Lead Stories

Bjorn Reynolds, chief technical and innovation officer at Digicel.
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Digicel pushes for full restoration by year end

At least 75 per cent of Digicel customers in four of the parishes with significant impacts from Hurricane Melissa will have service restored to them within the next two weeks, according to the local…
Donna-Lee Donaldson, who was last seen on July 11, 2022.
December 9, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Defence questions reliability of DNA evidence

The defence in the murder trial of Constable Noel Maitland yesterday raised the possibility that the DNA of missing social media personality Donna-Lee Donaldson could have been transferred through…
Wayne Shaw, who has been farming for four decades, is happy that he signed up for the insurance scheme.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

Relief for farmers as insurance payouts begin

After Hurricane Melissa gutted his 10-acre farm in Ebony Park, Clarendon, destroying several acres of crops, Wayne Shaw is now finding some relief as one of more than 130 farmers to receive a payout…
Stacy-Ann Barnes, project coordinator at the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), and Kimberly Seymour-Brown, PADF project coordinator for community resilience and transformation.
December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

JCF boosts forensic expertise with advanced crime scene investigation training

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has strengthened its investigative capacity through specialised training designed to enhance the skills of forensic crime scene investigators (FCSIs) in modern…
AT TOP: Pastor Alexander Wurm and his 22-year-old daughter Serena.
December 9, 2025 by Janet Silvera

‘He was a hero!’

WESTERN BUREAU: The Caribbean relief community is hailing the Cayman Islands-based missionary Alexander Wurm as a true hero, a man whose final flight embodied selfless love and service to Jamaica.
Floyd Green, minister of agriculture, fisheries and mining, addresses the Parliament on the state of the agriculture sector on Tuesday.
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

$30b bite

Damage to Jamaica’s agriculture and fisheries sector from Hurricane Melissa is estimated at nearly $30 billion. The Category Five storm, whose local death toll officials placed at 45 on Tuesday, tore…
Lucea’s Mayor Sheridan Samuels (left) expressing his gratitude to Portmore’s Mayor Leon Thomas for the supplies he brought the people of Hanover.
December 9, 2025 by Adrian Frater

Portmore mayor delivers relief in hurricane-battered Hanover

WESTERN BUREAU: Portmore Mayor Leon Thomas became an instant hero to scores of residents in Haughton Court and surrounding communities in western Hanover on Monday when he arrived with a truckload of…
Steve Mahon, the caretaker at the Sir Alexander Bustamante Monument in Blenheim, Hanover
December 9, 2025

Blenheim battered but Busta’s monument escapes Melissa’s wrath

WESTERN BUREAU: Amid the widespread destruction left behind in Hanover, one remarkable symbol of resilience remains: the monument to Jamaica’s first prime minister and National Hero, Sir Alexander…
Mayor of Kingston and St. Andrew is Andrew Swaby
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

Kgn mayor calls for more resilient construction standards after Category 5 storm

Declaring that Hurricane Melissa has “exposed the need to strengthen national and municipal resilience”, Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby says a good place to start is updating Jamaica’s Small Building…