WESTERN BUREAU: Fisherfolk in St James are bracing for the effects of heavy rainfall and windy conditions associated with Hurricane Beryl. At the Montego Bay Fishing Village along Howard Cooke Boulevard in the Second City, fisherfolk were observed...
With Hurricane Beryl approaching the island, Prime Minister Andrew Holness urged Jamaicans not to panic but to treat it seriously and prepare strategically. Addressing a press briefing on Monday, Holness advised citizens to start gathering...
For Carol Dunkley*, each time it rains her home along Columbus Drive in New Haven, St Andrew, is flooded, and this week, should hurricane Beryl hit the island, she and her neighbours expect the worst to happen again. For years, residents living...
The National Commercial Bank (NCB) recently hosted a special Father’s Day Cocktail event at Reading Heights in St James in a heartwarming celebration of fatherhood that marked the culmination of a month-long tribute to fathers and father figures...
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang says that while strides have been made in improving the various benefits offered to both active and retired police personnel, support must still be provided to ensure that they receive...
After weeks of hammering from politicians linked to the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) about his status as a dual citizen, Opposition Leader Mark Golding yesterday announced that he would relinquish his British citizenship. However, political...
Demario Forskin, Jamaica’s Father of the Year 2024 awardee through the annual Eternal Father Awards, says the last year has not been smooth sailing for him. Thirteen months after the birth of his daughter, Brielle – which means ‘Heroine of God’ –...
President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) Lenworth Fulton is urging farmers across the country to start making preparations to cushion the effect of what could be the likely impact of Hurricane Beryl on Jamaica. Forecasters have placed...
The Government spent £185,659 (or J$36.2 million) for the services of the British legal team that represented Jamaica in the Vybz Kartel appeal before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) in the United Kingdom, official data obtained...
Sandino Hernandez* and his wife Dorothy*, a retiree, were overcome with compassion when a woman they met in June last year approached them for financial assistance three weeks later. The “timid, soft-spoken woman”, Jessica Fry*, indicated that her...
The history of racially motivated experimentation on black Americans within the United States health system – often conducted without their knowledge or consent – has had a detrimental impact on black healthcare in the country, asserts Jamaican-...
Senior members of Jamaica’s two main political parties say they are treating their respective upcoming annual conference seasons as the last major internal mass mobilisation efforts before the next general elections. The next parliamentary polls...
Relatives of Shankar Maragh are worried sick. They have not seen the 36-year-old, a deportee from the United States who battles mental illness, since April 2020. They hope he is still alive; his twin sister Shakeera is the most faithful, but with...
Disgraced former Minister of Education Ruel Reid has been paid $3.3 million in a settlement the Old Hope Road-based Jamaica College (JC) said would likely be cheaper than litigation. Reid, a former principal of all-boy institution, is before the...
Beginning in the small district of Macka Tree in St Catherine, Omar Brown’s story is one of resilience and determination. Born to a mother who was an informal vendor and a father who was a small chicken farmer, Brown, one of nine siblings, was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Principal of Maud McLeod High School Avis Bailey-Coleman says the institution has found an innovative way to enhance literacy among its cohort of students through technology. Bailey-Coleman revealed that Sandals Foundation has...
Already among the top achievers in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination, Whitter’s Institute graduates have been reminded that they are the architects of the future. The graduating class of 21 students basked in their accolades during the...
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) yesterday removed Jamaica from its Grey List. After four years on the list, the global money-laundering and terrorist financing watchdog struck Jamaica from the list of countries assessed as having strategic...
Whenever a resident in Mocho, Clarendon, visits their police station to make a report, they have to wait outside the containers that house the precinct for an available officer. This arrangement is less than ideal, Mocho resident Sheldon Allison...
WESTERN BUREAU: Six first-year students of the Mt Alvernia High School in Montego Bay, St James have received much-needed financial assistance from members of the school’s graduating class of 1989, with each student receiving $75,000 in aid to...
The Education Transformation and Oversight Committee (ETOC) has achieved “very strong implementation” of the recommendations from the Orlando Patterson report to date, its chair, Dr Adrian Stokes, asserted. Speaking at a press conference yesterday...
It remains unclear how many ventilators are assigned to neonatal intensive care and paediatric units at public hospitals across the island following the death of a premature newborn two weeks ago and a subsequent health ministry internal audit of...
In an apparent reversal of her November 2023 ruling, House Speaker Juliet Holness has signalled that the Integrity Commission’s (IC) 2023-2024 annual report will be tabled next Tuesday “in accordance with established procedures and protocols”. A...
Two opposition legislators, who sued the Government over a constitutional amendment to increase the retirement age of the director of public prosecutions (DPP) and the auditor general, are questioning the State’s move to appeal the Full Court’s...
