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December 9, 2025
Water Resources Authority installs flood gauge in Content, Manchester amid rising groundwater, undertaking routine monitoring
The Water Resources Authority (WRA) has installed a flood gauge in Content in Williamsfield, Manchester amid a significant rise in groundwater levels in the local aquifer system and is undertaking…
December 9, 2025
Tender launched for second phase of Rural School Bus System
The Ministry of Energy, Transport and Telecommunications has officially launched Phase 2 of the Rural School Bus System with a tender for 150 school buses—while blasting private operators in the…
December 9, 2025
Update | Clarendon woman relieved after locating family in hurricane-ravaged St Elizabeth
A Clarendon woman who, yesterday, made a desperate plea for help in locating her daughter-in-law and one-year-old grandson in St Elizabeth is now breathing a sigh of relief. Nadine Stewart-Whyte…
December 9, 2025
JCSA concerned about PM's 'deeply unfortunate and disheartening' comments
The Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) has described as "deeply unfortunate and disheartening" to public officers comments by Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness regarding the “inability…
December 9, 2025
JMDA says CRH in 'devastated state' following Hurricane Melissa
The Jamaica Medical Doctors' Association (JMDA) has written to Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton requesting an urgent meeting with his ministry amid what it said are statements by officials…
December 9, 2025
Woman killed in St Thomas hit and run
The Bath police in St Thomas are searching for the driver of a motor car who failed to stop after their vehicle killed a 68-year-old woman on Thursday. The victim has been identified as Paulette…
December 9, 2025
St John Ambulance, JN deliver first aid in St Elizabeth, Westmoreland
As communities begin to recover from Hurricane Melissa’s recent landfall, more than 250 volunteers mobilised by St John Ambulance Jamaica and the JN Foundation delivered first-aid to nearly 800…
December 9, 2025
by George Ruddock
UK Jamaicans mobilise to assist country in aftermath of Hurricane Melissa
LONDON: The UK Jamaican diaspora community has mobilised in great numbers to assist Jamaicans at home whose lives have been upended by the devastation brought on by the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025
by Keisha Hill
Coping forum launched to offer therapy solutions post-Melissa
In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, grief, shock, anxiety and uncertainty have settled across the communities most severely affected, as well as the wider Jamaican society still reeling from the storm’s…