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Stephen Edwards (centre), managing director of the National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC), provides an onsite update on the Montego Bay Perimeter Road project to Robert Morgan (left), minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic
December 9, 2025

Land acquisition challenges being overcome as Long Hill Bypass takes shape

WESTERN BUREAU: Robert Morgan, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Infrastructure Development, says the longstanding land acquisition challenges that once impeded…
Dominica Pradere, past president of the Rotary Club of Montego Bay.
December 9, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

Rotary declares fight to end polio far from over

WESTERN BUREAU: Dominica Pradere, past president of the Rotary Club of Montego Bay, says the global campaign to eradicate poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio, is far from complete, and is calling…
Rabbi Yaakov Raskin
December 9, 2025

Yaakov Raskin | From darkness to light – finding hope in troubled times

THIS PAST week, the Jewish community celebrated Simchat Torah, a holiday which concludes and immediately restarts the reading of the Five Books of Moses. Literally meaning ‘Rejoicing in the Torah’,…
December 9, 2025

Sean Major-Campbell | Healing in the balmyard

MY RECENT obeah piece certainly triggered many comments, questions, and some condemnation both for obeah and for me. I decided to ask AI Overview about obeah!
The East Queen St Baptist Church is said to have grown out of the first church in Jamaica to be built and led by a black man, the African American George Liele.
December 9, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

Black Americans established the Baptist Church in Jamaica

DURING THE American War of Independence, enslaved black people were promised their freedom if they fought for the British against the separatists. When the British lost the war, these enslaved people…
Former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson speaks at the P. J. Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Advocacy Scholarship, sponsored by the National Commercial Bank, in honour of his 90th birth anniversary, at the institute located at The University of the W
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

‘Dangerous and horrible’

Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson is describing the United States (US) drone attacks on vessels in Caribbean waters as “fundamentally dangerous and a horrible erosion of regional leaders’…
The Statistical Institute of Jamaica in St Andrew.
December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

Late delivery

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) has revealed the population grew by 2.8 per cent from 2011 to 2022, as it yesterday released the long-anticipated census, bringing an end to a gruelling…
Constable Monique Ann Bartley.
December 9, 2025 by Bryan Miller

‘Living a cop’s dream’

Western Bureau: Constable Monique Ann Bartley, of the Hanover Police Division, will be the Area One representative in the 2025 LASCO/Jamaica Constable Force’s (JCF) Saluting Our Heroes Awards,…
Robert Morgan (left), minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic, Growth and Job Creation with responsibility for works, examines documents related to the Montego Bay Perimeter Road, now under construction, during a tour of the construction sit
December 9, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

Gov’t contemplating phased opening of MoBay Bypass ahead of 2026 completion date

WESTERN BUREAU: While the projected completion date for the new Montego Bay Bypass Road is May 2026, it is likely that motorists will start using sections of the multimillion-dollar project ahead of…