Lead Stories

Donald Berry, coffee farmer in Spring Hill, Portland, checks for disease on coffee beans on his farm.
December 22, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

‘Coffee and Jamaica are close to my heart’

For nearly three decades, Donald Berry has put his energy and passion into producing Blue Mountain Coffee, and has had setbacks in the past. However, with the passage of Hurricane Melissa, he thought…
Dr Maria Myers-Hamilton, managing director of the Spectrum Management Authority.
December 22, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Supreme Court puts pause on SMA probe

The Supreme Court has granted the Spectrum Management Authority (SMA) and its managing director, Dr Maria Myers-Hamilton, permission to seek judicial review of two notices linked to an ongoing…
Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda.
December 22, 2025

Antigua PM tackles T&T counterpart over claim CARICOM has ‘lost its way’

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): The Antigua and Barbuda government yesterday disputed recent comments by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar that the 15-member regional integration…
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett (right) pauses for a photo opportunity ahead of the Harmonies of Hope relief concert with Dr Wes Hall, chancellor of the University of Toronto, and Dr Donette Chin-Loy Chang, chancellor of the Toronto Metropolitan Unive
December 22, 2025 by Sophia Findlay

JTB Canada’s ‘Harmonies of Hope’ concert raises CDN$3m for Melissa relief

In a display of global solidarity and national pride, the Jamaican diaspora in Canada has delivered one of the largest single contributions to the island’s Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts, raising…
Professor Elsa Leo-Rhynie (left), former chair of the Dudley Grant Memorial Trust, has the captive attention of (from second left) Professor Zoyah Kinkead-Clark, Early Childhood Care and Education, The University of the West Indies (UWI); Alma Jean Panton,
December 22, 2025

Dudley Grant: Visionary architect of early childhood education

Despite all its ongoing challenges, the current early childhood sector is a far cry from what it was prior to the revolutionary intervention and impact of Dudley Grant. For more than a century, early…
The devastation at Maggotty High School after the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
December 21, 2025 by Janet Silvera

Reopening anxiety

WESTERN BUREAU: With schools set to fully reopen in two weeks, anxiety is mounting among the principals of some hurricane-damaged institutions as they grapple with unclear repair timelines, safety…
Neurosurgeon Dr Roger Hunter.
December 21, 2025 by Kimone Francis

Hunter takes aim at Tufton

Neurosurgeon Dr Roger Hunter has filed an application in the Supreme Court for an emergency judicial review, accusing Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton of dereliction of duty. At the…
Troupe
December 21, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Defamation damages dumped

The Court of Appeal has overturned multimillion-dollar defamation awards against Television Jamaica (TVJ) and CVM, ruling that the broadcasters did not defame St James councillors Michael Troupe and…
The Accident and Emergency entrance of the Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny was extensively damaged during the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
December 21, 2025 by Christopher Thomas

‘The breeze was hitting the babies’

WESTERN BUREAU: Although Hurricane Melissa’s passage on October 28 brought destruction and death, that fateful week still marked an unforgettable milestone for many expectant mothers in western…