Livern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter
19 Nov, 2025
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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…
05 Nov, 2025
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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…
04 Nov, 2025
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‘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…
02 Nov, 2025
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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…
31 Oct, 2025
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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,…
14 Oct, 2025
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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…
02 Oct, 2025
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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…
30 Sep, 2025
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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…
18 Sep, 2025
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‘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…