Livern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Roof damage can be seen at Elderslie Primary School in St Elizabeth, where at least four families are still sheltering.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

Principal denies shelter eviction order

No authorisation has been granted by the Ministry of Education for classes to resume at a primary school in northwest St Elizabeth, where at least four families have been sheltering since Hurricane…
Elderslie in St Elizabeth after the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

HURRICANE FARE HIKE

Taxi operators between Santa Cruz and several hurricane-ravaged communities in northern St Elizabeth have hiked their fares by more than 400 per cent, angry residents have complained. Instead of the…
Sixty year old Juliet Clarke of Ipswich, St. Elizabeth, sits atop the rubble of her three bedrood board house after it collapsed during the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

‘God is good and we still have life’

An open cellar beneath the ruins of her house is where Juliet Clarke now lives with her three-year-old granddaughter and a mentally-disabled man she cares for, but that has not shaken her faith. The…
Nicola Gowdie sits in tears among the remains of her house on Crane Road, St Elizabeth, on October 30.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

Appeal for patience

A member of the national committee tasked with coordinating the post-Hurricane Melissa response is appealing for more patience, from desperate residents in some of the hardest-hit areas, as their…
Members of the Jamaica Defence Force hand out care packages to residents of Crane Road in St Elizabeth.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

First steps to relief

Three separate vehicles carrying food, water and other basic supplies drew long lines of residents desperate to get anything as night fell over the hurricane-ravaged town of Black River, St Elizabeth,…
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

Convictions of foreign nationals serve as warning against cash transactions over $1m

The convictions of two foreign nationals who travelled to Jamaica to collect thousands of dollars in United States (US) currency for a business transaction with a local company, in breach of Jamaican…
Dane Nicholson, head of National Commercial Bank’s fraud prevention division.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

Bank exec on rape rap

A senior executive at the National Commercial Bank (NCB), Dane Nicholson, is facing serious criminal charges in connection with alleged sex-related offences involving a female employee, court records…
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December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

DPP mulls appeal after ‘lenient’ sentence in endangered animal smuggling case

The country’s prosecutorial authority is contemplating whether to lodge an appeal against what environmental watchers call a “tap on the back” sentence imposed on three men – two of them Honduran…
House Clerk Colleen Lowe (right) administers the oath of allegiance as Keith Duncan is sworn in as a government senator in Gordon House on Thursday.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

‘I’M A FREE THINKER’

Government Senator Keith Duncan has declared that he is a “free thinker” who is “not bound by any one political organisation”. Further, Duncan said the policies of the governing Jamaica Labour Party…