0

Cops suspect dog severed farmer’s head after natural death

WESTERN BUREAU: The St James police have ruled out murder in the death of 74-year-old Maroon Town farmer Anthony ‘Tony’ Thompson, whose body was found with the head detached. Instead, they now suspect…