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Members of Edwin Allen High’s female track team dance up a storm as they celebrate their victory in the ISSA/GraceKennedy Girls’ Athletics Championships in Frankfield, Clarendon, on Monday.
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Edwin Allen celebrates resilient Champs team

Edwin Allen High School turned Frankfield blue yesterday, celebrating their 11th ISSA/raceKennedy Girls’ Athletics Championships title with a high-energy campus rally and street parade. Students and…
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UHWI in hot seat at PAC

The University Hospital of the West Indies’ (UHWI) so-called procurement scandal takes centre stage today as Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is expected to drill down to unveil additional…
Nursing students Ashanti Mootie (right) check Tajay Fuller’s blood pressure during the College of Health Sciences’ annual health fair, held yesterday at UTech’s campus in St Andrew.
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Long lines for HIV testing mark UTech Health Fair

Long lines formed early for HIV testing at this year’s Health Promotion Fair hosted by the College of Health Sciences at the University of Technology, Jamaica – signalling both concern and curiosity…
From left: Omar Sweeney, managing director of Jamaica Social Investment Fund; Floyd Green, minister of agriculture, fisheries and mining; Matthew Samuda, minister of water, environment and climate change; and Wayne Robertson, permanent secretary in the Min
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Gov’t launches US$50m project for climate-resilient farming

A multibillion-dollar project designed by the Government to harden the country’s agriculture sector against climate shocks is expected to boost nearly 15,000 farmers in the first year, officials have…
A mourner at yesterday’s funeral for Kiero Pinnock at the Regent Street Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kingston.
30 Mar, 2026 0

‘Day of reckoning’

Declaring that no act of violence will go unanswered, Pastor Adolphus Smith yesterday warned that there will be “a day of reckoning” as he addressed mourners at the funeral of slain Denham Town…
Big sister Arielle kisses ‘Boy’, her nickname for little sister Anna-Olivia.
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A prayer for Anna

A Trelawny mother who gave birth six months ago to a baby with Trisomy 13, or Patau syndrome, has come forward to share aspects of the family’s journey with the child, who is currently hospitalised.…
Vincent Morrison, president of UCASE.
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Dental surgeons grit teeth over classification delay

The Union of Clerical Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE) is blaming systemic “inertia” for the protracted delay in correcting an anomaly affecting registered dental surgeons. The union,…
Donna Parchment-Brown hands over an inflatable mattress to Newell High School head boy Gary Blake on Friday. Also in the picture (from left) are Dr Adeniyini Bamedele, foundation board member; head girl Kimberley Thompson, and Principal Audrey Ellington.
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New appeal for Jamaicans to help hurricane-impacted students return to school

St Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation Chairman Donna Parchment Brown has issued a call for Jamaicans, individuals and organisations to come forward and assist students who have not returned to school…
Vana Taylor (second left), chairman of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association Ocho Rios Runaway Bay Chapter, hands over a cheque for $150,000 to Gwendolyn Howell, administrator at Widow’s Mite, as an annual charitable donation, while Cherile Thompson
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JHTA chapter aids St Ann’s Widow’s Mite

The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) Ocho Rios Runaway Bay Chapter continued its decades-long support of the Mustard Seeds Widow’s Mite facility in St Ann with a donation of $150,000 on…