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Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr (second left) shakes hands with farm worker Zeneice Nixon at a send-off ceremony for 95 workers who departed the island for Toronto, Canada, last April under the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers
December 26, 2025

Charles Jr, Coore-Lobban firm on safety for farm workers

The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme (SAWP) between Canada and Jamaica is being hailed as one of the most successful and longest-running labour mobility programmes in the world. Known more…
Murray and Ashley McKenzie, school groundsman and janitor, watch closely as Don Jorgensen, rapid response team leader for Global Medic, works on the UV water filter.
December 26, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

Blauwearie gets drinkable water from Global Medic

Western Bureau: For years, students at Blauwearie Primary and Infant School relied on water from a nearby stream, rain catchment and bottled supplies, never fully certain if the water they had access…
Keliesha Fearon, a resident of St Elizabeth and a JWN Foundation volunteer, prepares paint to help with the rebuilding efforts.
December 26, 2025

‘I won’t have to worry anymore’

For 33-year-old Nichola Smith, the approach of Hurricane Melissa brought days of fear and uncertainty. Living in Balaclava, St Elizabeth, Smith, who shares her home with five members of her household,…
Digicel Foundation CEO Charmaine Daniels (right) hands over $300,000 worth of hardware vouchers to Sadie Brisstell, administrative assistant at West Haven Children’s Home, during a visit to the facility in Hanover.
December 26, 2025

Digicel Foundation brings holiday cheer with hardware vouchers

The Digicel Foundation is distributing of $30 million in Hardware and Lumber Limited vouchers to support home repairs and rebuilding efforts, with a strong focus on western Jamaica, where communities…
People relax along Hellshire Beach in St Catherine.
December 26, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

No ‘box dung’ on Boxing Day

A few days ago, I overheard a conversation between a young mother and her daughter, who looked about six years old. The child wanted to know why Boxing Day is so called, and when it is. The mother…
Professor Donovan Campbell
December 26, 2025

UWI scientists play key role in UN flagship environmental report

Scientists from the University of the West Indies (UWI) have once again placed the Caribbean at the centre of global environmental discourse, playing a key role in the research, analysis, and…
Alex Johnson, head of the Faith Chapel of Faith Apostolic Ministries Health and Welness Department, attends to a patient on December 13 at the Mother Lewis AME Church in Shrewsbury, Westmoreland.
December 26, 2025 by Antoine Lodge

Faith steps in where Melissa left scars

More than 100 residents of the Shrewsbury and Logwood districts in Petersfield, Westmoreland received much-needed health and social services on December 13, as Faith Apostolic Ministries continued its…
Steve Beaver, co-owner of Geejam Hotel.
December 26, 2025 by Neil Armstrong

Hoteliers rallying around communities affected by Melissa

Across Jamaica, in tourist destinations minimally affected by Hurricane Melissa – from Montego Bay, St James to Ocho Rios, St Ann; Port Antonio in Portland and Kingston – hoteliers are helping their…
Robert Almeida, CEO of NCB Financial Group Limited (centre), shares a moment with Maurice Dawson (left), customer care agent, and Cordell Brown, business banker at NCB Fairview Financial Centre, before surprising them with a Grant a Wish donation to help c
December 26, 2025

NCB CEO grants wishes of two fathers with children battling cancer

“Without my community, I don’t know how I would survive,” shared Cordell Brown, a business banker at NCB’s Baywest branch in St James. “This donation is coming from home. NCB has been my backbone…