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The JMMB Group team poses for a photo at the recently held client mixer Cocktails and Conversations at S Hotel, Montego Bay.
March 30, 2026

JMMB hosts Cocktails and Conversations mixer in MoBay

The JMMB Group’s Montego Bay team recently hosted a Cocktails and Conversations mixer for its clients, at S Hotel, Montego Bay. The evening brought together long-standing clients, partners and team…
From left: Racquel Whyte, English Language and Literature teacher; Jamar Grant, head of the Literature Department, and Tanisha Bent, spell mistress.
March 30, 2026 by Mickalia Kington

Spellbinding success

First-form student Tahirah Lyn outspelled the competition to emerge as the top girl and overall winner of Godfrey Stewart High School’s spelling bee, capping weeks of disciplined preparation with a…
Attendees at the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission stakeholder meeting last Wednesday at the Chinese Benevolent Association.
March 30, 2026

Gaming machines spike sparks BGLC to upgrade oversight

Rapid growth in the prevalence of gaming machines in Jamaica, coupled with concerns about the threat of financial crime, weak oversight and reputational risk, has prompted sweeping regulatory reforms…
Principal of Hartfield Basic School, Carlene Miller (centre), shares the impact of the recovery work being done through the Education Restart Programme with Project STAR Project Director Saffrey Brown and High Commissioner of Canada to Jamaica, Mark Berman
March 30, 2026

Education restart programme set up to support storm-hit schools in the west

Project STAR, in partnership with the High Commission of Canada in Jamaica through the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI), has launched the Project STAR Hurricane Melissa Educational Re-Start…
Lesa Esson. (Contributed photo)
March 30, 2026

Missing St Andrew woman found safe, says family.

Lesa Esson, the 74-year-old St Andrew woman who was reported missing from her home in Mona Commons, Papine, has been found. Her family confirmed her safe return following an appeal for public…
Director of Public Prosecutions Claudette Thompson.
March 30, 2026

DPP urges JPs to 'serve with clean hands'

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Claudette Thompson, has called on Justices of the Peace (JPs) who continue to charge for their services to desist, as this is against the law. “You must,…
March 30, 2026

Police charge 72-year-old in alleged US visa scam in Manchester

A 72-year-old farmer has been charged with obtaining money by means of false pretence following an alleged visa scam in Manchester. Charged is Paul Suckie, otherwise called ‘Shacka,’ of Egret Drive,…
A portrait of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, is seen, as smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon on March 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
March 30, 2026

Trump threatens to destroy Iran's civilian infrastructure if deal not reached 'shortly'

(AP) — United States President Donald Trump on Monday threatened widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other vital infrastructure, including desalination plants, if a deal to end the…
Senator Kamina Johnson Smith (left), Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, meets with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, on the margins of the 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) in Yaoundé, Cameroon, whic
March 30, 2026

Johnson Smith pushed food security, trade reform at WTO talks

Jamaica signalled the urgency of addressing food security concerns for Net Food-Importing Developing Countries at a World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Cameroon, the foreign ministry said. The…