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December 9, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Fake jobs, bogus invoices

A domestic helper unknowingly employed by the Ministry of Education is among the key allegations in the $25-million fraud case involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid and former Caribbean…
Former parliamentarian Karl Samuda.
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

No meeting of minds on committees stalemate

Karl Samuda, who was the leader of government business when then PM Bruce Golding handed the chairmanship of parliamentary oversight committees to the Opposition, has suggested that the experiment did…
Rudy Campbell stands beside the trunk of the guinep tree that fell on his Castleton, St Mary home of more than 20 years, completely destroying two rooms and damaging the others.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

Elderly farmer pleads for help to rebuild home destroyed by heavy rains

Rudy Campbell, from Castleton, St Mary, is living in a precarious condition. Just over a week ago, heavy rains and winds from a freak storm uprooted a guinep tree that landed on his four-bedroom…
District Officer Andre Fullwood of the Westmoreland Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade addressing a Westmoreland Municipal Corporation meeting last Thursday.
December 9, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

Westmoreland Fire Brigade reports surge in emergency calls amid ambulance challenges

WESTERN BUREAU: While fire calls were down by 14 per cent nationally in 2023-2024, the situation was far different in Westmoreland, which registered a staggering 35 per cent increase that was further…
Superintendent  Andrew Nish.
December 9, 2025 by Bryan Miller

Nish: Hanover looking at new strategies to sustain crime reduction

WESTERN NUREAU: Superintendent Andrew Nish, head of the Hanover Police Division, says he is encouraged by a significant decline in murders and shootings in the western parish. Despite this overall…
NPCA President Ivin Malahoo heaping praise on her colleagues for their dedicated service.
December 9, 2025 by Adrian Frater

Nat’l Patient Care Assn celebrates 35th anniversary

WESTERN BUREAU: A sea of pink and white filled the Glendevon New Testament Church of God in Montego Bay, St James, on Sunday as the National Patient Care Association (NPCA) celebrated its 35th…
Hamish Campbell, assistant commissioner of INDECOM Jamaica, revealling the findings of the oversight body’s ‘Special Investigative Report on Planned Police Operations’ during a press conference at its New Kingston offices on Thursday.
December 9, 2025 by Corey Robinson

FATAL RED FLAG

In one of every five planned police operations in which a civilian is killed at home, a female occupant of the premises is either removed or barred from the ill-fated area moments before the cops…
Dr Christopher Tufton
December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

Dawes demands probe into health ministry

Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Alfred Dawes says operations at the Ministry of Health and Wellness must be investigated following the tabling of the Integrity Commission (IC) report on the…
Residents of Gallery Apartments on Oxford Road in New Kingston looking at the burnt section of the complex, where 70-year-old Bill Barnes lost his life in an early morning fire on Thursday.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

70-y-o dies in fire at apartment complex

An early morning fire at Gallery Apartments on Oxford Road in New Kingston on Thursday claimed the life of a 70-year-old resident, leaving the community shaken and mourning the loss. The charred…