Lead Stories
December 30, 2025
by Christopher Thomas
FUNDING FLAW
WESTERN BUREAU: With the 2026 Easter term set to begin next week, school administrators are again calling on the Ministry of Education to review its funding model, arguing that the current per-student…
December 30, 2025
by Sashana Small
Mixed bag for Kingston vendors as Melissa squeezes Christmas shoppers
While several business owners across the Corporate Area have expressed dissatisfaction with their Christmas sales, one downtown Kingston entrepreneur is revelling in the increased profits from the…
December 30, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
Garbage pile-up sparks outbreak fears in Blackstonedge
Fears of a disease outbreak are mounting in Blackstonedge, St Ann, where residents say they are being forced to live alongside uncollected garbage and are now pleading for urgent intervention from the…
December 30, 2025
by Andre Williams
Jamaica nears year-end with lowest murder toll since 1994
Jamaica is closing out the year with a dramatic fall in murders, recording a 42 per cent fall in murders at the end of 52 weeks with 666 killings, the lowest number recorded since 1994. That year some…
December 30, 2025
by Albert Ferguson
Duke of Earle delivers hope, again
WESTERN BUREAU: For nearly four decades, Christmas Day in Barnett Town has meant more than celebration. It meant preparation, hope, and a fresh start for hundreds of children in the St James-based…
December 30, 2025
Govt to repair, rewire 800 storm-ravaged homes, says Vaz
WESTERN BUREAU: Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says the Government has diverted $372 million from its National Energy Poverty Reduction Programme to support households severely affected by Hurricane…
December 29, 2025
by Livern Barrett
SSL ‘execs’ face court Jan 26
Law-enforcement officials are seeking to quell public criticisms of the near three-year investigation into the alleged multibillion-dollar fraud at collapsed investment firm Stocks & Securities…
December 29, 2025
by Lester Hinds
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ remittance tax takes hold this week
Effective January 1, Jamaicans in the United States (US) sending money to relatives in their homeland will have to pay a one per cent excise tax on those remittances. The one per cent tax is set out…
December 29, 2025
by Christopher Thomas
St James Health Department renting 15 garbage trucks for clean-up effort
WESTERN BUREAU: Lennox Wallace, parish manager for the St James Health Department, says the department is arranging to rent several garbage trucks to carry out its own waste collection in sections of…