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Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness addresses the audience during the official launch of the Jamaica Reconstruction and Resilience Oversight Committee on Tuesday.
10 Sep, 2026 0

No romance in ruin - Children’s advocacy group blasts Holness over comments about students at damaged schools ‘learning closer to nature’

Children’s advocacy group Fi Wi Children Foundation (FWCF) has chided Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness for suggesting that Jamaican students forced to learn under trees following Hurricane Melissa are…
Tova-Malka Trench Anderson, the Social Development Commission’s parish manager for Hanover.
10 Sep, 2026 0

Hanover’s Cacoon establishes community office to open new doors

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Cacoon in Hanover have established a Community Development Committee (CDC) office to open new doors of opportunities for them in the rural district. The office, which is…
From left: Richard Vernon, mayor of Montego Bay, presents a cheque to Wayne White, a final-year law student, covering $100,000 in scholarship assistance from the Mayor’s Charity Fund. Sharing the occasion are Gregory Harris, councillor for the Salt Sprin
10 Sep, 2026 0

MoBay Mayor’s Charity Fund comes good for Salt Spring law student

WESTERN BUREAU: Law student Wayne White of Salt Spring, St James, who had asked Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon for $20,000 to help him clear an outstanding law school bill, got more than he…
Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon (right), minister of education, skills, youth and information; and Dr Kasan Troupe, permanent secretary in the ministry.
10 Sep, 2026 0

PLEA FOR PATIENCE

Repairs to more than half of the schools severely damaged by Hurricane Melissa should be completed by the end of the year, Dr Kasan Troupe, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Skills,…
The Jacob Taylor Beach in Trelawny.
09 Sep, 2026 0

STAY ON BEACH EVICTION

The Supreme Court has imposed an injunction that temporarily blocks the country’s environment regulatory authority from evicting at least 40 people from the Jacob Taylor Beach lands in Duncans,…
Alister McLean Disability Inclusion Advocate.
09 Sep, 2026 0

Disabilities Act yet to break down barriers... but few successes recorded at tribunal

Four years after Jamaica implemented the Disabilities Act, structural and communication barriers continue to hamper members of the disabled community, according to inclusion advocate Alister McLean.…
The main building at St Hilda’s Diocesan High School, showing some damage caused by Hurricane Melissa in October 2025.
09 Sep, 2026 0

St Hilda’s delays boarders’ return

Nearly a year after Hurricane Melissa battered St Hilda’s Diocesan High School in Brown’s Town, St Ann, leaving an estimated $40 million in damage, the institution has been forced to delay the full…
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09 Sep, 2026 0

Police kill suspect linked to string of murders

A suspected gangster and contract killer, who the police have linked to a string of murders and other violent crimes across several parishes, was killed during an alleged confrontation with cops on…
Ministry of National Security and Peace State Minister Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn addressing the 14th annual conference of the Association of Caribbean Heads of Corrections and Prison Services at AC Hotel in St Andrew on Monday.
09 Sep, 2026 0

Gov’t plans $8b max-security prison

Planning is under way for the construction of a new maximum-security correctional facility, with the government having identified a site and established a committee to advance the project. The…