As Jamaica rings in the new year, the nation’s leaders are calling for citizens to face the future with determination, unity, and clarity of purpose, drawing confidence from a shared experience grounded in faith in God and one another. Governor......

At least two investors impacted by a multibillion-dollar fraud uncovered at investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) are viewing last weekend’s arrests of three of the entities former senior officials as positive progress in the ongoing...

Pioneering Jamaican broadcaster, educator, dancer and actress Alma Mock Yen is being hailed for profoundly shaping the Jamaican and Caribbean media landscape and the careers of generations of broadcast journalists. Mock Yen passed away at home on......

While commending the Government for allocating $75 million to assist churches’ recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, Immediate Past Chairman of the Jamaica Umbrella Groups of Churches, Dr Elaine McCarthy Nunes, said the sum is a ...

The New York City (NYC) public education system, the largest in the United States, is to be headed by Jamaica-born Kamar Samuels. NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed Samuels, a veteran educator in the New York public school system, to be the...

The year is ending on a positive note for a group of volunteers who, in early December, was alarmed by the theft of a shipping container with relief supplies destined for Jamaica at a storage facility in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Isaac Laird...

The Public Service Commission (PSC) has ordered the immediate reinstatement of an officer who was suspended after raising concerns about procurement practices at the Houses of Parliament (HoP), according to the officer’s attorney. The officer was....

WESTERN BUREAU: Reverend Godfrey Watson, chairman of the St Elizabeth Ministers’ Fraternal, says many churches across the parish will forgo their traditional watch night services to welcome the New Year as they continue to grapple with the effect...

Students at the Sydney Pagon STEM Academy in St Elizabeth will return to school on a shift system when classes resume on January 6 as the institution continues to recover from extensive damage caused by Hurricane Melissa. Principal Milbert Miller......

Opposition spokesman on education, Damion Crawford, says he is prepared to take the Government to court to defend what he describes as the constitutional right to early childhood education, citing Section 13(k) of the Jamaican Constitution, which......

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Mark Malabver is calling for the mandatory installation of a diversion programme in schools to assess children who may have learning deficiencies or behavioural issues, to ease pressure...

WESTERN BUREAU: As 2025 draws to a close, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says Jamaica’s tourism sector is staging a strong and confidence-boosting recovery just weeks after the island was battered by Hurricane Melissa. Two months after the storm...

WESTERN BUREAU: With the 2026 Easter term set to begin next week, school administrators are again calling on the Ministry of Education to review its funding model, arguing that the current per-student allocation is no longer adequate to meet their.....

While several business owners across the Corporate Area have expressed dissatisfaction with their Christmas sales, one downtown Kingston entrepreneur is revelling in the increased profits from the holiday season. The manager of Rockland Furniture.....

Fears of a disease outbreak are mounting in Blackstonedge, St Ann, where residents say they are being forced to live alongside uncollected garbage and are now pleading for urgent intervention from the waste and health authorities. “We’re asking....

Jamaica is closing out the year with a dramatic fall in murders, recording a 42 per cent fall in murders at the end of 52 weeks with 666 killings, the lowest number recorded since 1994. That year some 690 people were killed. While the country await....

WESTERN BUREAU: For nearly four decades, Christmas Day in Barnett Town has meant more than celebration. It meant preparation, hope, and a fresh start for hundreds of children in the St James-based community. This year was no different, as more than....

WESTERN BUREAU: Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says the Government has diverted $372 million from its National Energy Poverty Reduction Programme to support households severely affected by Hurricane Melissa, starting with St Elizabeth and extending to......

Law-enforcement officials are seeking to quell public criticisms of the near three-year investigation into the alleged multibillion-dollar fraud at collapsed investment firm Stocks...

Effective January 1, Jamaicans in the United States (US) sending money to relatives in their homeland will have to pay a one per cent excise tax on those remittances. The one per cent tax is set out in the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ passed by the US.....