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07 Apr, 2026 0

Two decades later, disbarred attorney’s complaint against panel member fails

A former attorney has lost his bid to pursue a conflict-of-interest complaint against a member of the disciplinary panel that ruled over 20 years ago that he should be struck off the list of lawyers…
PAC Chairman Julian Robinson.
07 Apr, 2026 0

PAC slams ‘madness’ as UHWI pays big for delayed, rejected reports

The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) paid Strategic Alignment Limited US$92,000 (J$14.5 million) to create a strategic transformation plan, but rejected the draft without explaining why…
From left: Half Moon Eclipse Luxury Resort’s Tashane Castillo, wedding sales manager; Sharon Logan, director of sales; Shernette Crichton, newly appointed managing director, Half Moon Resort; and Latoya Murray, account manager, group wedding sales, celeb
07 Apr, 2026 0

From trainee to trailblazer

WESTERN BUREAU: For 32 years, Shernette Crichton walked the corridors of Half Moon not as a spectator of its legacy, but as a student of it; quietly studying, steadily rising, and preparing for a…
Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis.
07 Apr, 2026 0

Auditor general flags contract splintering at UHWI

Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has warned that some procurement heads are improperly splitting government contracts to avoid rules designed to prevent that practice. In a January performance…
Delano Seiveright.
07 Apr, 2026 0

Students urged to embrace financial readiness for a changing Jamaica

WESTERN BUREAU: Delano Seiveright, state minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, has called on Jamaican students to embrace financial readiness as a fundamental life skill,…
Dr Marcia Johnson-Campbell, regional coordinator for priority non-communicable diseases at the Western Regional Health Authority.
06 Apr, 2026 0

Jamaica’s bittersweet reckoning

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica is facing a bitter truth about its sweetest habit. From vending machines on university campuses to roadside coolers and taxi stands, sugary drinks have become the nation’s…
Edmund Bartlett
06 Apr, 2026 0

Bartlett seeking to secure job security for medical students from his constituency

WESTERN BUREAU: Following a situation last year, which saw several doctors who were trained in China finding it difficult to get accepted into local hospitals to do their internships, a push is now on…
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett (centre), the member of parliament for St James East Central, in a group shot with several primary school students from the constituency who received computer tablets during a handover service at the Montego Bay Convention
06 Apr, 2026 0

St James East Central students gifted tablets

WESTERN BUREAU: Fourteen primary school students from St James East Central are now more empowered to further their education after being gifted with computer tablets by their member of parliament,…
Ariel Bowen (centre), the officer in charge of the Jamaican Consulate in New York, joined colleague ambassadors, high commissioners, and consuls-general in Kingston for a heads of mission meeting convened by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trad
06 Apr, 2026 0

Ariel Bowen leads New York consulate’s efforts to help Jamaica recover from Melissa

Ariel Bowen, the officer in charge of the Jamaican Consulate in New York, has emphasised that even as media attention surrounding the impact of Hurricane Melissa fades, the push towards full recovery…