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Nicola McCarthy (third right), grade-six teacher, with her students back in school at the Mount Fletcher Primary in Mavis Bank, St Andrew, after Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

Residents rally to keep children in school despite commuting issues

When Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica with Category 5 strength, raging floodwaters swept away several bridges, including one at Hagley Gap, on the border of St Andrew and St Thomas, and another…
Glenmuir High School in May Pen, Clarendon.
December 9, 2025 by Raymond Graham

Glenmuir High back in full swing after Hurricane Melissa

With Hurricane Melissa disrupting high schools across rural Jamaica – many still unable to resume full classes because of infrastructural damage – Glenmuir High in May Pen, Clarendon, has emerged as a…
Lenworth Hyde
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

Hyde’s call for schoolboy football cancellation faces opposition

AS ORGANISERS continue to grapple with the decision of when or if to restart the suspended 2025 schoolboy football season after the devastation caused by the passage of Hurricane Melissa, one highly…
Minister of Agriculture Floyd Green speaking in Parliament on November 11, 2025.
December 9, 2025

Jamaica to import eggs, select fruits and vegetables amid devastation caused to agriculture by Melissa

Agriculture Minister Floyd Green says Jamaica will have to turn to external sources to fill anticipated gaps in critical food items such as eggs, fruits, and vegetables in the coming months. Green…
Floyd Green, minister of agriculture, fisheries and mining, addresses the Parliament on the state of the agriculture sector on Tuesday.
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

$30b bite

Damage to Jamaica’s agriculture and fisheries sector from Hurricane Melissa is estimated at nearly $30 billion. The Category Five storm, whose local death toll officials placed at 45 on Tuesday, tore…
ANOTHER ONE (right), ridden by Shane Ellis, wins the Mother’s Day Special ahead of LOCKDOWN (Paul Francis) over five furlongs straight at Caymanas Park on Saturday, May 10.
December 9, 2025 by Ainsley Walters

Another One to make amends in Stargas

ANOTHER ONE should make amends when he tackles overnight-allowance for the third time in Saturday’s feature for the Stargas United Racehorse Trainers Association of Jamaica trophy. Bred to sprint,…
‘Simply Winnie’ by Winnie Harlow is set to be released on June 2, 2026.
December 9, 2025 by Ruth

Winnie Harlow’s ‘Simply Winnie’ gets thumbs up from Reggae Girl

Reggae Girl Tiffany Cameron is hailing Jamaican-Canadian supermodel Winnie Harlow’s latest milestone, a children’s book – Simply Winnie – set to be released in June. The professional footballer…
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December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

Charges recommended for councillors over failure to file declarations

Integrity Commission Director of Corruption Prosecution Roneiph Lawrence has recommended charges against two sitting and two former councillors for repeatedly failing to file their statutory…
His court date is being finalised.
December 9, 2025

St Elizabeth man arrested and charged for breaking into appliance store

The police in St Elizabeth have charged a man for breaking into an appliance store located in Siloah. He is 37-year-old labourer Denvor Palmer of Plantain Walk district in Siloah, who is charged with…