WHEN KIDS GET CAUGHT A 62-year-old grandmother is wishing for a better 2026, and hopefully an end to the troubles she has been enduring since her 16-year-old grandson, an honour roll student and prefect at a St Andrew-located high school, was charged with sexually...
NRSC wary of road fatality U-turn With road fatalities poised to break a three-year downward trend, Dr Lucien Jones, vice chairman of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC), is urging the introduction of protocols to test the blood of drivers suspected of drinking and driving. “We...
We want a proper road not a skating rink, say fuming Moy Hall residents Western Bureau: Residents of Moy Hall in St James are now hopping mad, saying infrastructure work to install a water pipeline system and additional work to replace the old asphalt road with concrete surface have left their hillside community with...
St James Health Department to launch $60m rodent, mosquito control programme WESTERN BUREAU: Amid the ongoing restoration work in St James in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, the St James Health Department says it will be conducting an unprecedented $60-million rodent and mosquito control programme in sections of Montego...
Santa, stoves and second chances in Trelawny It was not yet Christmas Eve, but it seemed like Grand Market came just a few days early for residents of Trelawny. From Martha Brae, Hague Settlement, Falmouth, and as far as Sherwood Content, they came and converged on the football field of the...
JPS lights up Treasure Beach WESTERN BUREAU: A large Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Emergency Mobile Power Generation Unit now supplying electricity to Treasure Beach and surrounding communities was officially launched on Wednesday, marking a major step forward in restoring...
Standing firm amid fury Western Bureau: As Hurricane Melissa tore across Jamaica on October 28, crippling power grids and shutting down water supply systems mainly in the western region, one machine high in the Cockpit Country mountains kept producing clean drinking water...
Heavy-duty payout The Supreme Court has ordered Jamaica North South Highway Company Limited and China Harbour Engineering Company Limited to pay heavy-duty truck driver Leon Mais $4,100,829.23 in damages, after finding them negligent in relation to a 2015 crash on...
Hope in motion A paraplegic senior displaced by hurricane damage is regaining a measure of independence, thanks to swift community action and quiet generosity in Green Island, Westmoreland. The woman, Claudette Quest from Glenbrook, Westmoreland, has been...
Tufton expects Melissa-damaged western hospital buildings to be repaired by next month WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says he is hopeful that the hospitals in western Jamaica, which took a battering from Hurricane Melissa, will be restored by the end of January, easing the current need for field...