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Restoration work on a section of the Maggotty High School in St Elizabeth, several months after it sustained structural damage during the passage of the Category 5 Hurricane Melissa on October 28, 2025.
02 Aug, 2026 0

Schools in race against time - Despite damage delays, principals expect grade seven intakes to hold steady

WESTERN BUREAU: While some administrators of Hurricane Melissa-battered schools don’t anticipate any major shifts in numbers in their customary intake of new students for the upcoming academic year,…
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02 Aug, 2026 0

Pothole pain - Motorists pay hefty bills as repairs keep returning

Ruel Hudson is a jack of all trades. He also sometimes operates as a taxi driver, using his Subaru Imprezza to earn an income. That work comes at a steep cost. A regular visitor to his mechanic in…
A section of the roadway along Wellington Drive near Mona, St Andrew.
02 Aug, 2026 0

Fixing roads or repeating the cycle?

As the Government undertakes its $45-billion Shared Prosperity through Accelerated Improvement to our Road Network (SPARK) programme, questions are being raised about whether road repairs and…
 Rev Gabriel Agbo
02 Aug, 2026 0

Gabriel Agbo | The bones will rise again!

Your dream is coming back to life! Every part of your life will be healed today. Yes, the bones will rise again! What could be more lifeless, ashen, and hopeless than the dry bones in the valley…
Major-Campbell
02 Aug, 2026 0

Sean Major Campbell | Celebrate with gratitude and hope

We again celebrate this wonderful season when we bring focus to Emancipation and Independence. The word ‘Emancipendence’ has crept into our vocabulary. Understandably so because of convenience.…
02 Aug, 2026 0

Dwight Fletcher | If you could go back ... would you?

If you were given one chance to go back in time and change a single moment in your life, would you take it? This week, as we celebrate Emancipation Day and Independence Day, it’s natural for us to…
02 Aug, 2026 0

Yaakov Raskin | Loving and fearing – What the fisherman knows about G-d

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt uttered these words, which is arguably the best-known political quote in American history.
Miriam Singer, CEO of Jewish Community Services of South Florida, pauses as she speaks of the home health workers she had to let go after their TPS expired last week in Miami Beach, Florida.
02 Aug, 2026 0

More than workers - Immigration crackdown threatens Haitian caregivers and the seniors who rely on them

NEW YORK (AP): Who will be there each morning with Solange French’s eggs at breakfast, and who will be ready with soup or fish at lunch? When the 91-year-old needs help in the shower, who will rush to…
Sargassum gathers in the water off the coast of Tulum, Mexico, last Thursday.
02 Aug, 2026 0

‘None of this is normal’ - Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico beaches swathed in record levels of seaweed

PUERTO MORELOS, Mexico (AP): Swaths of seaweed are blanketing the beaches and coastlines of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, suffocating shorelines and snuffing out marine life while spooking…