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Dr Lucien Jones, vice-chairman of the National Road Safety Council.
27 Dec, 2025 0

NRSC wary of road fatality U-turn

With road fatalities poised to break a three-year downward trend, Dr Lucien Jones, vice chairman of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC), is urging the introduction of protocols to test the blood…
The rodent control programme will start from the clock tower on Barnett Street.
27 Dec, 2025 0

St James Health Department to launch $60m rodent, mosquito control programme

WESTERN BUREAU: Amid the ongoing restoration work in St James in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, the St James Health Department says it will be conducting an unprecedented $60-million rodent and…
Moses West, former US Army ranger and founder of AWG Contracting, who designed the atmospheric water system currently supplying drinking water to the Accompong Maroon community.
27 Dec, 2025 0

Standing firm amid fury

Western Bureau: As Hurricane Melissa tore across Jamaica on October 28, crippling power grids and shutting down water supply systems mainly in the western region, one machine high in the Cockpit…
Hugh Grant, president and CEO of JPS.
27 Dec, 2025 0

JPS lights up Treasure Beach

WESTERN BUREAU: A large Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Emergency Mobile Power Generation Unit now supplying electricity to Treasure Beach and surrounding communities was officially launched on…
Jason Henzell
27 Dec, 2025 0

Hotelier praises JPS as Treasure Beach regains electricity

WESTERN BUREAU Treasure Beach hotelier Jason Henzell has welcomed the deployment of the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) Emergency Mobile Power Generation Unit, describing the response as…
A JN Foundation volunteer shows off some of the items inside the thrift shop established on the football field of the William Knibb Memorial High School last Sunday. The shop was one of the highlights of an event organised and hosted by FYI Consultancy Gro
27 Dec, 2025 0

Santa, stoves and second chances in Trelawny

It was not yet Christmas Eve, but it seemed like Grand Market came just a few days early for residents of Trelawny. From Martha Brae, Hague Settlement, Falmouth, and as far as Sherwood Content, they…
VM Group Chairman Michael McMorris (centre) cuts the ribbon to officially hand over a new two-bedroom home to Novia Russell (right) and her children (second to fourth right) Javon, Danique and Zaliyah. Also present are (from left) Kivette Silvera, executiv
27 Dec, 2025 0

VM, Food For The Poor deliver new home to St Bess family

A family in Myersville, St Elizabeth, has received a new two-bedroom home for the holidays, after Hurricane Melissa, through a partnership between VM Group and Food For The Poor. The home was…
Members of the CB Group’s ‘Do Good Crew’ donate essential supplies to the Hanover Infirmary.
27 Dec, 2025 0

CB Foods brings holiday cheer to Hanover Infirmary

The Hanover Infirmary, home to some of society’s most vulnerable, received a dose of compassion and celebration this holiday season. The initiative was led by Copperwood Pork’s production team and CB…
Kira McKenzie, Miss Jamaica UK 2025
27 Dec, 2025 0

Leicester beauty Kira McKenzie is Miss Jamaica UK 2025

LONDON: Thirty-one-year-old singer Kira McKenzie, representing the parish of St Elizabeth, was crowned Miss Jamaica UK 2025 before an appreciative audience inside the Cavendish Banqueting Suite,…