The St Ann’s Bay Methodist Church is seeking to raise $9 million to purchase a pipe organ to replace the one destroyed in a February 2018 fire. The fire, in the early hours of Monday, February 19, destroyed the instrument, which was more than 100...
The Education Transformation Oversight Committee (ETOC) has indicated that the implementation of recommendations contained in the report of the Jamaica Education Transformation Commission, also known as the Patterson Report, are 30 per cent...
Professor John MacIntyre, chancellor of the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC), says real leadership is needed throughout society at this time. MacIntyre, whose appointment was announced by the UCC in February this year, was installed...
Seventeen-year-old Hampton School student, Caleader Lewison is the 2025 ‘Junior Minister of Tourism/, beating her two rivals in an exciting final at Sandals Ochi Beach Resort on Tuesday. The annual public speaking competition showcased the talents...
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Matthew Samuda, says the Government has allocated $350 million to lessen the impact of the dry spell affecting several regions across the island. Addressing a special...
Professor Clive Landis, pro vice-chancellor and principal of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill, has warned that the freedom to disagree peacefully is under threat. Speaking at the UWI Vice-Chancellor’s Forum on ‘Academic Freedom,...
The Jamaica Beach Birthright Environmental Movement (JaBBEM) says it is pleased with the issues emerging from the court case it has brought against the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) that seeks to allow public access to Little Dunn’s River in...
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness announced a raft of projects during a tour of Western St Mary with Member of Parliament Robert Montague. In describing the occasion as “a good day for the people of Western St Mary”, Montague said many of the...
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says the investment that the Government is making in the country’s healthcare system and road infrastructure is sustainable and will continue. Over the past decade or so, the Government has spent billions of dollars...
There’s a new kind of PEP trending and it’s not the Primary Exit Profile that is used to place primary school students in high school. It’s the kind that gets parents involved in their children’s well-being as it relates to their education,...
It is the transitional period, a natural biological process before menopause, where a woman might believe she’s actually dying based on what’s happening to her, physically and emotionally. For women not familiar with the effect before it actually...
Juici Patties has opened a new franchise in the booming Drax Hall area of St Ann, thanks to franchisees Shermaine Desnoes and Glen O’Connor, directors of Golden Grain Baking Company. The new location, at Boot service station, offers comfortable...
Professor Alvin Wint piqued the minds of the audience attending the 14th Marcus Garvey Lecture at the St Ann Parish Library on Friday, questioning whether Jamaica’s first national hero would have been pleased with the nation’s development thus far...
More than 30 young ladies from the Granville Place of Safety in Trelawny were fêted during an afternoon trip to the Bahia Principe Grand Jamaica hotel in Runaway Bay, St Ann, last Friday. The afternoon went well for the girls as they enjoyed lunch...
Ocho Rios-based dancehall veteran Mikeylous has joined a growing list of artistes to record songs in support of Burkina Faso’ president, Captain Ibrahim Traoré. Since Traoré became president after a coup in 2022, he has done countless positive...
A Calabash to Save the World, a production of Ntukuma, the Storytelling Foundation of Jamaica, takes place at the Little Theatre on Tom Redcam Drive in Kingston, from May 16 - 31. Founder and Artistic Director, Ntukuma’s Dr Amina Blackwood Meeks...
The Most Reverend Charles Dufour, Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston, and founder of the Good Shepherd Foundation of Montego Bay, has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Florida-based Friends of Good Shepherd...
A year after the successful inauguration of the St Mary Literary Festival, organiser Paul Ward has published a first book of a collection of the poetry and prose that were presented at the April 2024 launch in Port Maria, St Mary. The book, St...
Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI) Professor Sir Hilary Beckles is pleading with regional governments that own lands on which the UWI operates to give it to the university to enable the institution to access funding for...
The China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has commenced construction in Mammee Bay, St Ann, in a section of the Roaring River watershed area under the 50-year US$700-million concession agreement with the Jamaican Government to build the north-...
The Issa family’s contribution to the health sector in Jamaica traces back to the opening of the first Mary Issa clinic in 1955 in downtown Kingston. Seventy years later, Mary Issa’s grandson Paul Issa leads the charge to replace the now defunct...
People’s National Party’s (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell has blasted Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness, the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), for not fulfilling several promises he made to the Jamaican electorate. Most of those...
Director General of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), Ansord Hewitt, has reaffirmed the agency’s strong support for utility companies as they combat criminal activities targeting their infrastructure. Speaking at the Office of Utilities...
Late Chief Petty Officer Diana Drummond-Thomas of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast Guard was more than a soldier – she was a beacon of light to those around her, leaving a lasting, positive impression on everyone she met. One of those deeply...
The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has joined Education International’s (EI) global Go Public! Fund Education campaign, aimed at securing greater investment in education and addressing the global teacher shortage. With 44 million teachers...
