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Dr Donovan Stanberry, Mona Campus registrar.
19 Feb, 2026 0

UWI doors open to med students in Cuba

The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, says there has been no official communication or request to accept anxious Jamaican medical students in Cuba, but it has indicated that it can…
Pastor Glen Samuels.
19 Feb, 2026 0

Samuels is new president of Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica

Pastor Glen Samuels was on Tuesday elected president of the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists during its Third Quinquennial Session, held at the Mandeville Seventh-day Adventist…
Hurricane damage at Jamaica Zoo.
19 Feb, 2026 0

Comeback trail

With Jamaica’s tourism products experiencing appreciable rebound following the displacements brought about by Hurricane Melissa last October, privately owned attractions are also fighting to get back…
The 700-square-foot steel-frame model house in Savanna-la-Mar that stood standing after Hurricane Melissa.
19 Feb, 2026 0

Framing the future

A steel frame house left standing in Savanna-la-Mar after Hurricane Melissa tore through sections of western Jamaica has started a conversation about how the country should rebuild and whether it is…
Paul Thorbourne (left) and Cynthia Burton (right), former trustees of the Mavis Fraser-Davis Trust, present a cheque for $1.3 million to Hermina Reid of the Bethlehem Moravian Church in Malvern, St Elizabeth, on February 1.
19 Feb, 2026 0

Malvern churches get $2.6m donation from late educator’s trust

WESTERN BUREAU: St Elizabeth-based churches, the St Albans Anglican Church and the Bethlehem Moravian Church, are the joint beneficiaries of a J$2.6-million donation from the now-defunct Mavis…
A policeman approaches the house on Marlin Way in Braeton, Portmore in St Catherine yesterday, where a woman and her daughter were reportedly attacked by a man believed to be of unsound mind. The daughter was rushed to the hospital while the mother died in
18 Feb, 2026 0

FEAR TURNS FATAL

Shock, grief, and simmering anger have engulfed residents of Marlin Way in Braeton, Portmore, after a 63-year-old mother was brutally chopped to death inside her home. It was an attack neighbours say…
Sophie Grizzle-Roumel, hotelier at Charela Inn in Negril, Westmoreland.
18 Feb, 2026 0

‘Death knell for small hotels’

WESTERN BUREAU: As Jamaica’s tourism sector continues its post-Hurricane Melissa recovery, small hotel operators are warning that new tax measures slated for implementation in April 2027 could…
Kadeem Henry.
18 Feb, 2026 0

Hustle to hope

When Kadeem Henry reflects on his journey, the first word he uses is not ‘success’ or ‘achievement’, it is ‘survival’. A trained graduate with a Bachelor of Education in Special Education from The…
18 Feb, 2026 0

Detective draws line between ‘suspect’ and ‘possible suspect’ in Clansman trial

A senior police investigator in one of the shootings allegedly carried out by the Clansman Gang in 2017 yesterday insisted that a “possible suspect” is not a suspect at all as the gang trial continued…