Andre Williams - Staff Reporter

Mickel Jackson, executive director of Jamaicans for Justice, at a peaceful protest calling for an end to police violence in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, last April.
January 4, 2026 by Andre Williams

2025: The policing year written in blood

The year 2025 will be remembered as a paradoxical year for Jamaica as despite recording a historic low in overall murders, the past 12 months have been overshadowed by a grim countertrend: an…
A single rod used to ground the establishment is all that is left of Eggy’s on the Beach in Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth.
December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

‘Mi seven youth broke mi heart’

Two seniors who once had thriving culinary establishments at separate locations in the Hurricane Melissa-ravaged parish of St Elizabeth ponder their next move, living a reality that is as…
From left: Vivienne Williams, supervisor at Westhaven Children’s Home; dancehall star Vybz Kartel and Daniella Hall, community outreach organiser for Central Jamaica at World Central Kitchen on the grounds of Westhaven Children’s Home in Hanover on Thu
December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

Vybz Kartel pledges long-term support to children’s home in Hanover

Vybz Kartel was moved to tears as he stood among a group of children with disabilities at the Westhaven Children’s Home in Copse, Hanover, on Thursday. Many of the children at the privately operated…
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December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

A war on drugs

“Cocaine is a major source of funding for the gangs in Jamaica.” That was the blunt assessment from a US administration official during a September 19 high-level briefing last Friday in Kansas City,…