Edmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

Trade unionist Lambert Brown.
January 7, 2026 by Edmond Campbell

Union rep chides regional health bodies for using workers’ deductions for other business

Trade unionist Senator Lambert Brown has condemned the practice by some regional health authorities of diverting employees’ deductions – intended for standing order obligations – to other uses such as…
Metry Seaga, PSOJ president.
January 6, 2026 by Edmond Campbell

Bracing for headwinds

A key sector leader has argued that despite the severe disruptions caused by Hurricane Melissa, which the International Monetary Fund estimates could depress economic output by between eight and 13…
Coffee beans that got damaged during the passage of Hurricane Melissa in Spring Hill, Portland.
December 22, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Battered beans

Making a case for more meaningful support from the Government toward one of the country’s long-standing industries, Donald Salmon, president of the Jamaica Coffee Growers Association, says coffee…
Donald Berry, coffee farmer in Spring Hill, Portland, checks for disease on coffee beans on his farm.
December 22, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

‘Coffee and Jamaica are close to my heart’

For nearly three decades, Donald Berry has put his energy and passion into producing Blue Mountain Coffee, and has had setbacks in the past. However, with the passage of Hurricane Melissa, he thought…
St Patrice Ennis, president of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions.
December 19, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Union leaders applaud move to make IDT awards digitally accessible

A prominent trade union leader has welcomed a recent move by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) to publish its awards and related industrial relations resources on its website, describing the…
President of the Jamaica Coffee Growers Association, Donald Salmon (left), shares a handshake with Dr Norman Grant (second right), president of the Jamaica Coffee Exporters Association, while Wayne Hunter (right), acting director general for the Jamaica Ag
December 18, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Coffee farmers cry for more assistance

Hit with losses estimated at $1 billion from the devastating effects of Hurricane Melissa, the local coffee industry yesterday received 5,000 bags of fertiliser and other key agricultural inputs…
Mayne
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

‘We intend to fight this’

State Minister for Finance and the Public Service Zavia Mayne has filed a lawsuit against the Integrity Commission (IC), asking the court to quash the ruling of the director of corruption prosecution…
Gary Allen, head of the Media Association Jamaica.
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

‘Absolutely not’

Senior figures within Jamaica’s media landscape have strongly rejected a call from a government lawmaker to reinstate criminal libel, arguing that such a move would roll back hard-won press freedoms…
Dr Tamika Benjamin, assistant chief education officer in the Tertiary Unit in the Ministry of Education.
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Community colleges struggle to bounce back from Melissa’s battering

A senior official in the Ministry of Education says community colleges heavily damaged by Hurricane Melissa have received interim clean-up grants to help remove debris from their campuses. With…