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Motorists travelling to Kingston via Annotto Bay are being urged to use an alternative route through Richmond, into Rock River, then Scott’s Hall, exiting at Grandy Hole.
December 23, 2025

Broken-down truck blocks Junction main road in St Mary

The St Mary police are advising that the Junction main road is blocked between Friendship Gap and Devon Pen due to a truck that has broken down. As a result, motorists travelling to Kingston via…
Parris Lyew-Ayee (second left), chairman, JN Foundation exchanges pleasantries with Dr. Tiou Clarke (left), lecturer at the University of Technology, Jamaica; Dr Ricardo Anderson (centre), lecturer in the Department of Computing, The University of the West
December 23, 2025

Growth & Jobs | Embrace AI in Early Childhood Education with caution – tech experts

Educators with knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) are urging their colleagues at the early childhood level to move past scepticism and embrace the technology as part of modern teaching methods.…
Coffee beans that got damaged during the passage of Hurricane Melissa in Spring Hill, Portland.
December 22, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Battered beans

Making a case for more meaningful support from the Government toward one of the country’s long-standing industries, Donald Salmon, president of the Jamaica Coffee Growers Association, says coffee…
Donald Berry, coffee farmer in Spring Hill, Portland, checks for disease on coffee beans on his farm.
December 22, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

‘Coffee and Jamaica are close to my heart’

For nearly three decades, Donald Berry has put his energy and passion into producing Blue Mountain Coffee, and has had setbacks in the past. However, with the passage of Hurricane Melissa, he thought…
Dr Maria Myers-Hamilton, managing director of the Spectrum Management Authority.
December 22, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Supreme Court puts pause on SMA probe

The Supreme Court has granted the Spectrum Management Authority (SMA) and its managing director, Dr Maria Myers-Hamilton, permission to seek judicial review of two notices linked to an ongoing…
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, addresses the media at the July 2025 Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in Montego Bay. He has collaborated with Gramps Morgan on the song ‘Reparations’, using his stage na
December 22, 2025

Antigua PM tackles T&T counterpart over claim CARICOM has ‘lost its way’

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): The Antigua and Barbuda government yesterday disputed recent comments by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar that the 15-member regional integration…
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett (right) pauses for a photo opportunity ahead of the Harmonies of Hope relief concert with Dr Wes Hall, chancellor of the University of Toronto, and Dr Donette Chin-Loy Chang, chancellor of the Toronto Metropolitan Unive
December 22, 2025 by Sophia Findlay

JTB Canada’s ‘Harmonies of Hope’ concert raises CDN$3m for Melissa relief

In a display of global solidarity and national pride, the Jamaican diaspora in Canada has delivered one of the largest single contributions to the island’s Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts, raising…
Students of Chester Castle Basic and Primary School pose for a photo.
December 22, 2025

Chester Castle Basic and Primary School gets a fresh beginning

Thanks to a grant from the German Embassy, Chester Castle Basic and Primary School in Hanover has begun to breathe again after the devastation of Hurricane Melissa. The school lost its entire roof,…
Dr Rebecca Tortello (second right), education specialist at the United Nations Children’s Fund, leads a conversation on the National Early Screening Pathway document with (from left) Dr Emre Ozaltin, lead economist for the Caribbean at the World Bank; P
December 22, 2025

Financing, data, and equity issues challenge early childhood education in Latin America, the Caribbean

Strengthening early childhood education in Latin America and the Caribbean will require better financing, stronger data systems, and more inclusive services, experts addressing a recent panel…