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Describing the Hermitage Dam in St Andrew as a “national risk”, Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, disclosed that plans are in progress to replace its wall. Speaking at a virtual forum,...
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Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says concerns about the revenue shortfall in March 2024 are “misplaced”. Clarke, who was responding to several questions raised about the development, including from senior economist Dr...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Braco in Trelawny now have access to potable water from the National Water Commission (NWC) for the first time in Jamaica’s history. This was done through a $90 million NWC in-house project and is expected to benefit...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay’s Mayor Richard Vernon is calling on central Government to create a special fund geared at financing the western city’s continued development and management, particularly in light of the perpetual tourism traffic brought...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Parish Court is expected to issue a request for Shamoya Green, the St James woman accused of fatally throwing her five-month-old daughter off a three-storey roof in December 2023, to get psychiatric treatment at the...
On Sunday when the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands meets in Montego Bay for their first convocation in six years, Reverend Dr Jooseop Keum, general secretary, Council for World Mission, will have a message to deliver about unity....
With reports from the Jamaica Constabulary Force revealing that fraudsters have fleeced more than $300 million from commercial banks over the last three years, Opposition lawmaker Fitz Jackson has chided the Bank of Jamaica for not being “...
Some 40 per cent of the US$4.38 billion that the tourism sector earned for the 2023-2024 fiscal year was retained in the Jamaica economy, tourism minister Edmund Bartlett has disclosed. Addressing yesterday’s post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica...
Omar Collymore, who is accused of masterminding the daring day-light murder of his wife, was yesterday branded a “stranger to truth” as the prosecutor ripped into his evidence, highlighting several apparent inconsistencies and contradictions. “You...
THE LEADERSHIP of Denham Town High School has undertaken the bold task of transforming the institution into a safe haven for its students through psychosocial intervention. The school, which is located in the inner city of west Kingston, has not...
WESTERN BUREAU: ST JAMES HIGH School’s board of management has indicated that it may take another week before its personnel committee will complete its ongoing investigation into accusations that the school’s principal, Joseph Williams, expelled...
Christel House Jamaica (CHJ) has officially launched a second phase of development for its tuition-free school. Sally Porteous, co-founder and national ambassador of CHJ, told journalists during the groundbreaking ceremony yesterday at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: SASHA-GAYE FORRESTER, the girlfriend of Donathon Dillon, the man who died after his motorcycle collided with a cow in Westmoreland last Friday night, has been left infuriated by what she claims was negligence on the part of the...
The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has found itself in a spot of bother, one political commentator believes while another has suggested that the party may have time to correct its path ahead of the parliamentary election due by September 2025...
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is reporting significant growth in the sector for the 2023-2024 fiscal year, with gross earnings amounting to US$4.38 billion, a 9.6 per cent increase over the corresponding financial year. Providing an overview of...
ROVAIRE SHIRLEY is just four months old, but has already undergone eight surgeries to give him a chance at a normal life. He was born with spina bifida, a condition that affects the spine and often results in damage to the spinal cord and nerves....
