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June 6, 2026

Three HEART courses go online in CARICOM initiative
The HEART/NSTA Trust has digitised three level two courses under a CARICOM-led pilot to standardise technical and vocational education and training (TVET) across member states. Jamaica, alongside…
June 6, 2026

PCOA initiative brings career dreams, policing lessons to  students
Future nurses, pilots, doctors, soldiers — and even a bank teller — filled the corridors and classrooms of St Paul’s United Infant School on Career Day last Thursday. Dressed for the roles they hope…
June 6, 2026 by Gareth Davis Sr

Career day sparks interest in skills, performing arts at Buff Bay High
A career day at Portland-based Buff Bay High School on Wednesday drew strong student interest, with organisers deeming the event a success as pupils engaged enthusiastically with a range of vocational…
June 7, 2026

Care on ICE - Detainees across the US describe medical neglect
An Albanian man’s pain grew so unbearable, he said, that he pulled out his own tooth as he languished for months in a New Mexico immigration detention centre. A Honduran mother of two said she was…
June 7, 2026

Sean Major Campbell | Magnifica Humanitas and Hope for Humanity
 “Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. Each…
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June 7, 2026

Dwight Fletcher | What’s keeping you from expecting better?
Your expectations about your work matter. If you want to thrive, you must let go of the negative expectations that shape your reality. To do that, however, you must first identify the source of those…
June 7, 2026

Gabriel Agbo | Samson’s hair is growing again!
“So the Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They took him to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze chains and made to grind grain in the prison. But before long his hair began to grow…
June 6, 2026

Energy Minister calls Jamaica electricity blackout ‘unacceptable’; orders probe
Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says he expects to update the country on Saturday following what he described as an “unacceptable” all-island power outage that left Jamaica in darkness for nearly two hours…
June 6, 2026

JPS restores power to over 550,000 customers after islandwide outage, Vaz calls emergency meeting
The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is reporting that, as at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday, more than 80 per cent, approximately 550,000 of the company’s 690,000 customers, have had power restored following last…