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People’s National Party President Mark Golding makes his way through a sea of Comrades on his way to the stage at the party’s 88th Annual Conference in Westmoreland on Sunday.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Golding: More tourism dollars must stay in Ja

WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Leader Mark Golding says western Jamaica must get a bigger share of the wealth generated by tourism, with more of the industry’s benefits remaining in local communities. But…
The Jamaica Labour Party has condemned the conduct of People’s National Party members during Tuesday’s heated parliamentary sitting, calling for sanctions against Opposition MPs Mikael Phillips and Angela Brown Burke over what it described as unparliam
21 Sep, 2026 0

Legislative agenda under pressure as Parliament resumes

With half of the parliamentary year already completed, the Government’s legislative agenda may have to go into overdrive if many key proposed laws announced in the Throne Speech earlier this year are…
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett (right) converses with Chairman of the Tourism Enhancement Fund, Ryan Parkes during the Tourism Workers Pension Fund 2026 Annual General Meeting at the Montego Bay Convention Centre last Friday.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Bartlett: Pension enrolment could become condition for tourism licensing

WESTERN BUREAU: The hospitality sector could eventually be required to enrol workers in the Tourism Workers Pension Scheme (TWPS) as a condition of licensing under an expansion being proposed by…
Kevin Coke, electrical technology teacher and founder of the Montego Bay-based GENR8 3D Limited.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Teacher opens STEM lab to support damaged western schools

WESTERN BUREAU: With some schools still repairing hurricane-damaged laboratories, electrical technology teacher Kevin Coke has made his STEM laboratory available to students in western Jamaica to…
From left: St James Ministers Fraternal members Reverends Howard Nelson, treasurer; Godfrey Francis, secretary; Glendon Powell, chairman; and Rehamah Forrester, vice-chairman, at a press conference at Burchell Baptist Church in Montego Bay on Wednesday.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Church leaders welcome plans for burn unit at CRH

WESTERN BUREAU: Reverend Glendon Powell, head of the St James Ministers Fraternal, is hailing the development of a burn unit at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay as a major step…
Recipients of WINDALCO’s 2021 International Scholarship who returned to Jamaica in August after completing engineering degrees at the Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk Russia.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Eighteen Jamaican students return from Russia with engineering degrees

Eighteen Jamaican students are now back in Jamaica after completing engineering degrees at the Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The students were awarded fully funded scholarships…
Members of the JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation team (seated) with scholarship recipients at the recently held scholarship awards ceremony at Terra Nova All Suites Hotel.
21 Sep, 2026 0

JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation awards $17.5 million in scholarships and bursaries

The JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation presented scholarships and bursaries at the foundation’s annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony, held recently at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel. This year’s scholarship…
21 Sep, 2026 0

Brain activity can predict risky decisions before they happen: Study

SAN FRANCISCO (ANI): Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and the University of California, Berkeley, have identified two neighbouring regions in the human brain that…
Taxi driver Peter Dawson stands helplessly by his vehicle at a flooded section of Orange Street in Montego Bay, St James, in November 2021. He was eventually assisted by firefighters.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Flood-hit MoBay gets $56m for early-warning tech

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay has secured US$350,000 (J$56 million) in international funding to install flood-detection and early-warning technology, a timely intervention for the western city where…