Lead Stories

Several travel advisers listening attentively during a special welcome dinner for Apple Leisure Group (ALG) at RIU Montego Bay in St James on Saturday.
February 2, 2026 by Corey Robinson

Tourism sector expects strong end to winter season, following Melissa

Only a handful of major and small hotels remain closed in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, as the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) anticipates a strong end to the winter season this year. Edmund…
Two young children carefully cross downed cable wires on their way home from school in Rose Hall, St James, last Friday.
February 1, 2026 by Janet Silvera

Billion-Dollar Collapse

WESTERN BUREAU: Three months after Hurricane Melissa struck western Jamaica, large sections of the community cable network remain dark, leaving operators to confront an estimated $1.4 billion in…
Delroy Chuck, minister of justice and constitutional affairs, notes that in the event of the death of the witnesses to a will – or if they can no longer be located – a will should be rewritten.
February 1, 2026 by Erica Virtue

Where there’s no will ...

At 83, Albertha H. is clear about one thing: she will not be tempting fate by making a will. “You a invite dead?” she fires back, half-laughing, half-challenging, when asked if she worries about dying…
Dr Kanchana Coore
February 1, 2026 by Erica Virtue

DEATHBED CONFIDANTE

By the time patients reach the final stretch of their lives, the questions they bring to Dr Kanchana Bandara Coore are rarely medical alone. They are about children who will be left behind, marriages…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness.
February 1, 2026 by Livern Barrett

Holness seeks update on FID probe

Lawmakers should consider amending the laws governing public bodies with investigative powers by including provisions to protect citizens from reputational damage, legal experts have suggested. The…
Sixty-eight-year-old Willie Rowe points to a section of land that he bought from the National Housing Trust and is now fenced off by another state entity.
February 1, 2026 by Sashana Small

‘I can’t even walk on my own land’

A 68-year-old man’s lifelong dream of owning a home is in jeopardy amid claims that the Ministry of Housing has encroached on his property in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Fighting back tears, Willie…
Floyd Green, minister of agriculture and prosecution witness.
January 31, 2026 by Tanesha Mundle

‘I did not see’

Agriculture Minister Floyd Green yesterday admitted in the Home Circuit Court that, while he witnessed parts of a 2013 police operation along Acadia Drive, St Andrew, he did not see the actual killing…
Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade.
January 31, 2026 by Kimone Francis

Johnson Smith touts Jamaica as ‘place to be’ for int’l investors

PANAMA CITY, Panama: Jamaica’s foreign minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, has issued a clarion call to international investors to partner in the strategic redevelopment of the island’s western…
Patrick Hylton, the new president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), addressing a press briefing and official introduction at the PSOJ’s head office in St Andrew on Thursday.
January 31, 2026

Former banker Patrick Hylton to bat for small business as PSOJ head

Having spent years at the helm of Jamaica’s largest financial institution, new president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Patrick Hylton says he will use his experience to pave the…