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Left to right- front row: Jeanette Calder, executive director, JAMP; Africka Stephens, founder of Fi We Children Foundation; Oshane Creary, director, The Lesma Ellis Foundation; and Icka Bailey, research and programme Officer, JAMP and other representative
December 19, 2025

Citizen oversight boost

The Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal (JAMP) has awarded €37,908 ($7 million) in European Union-funded grants to two civil-society organisations to strengthen citizen engagement in public financial…
Jason Henzell
December 19, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

Creative industry stunned by artist’s murder

The creative community in Jamaica has been shaken by the violent murder of Kenya-born Jamaican fusion sculptor Mazola wa Mwashighadi, a death wholly at odds with the man they knew. He had made Jamaica…
Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith (left) shakes hands with Kim Jin‑wook, Chargé d’Affaires at the Korean Embassy in Kingston.
December 19, 2025

Republic of Korea provides $48 million humanitarian donation

The Government of the Republic of Korea has provided US$300,000 (J$48 million) in humanitarian assistance to Jamaica as the island rebuilds after the catastrophic passage of Hurricane Melissa. In…
Police investigators are currently at the crime scene with the suspect, searching for items of evidential value. 
December 19, 2025

Man held after mother, brother and cousin chopped to death in Clarendon

A man has been taken into police custody after allegedly chopping his mother, brother and cousin to death in Rocky Point, Clarendon, on Thursday night. The incident occurred in a section of the…
December 19, 2025

St Andrew developer cleared of fraud charges in US$400,000 property case

St Andrew real estate developer Devon Evans has been found not guilty of fraudulent conversion and obtaining money by false pretences in a property transaction involving medical doctor Lloyd Goldson. …
Senator Delano Seiveright, state minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce.
December 19, 2025

Jamaica sees ‘major signal’ in US move to reclassify marijuana, says Seiveright”

Jamaica is monitoring the United States government’s decision to fast-track the reclassification of marijuana, a move described by Senator Delano Seiveright as a “major signal in the direction of…
December 19, 2025

Fisherman found dead in St Ann

The St Ann police are investigating the death of a fisherman who was found on a reef line in the parish on Thursday. The deceased has been identified as 31-year-old Darran Grant of Roaring River…
Prime Minister, Dr Andrew Holness (left), is shown lumber donated by Kemtek Development and Construction Limited in support of post-Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts, by Chairman and Managing Director, Sylvester Tulloch, during the handover of relief supp
December 19, 2025

Holness urges greater private sector role in Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts

Prime Minister, Dr Andrew Holness, is encouraging greater private-sector participation in the national recovery effort following Hurricane Melissa. He made the call while speaking during Thursday’s…
Water Square in Falmouth, Trelawny.
December 19, 2025

Falmouth’s Water Square to welcome vendors for holiday Grand Market

The ban on vending in Water Square in Falmouth, Trelawny will be temporarily lifted between December 24 and 28, 2025, Councillor Garth Wilkinson of the Falmouth Division has announced. “The…