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Sharon Heslop-Holt, manager of commercial business development and marketing at MBJ Airports Limited, greets Damario Hutchinson, one of the tertiary beneficiaries of the MBJ Foundation Charity Run/Walk Grant.
Updated 9 hours ago by Albert Ferguson/Gleaner Writer

MBJ Foundation Fun Run/Walk donates $30m to 184 students, two schools in west

WESTERN BUREAU: Hundreds of students across western Jamaica are poised to benefit from a part of MBJ Airports Limited’s $30-million donation to education, which will also see funds going towards the rebuilding of schools damaged during the passage of Hurricane Melissa. Sharon Heslop-Holt, manager of commercial business development and marketing at MBJ Airports Limited, said the initiative continues to transform lives through the power of partnership and sustained corporate support.

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Robert Taylor, director of probation and aftercare.
March 19, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

More than 2,000 non-custodial offenders being supervised in communities islandwide

WESTERN BUREAU: Robert Taylor, director of probation and aftercare, says Jamaica’s probation service is currently supervising more than 2,000 non-custodial offenders across the island. Taylor made…
Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon
March 19, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Unapplied education hurting Jamaica’s productivity, says MoBay mayor

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is warning that education without application is unproductive, arguing that too many qualified persons are failing to translate their academic…
Robert Taylor, acting director of probation aftercare, speaking at the opening of the new probation office at 1 Gladstone “Pop” Lawrence Road in Montego Bay, St. James.
March 19, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Call made for probation officers to get remote allowance

WESTERN BUREAU Robert Taylor, the acting director of probation aftercare in the Department of Correctional Services, is urging the Government to grant aftercare probation officers a remote-inducement…
Brigadier (Ret’d) Radgh Mason, commissioner of corrections, addresses the recent opening of the St James Probation Office on Gladstone ‘POP’ Lawrence Road in Montego Bay, St James.
March 18, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

New sex offender rehab programme to launch this year

WESTERN BUREAU: Retired Brigadier Radgh Mason, the commissioner of corrections, says a new rehabilitation programme for sex offenders, aimed at giving those individuals a chance to change their…
Police Superintendent Coleridge Minto addressing the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation’s monthly general meeting on March 12.
March 17, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

St Bess cops concerned as more than 400 students still out of school after Melissa

WESTERN BUREAU: Superintendent of Police Coleridge Minto, the commander for St Elizabeth, is raising concern about the fact that some 400 students from across the parish have not returned to school…
From left: N. Fairclough-Hylton, senior parish court judge for St James; Shauna Trowers, chief technical director at the Ministry of National Security and Peace; Yvette Bouncher-Gardner, principal probation aftercare officer for the St James Probation Offi
March 14, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

St James’ new probation office to strengthen rehabilitation push, says Cuthbert-Flynn

WESTERN BUREAU: A newly retrofitted probation office, which was officially commissioned into service in St James yesterday, forms a part of the Government’s continued push to strengthen rehabilitation…
Richard Solomon, mayor of Black River.
March 13, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

‘I am not satisfied’

WESTERN BUREAU: Kenneth Brown, superintendent of roads and works at the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation (StEMC), has voiced disappointment over the condition of Independence Park in Black River,…
Yangsen Li, vice-president of the Fujian Association of Jamaica, presents hurricane relief supplies on behalf of the Chinese business community in Guadeloupe to Richard Vernon Jr, mayor of Montego Bay.
March 13, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Guadeloupe Chinese group donates $12m in relief supplies to St James

WESTERN BUREAU The Chinese business community in Guadeloupe has donated hurricane-relief supplies valued at US$80,000 ($12.5 million) to the St James Municipal Corporation in a show of support for…
Mayor of Montego Bay Richard Vernon (centre) looks on as Senator Charles Sinclair, councillor for the Montego Bay North West Division in the St James Municipal Corporation, presents the key to the renovated Flankers Postal Agency to Mytha Bahadur, regional
March 12, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Mayor: Post offices remain essential despite digital shift

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay’s Mayor, Richard Vernon, says that despite the growing use of digital platforms as communication tools, post offices and postal agencies remain relevant – particularly for…