Despite the technological and other advances since 1951, the political will to make the well-needed appropriate investments in climate change adaptation and mitigation policies and strategies remains a vitally important missing link in the...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:11 AM
Ahead of the start of the new parliamentary term, one civil society group is urging the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to revisit the Bruce Golding model of allowing opposition members to chair sessional select committees. Mickel Jackson,...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:10 AM
US-based charity Team Jamaica Bickle (TJB) is to present 26 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to high schools and sports institutions across Jamaica. The handover ceremony is scheduled for 9am on Thursday, September 18 at the G.C Foster...
WESTERN BUREAU: Ocho Rios in St Ann is poised for explosive growth, with 10,000 homes, highways, and new business centres planned, Member of Parliament (MP) Matthew Samuda declared during the opening of Uncorked Ochi, located in Drax Hall, which...
WHILE SHE was on her way back to Jamaica from CARIFESTA in Barbados, spoken-word artiste/poet Kacy Garvey was announced the ‘Best International Artist’ at the prestigious National Spoken Word Awards, held on Friday, August 31. In speaking with The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is calling on Jamaicans to support the country’s arts culture, which he says is both crucial to Jamaica’s tourism and entertainment sectors and for the uplifting of societal structure. Vernon made...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:08 AM
FOR MANY students, the journey through high school is a mix of challenges and triumphs. But, for 16-year-old Mylon McCalla of Holland High School in Trelawny, the road to academic success was paved with extraordinary hardships, the kind that would...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:07 AM
WASHINGTON, DC: Twenty-six Howard University students of Jamaican heritage will receive a boost to their academic pursuits, thanks to scholarship awards of more than $100,000 to be delivered by the Jamaican Howard University Affinity Network (...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:07 AM
The Water Resources Authority (WRA), in partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has completed an isotope hydrology study into the Rio Bueno Sub-Watershed Management Unit (WMU). This project aims to evaluate how sinking as...
WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY’S First Dance Studio, which has been on a mission to uphold local arts and culture in western Jamaica since 2013, was on Monday presented with a $350,000 donation to help finance their operations. The donation, which was...
LINVAL AND Menervah Taylor believe that a good education is the key to success, as knowledge and learning empower individuals to achieve personal and professional goals, develop critical thinking skills, and adapt to changing circumstances For the...
TEN-YEAR-OLD Matthew Anderson is perhaps the youngest person in the Caribbean to pass subjects at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, an internationally recognised secondary school qualification in the Caribbean...
Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, is urging the municipal authorities and mayors across Jamaica to be vigilant and ensure all election paraphernalia are removed "within reasonable time". "It is important...
Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby has expressed disappointment that the by-election for the Seivwright Gardens division was not held on the same day as the September 3 General Election, citing the added financial burden to taxpayers. By-elections...
A dispute over the price of a tray of eggs is what may have set off a deadly chain of events in Manchester on Tuesday, which ended when a man, armed with two guns and more than 500 bullets, was shot and killed after a fierce stand-off and gun...
The Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) is calling for the Ministry of Education and Youth to introduce strict limitations on the actions schools can take against students who breach their grooming and dress code guidelines. In a media release...
The country is to be given an update on the swearing in of the new Government following a meeting tomorrow morning between Prime Minister-designate Dr Andrew Holness and Governor General Sir Patrick Allen. Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)...
The Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) has launched a new brand identity, aimed at signalling transformation, renewal, and a commitment to meeting the needs of today’s students. Executive Director, Nickeisha Walsh, tells JIS News that the rebrand is...
Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby is calling for the introduction of a structured system to ensure the timely removal of campaign signs and other paraphernalia following elections. Speaking at Tuesday’s monthly sitting of the Kingston and St Andrew...
The Catherine North police are seeking the public’s assistance to locate two men who have been listed as persons of interest in an ongoing investigation. One of the men, Orville Roache, otherwise called ‘Jermaine’, ‘Banton’, ‘Suchie’, ‘Bob’ or ‘...
LONDON (AP) — A 57-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly possessing tear gas that is believed to have caused the partial evacuation of a terminal at Heathrow Airport. About 20 people treated by paramedics were not seriously injured in...
A teenager was among two people injured in a gun attack at a bar along Old Harbour Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine on Monday night. They remain in hospital. The police say the search continues to capture the attackers. It is reported that...
PARIS (AP) — French President Macron late Tuesday appointed Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister and tasked him with immediately trying to get the country’s fractious political parties to agree on a budget for one of...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations is issuing an emergency appeal for nearly $140 million in desperately needed funding to help nearly a half-million people affected by the devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan...
The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) is to decide today whether to seek magisterial recounts in Trelawny Northern and St Catherine East Central, where the party says the number of rejected ballots exceeded the margins of victory. The...
