News
December 9, 2025
by Sashana Small
Old Harbour principal looking forward to removal from shift system
After the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information’s unkept promise to remove Old Harbour High School from the shift system by 2016, Principal Lynton Weir remains hopeful that the…
December 9, 2025
by Mickalia Kington
Westmoreland men overcome stigma of digital rectal exam
Western Bureau: Scores of men over 40 gathered on Thursday in the Savanna-la-Mar Independence Park for a free health screening hosted by the Misty Blue Cancer Care Foundation in partnership with the…
December 9, 2025
by Lester Hinds
Holness urges reform of multilateral systems to better assist smaller nations
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is calling for the urgent reform of the world’s multilateral systems so that small countries, including his own island nation, can benefit from specific…
December 9, 2025
by Albert Ferguson
Errol Green bats for Jamaica to have its own final court
WESTERN BUREAU: Errol Greene, trustee of the Lay Magistrates Association of Jamaica (LMAJ), is supportive of the view that Jamaica should establish its own final court of appeal, arguing that the…
December 9, 2025
Central Avenue to be closed for road work this weekend
The National Works Agency (NWA) has advised that Central Avenue in St Andrew will be closed for 10 hours on Saturday and Sunday. It says the road is to be closed between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., each day…
December 9, 2025
Dominican PM calls for structural change at CXC
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, has called for a “structural change” at the Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) as part of the reform of the…
December 9, 2025
Fisherman drowns in Treasure Beach
The Pedro Plains police in St Elizabeth have launched an investigation into the death of a fisherman who drowned in the parish on Thursday. He has been identified as 29-year-old Damian Davis of…
December 9, 2025
Golding set to remain as PNP president
People’s National Party (PNP) president Mark Golding is not expected to face any immediate challenge to his leadership following the close of nominations for the posts of president and vice president…
December 9, 2025
Men arrested in St Elizabeth for stealing avocados
Police attached to the Area 3 Agricultural Protection Branch (APB) have arrested two men for praedial larceny following the theft of avocados in Newton district in St Elizabeth on Thursday. The Area…