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Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) Customer Care Area Manager, Le-Var Allen, addressing the St Mary Municipal Corporation’s Infrastructure and Traffic Management Committee monthly meeting on Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
17 Sep, 2026 0

JPS to regularise mobile office in St Mary

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is moving to regularise the use of its mobile office in St Mary, following a successful staging in Port Maria on September 8. JPS Customer Care Area Manager,…
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17 Sep, 2026 0

Fatal police shooting in Bog Walk

A man was fatally shot by the police during an alleged confrontation in High Mountain district in Bog Walk, St Catherine, on Wednesday. He has been identified as 35-year-old Dywane Edwards, otherwise…
17 Sep, 2026 0

Pathways Ministries Trial | My daughter and pastor Kevin Smith were not in a relationship, father of murder victim testifies

The father of Taneka Gardner, who was allegedly killed during a sacrificial ritual at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James in 2021, this morning denied that his…
Bahía de las Águilas, National Recreation Area within a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Hispaniola. Photo: Kurt Prospere/CBF.
17 Sep, 2026 0

Earth Today | Learning from climate-resilience approaches in Hispaniola

TUCKED INTO the southwest corner of Hispaniola, where the Dominican Republic meets Haiti, lies a stretch of land and sea unlike almost anywhere else on Earth. Mountains give way to dry forest, dry…
17 Sep, 2026 0

Earth Today | Integrated action said key to solving the world’s climate, clean air woes

WITH THE world appearing set to exceed, if only temporarily, 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming while air pollution claims the lives of millions each year, there is an urgent call to action for an…
Volunteers work together to remove garbage from the Port Royal Beach as part of a beach clean-up activity hosted by the European Union Delegation to Jamaica, in recognition of an earlier International Coastal Clean-Up Day.
17 Sep, 2026 0

Earth Today | ‘Away is a place’

THE JAMAICA Environment Trust (JET) is challenging the public – individuals and organisations alike – to take stock of what happens after their solid waste leaves their hands with the observance of…