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Moses West, former US Army ranger and founder of AWG Contracting, who designed the atmospheric water system currently supplying drinking water to the Accompong Maroon community.
December 27, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

Standing firm amid fury

Western Bureau: As Hurricane Melissa tore across Jamaica on October 28, crippling power grids and shutting down water supply systems mainly in the western region, one machine high in the Cockpit…
Hugh Grant, president and CEO of JPS.
December 27, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

JPS lights up Treasure Beach

WESTERN BUREAU: A large Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Emergency Mobile Power Generation Unit now supplying electricity to Treasure Beach and surrounding communities was officially launched on…
A JN Foundation volunteer shows off some of the items inside the thrift shop established on the football field of the William Knibb Memorial High School last Sunday. The shop was one of the highlights of an event organised and hosted by FYI Consultancy Gro
December 27, 2025

Santa, stoves and second chances in Trelawny

It was not yet Christmas Eve, but it seemed like Grand Market came just a few days early for residents of Trelawny. From Martha Brae, Hague Settlement, Falmouth, and as far as Sherwood Content, they…
December 26, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Heavy-duty payout

The Supreme Court has ordered Jamaica North South Highway Company Limited and China Harbour Engineering Company Limited to pay heavy-duty truck driver Leon Mais $4,100,829.23 in damages, after finding…
Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of health and wellness.
December 26, 2025 by Christopher Thomas

Tufton expects Melissa-damaged western hospital buildings to be repaired by next month

WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says he is hopeful that the hospitals in western Jamaica, which took a battering from Hurricane Melissa, will be restored by the end…
Residents of Winchester Housing Scheme in Green Island, Westmoreland, helped a paraplegic senior from Glenbrook, Westmoreland to acquire a new wheelchair after being displaced by Hurricane Melissa.
December 26, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

Hope in motion

A paraplegic senior displaced by hurricane damage is regaining a measure of independence, thanks to swift community action and quiet generosity in Green Island, Westmoreland. The woman, Claudette…
Marsha Coore-Lobban, Jamaica’s high commissioner to Canada.
December 26, 2025 by Karen Madden

Jamaican diplomats in Canada working to meet diaspora demands

Just over two years since her Ottawa posting, Jamaica’s High Commissioner to Canada Marsha Coore-Lobban is hailing an improvement in consular services as being among her accomplishments, but admits to…
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…