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UK Minister for the Caribbean, Chris Elmore (left) surveys the devastation in Black River, with head of the St Elizabeth Police Division, Superintendent Coleridge Minto.
December 9, 2025

UK minister pledges long-term support to Jamaica

UK Minister for the Caribbean Chris Elmore ended a visit to Jamaica on Wednesday, pledging Britain’s support for the island’s long-term recovery, reconstruction and climate resilience after Hurricane…
Dr Halimah DeShong, university director, Institute for Gender and Development Studies at The University of the West Indies.
December 9, 2025

UWI director warns of post‑hurricane gender harms

The University of the West Indies (UWI) has joined global communities in observing the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence campaign, highlighting the urgent need to confront digital…
Mayor of Montego Bay Richard Vernon.
December 9, 2025 by Christopher Thomas

‘Bear with us’

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon, chairman of the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC), is urging residents to remain patient as the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) works to…
Photo by St John’s Anglican Church in Black River, St Elizabeth, after it was destroyed by Hurricane Melissa on October 28.
December 9, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

St John’s Church history

“175 years seems like a good long time for this church building to have been in existence. But when you consider that worship has been taking place in this place for 300 years (give or take a few…
December 9, 2025

Gabriel Agbo | God cannot lie

“Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear that they would take his bones with them when God led them out of Egypt - AS HE WAS SURE GOD WOULD.” Exodus…
Financial Secretary Darlene Morrison.
December 9, 2025

$10b mystery

(EDITOR'S NOTE: After the discussion on the M5 Business Recovery Programme ended and the committee moved on to take questions on other unrelated matters, Permament Secretary in the Ministry of…
Chybar
December 9, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

Westmoreland wipeout

WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland is on the brink of an economic collapse, with the parish’s smallest businesses – the micro enterprises that employ hundreds and fuel daily commercial life – “pretty much…
Pastor Everett Brown (left), president of the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (JAMU), gives an address to the media as Wenford Henry (centre), country director for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency Jamaica, and Adlai Blythe, tr
December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

Rebuked

The Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (JAMU) has moved to dismiss claims being circulated on social media that it has received funding from the Government or acted on its behalf to…
Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie and a team are joins by residents during a visit to the Petersfield High School shelter in Westmoreland on Tuesday.
December 9, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

Shelter residents given until end of year to vacate Petersfield High ahead of new school term

Residents taking refuge at Petersfield High School were told yesterday that they must prepare to relocate by the end of December, as the institution begins its clean-up ahead of the January school…