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13 Oct, 2025 0

Fake jobs, bogus invoices

A domestic helper unknowingly employed by the Ministry of Education is among the key allegations in the $25-million fraud case involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid and former Caribbean…
Former parliamentarian Karl Samuda.
13 Oct, 2025 0

No meeting of minds on committees stalemate

Karl Samuda, who was the leader of government business when then PM Bruce Golding handed the chairmanship of parliamentary oversight committees to the Opposition, has suggested that the experiment did…
Rudy Campbell stands beside the trunk of the guinep tree that fell on his Castleton, St Mary home of more than 20 years, completely destroying two rooms and damaging the others.
13 Oct, 2025 0

Elderly farmer pleads for help to rebuild home destroyed by heavy rains

Rudy Campbell, from Castleton, St Mary, is living in a precarious condition. Just over a week ago, heavy rains and winds from a freak storm uprooted a guinep tree that landed on his four-bedroom…
District Officer Andre Fullwood of the Westmoreland Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade addressing a Westmoreland Municipal Corporation meeting last Thursday.
13 Oct, 2025 0

Westmoreland Fire Brigade reports surge in emergency calls amid ambulance challenges

WESTERN BUREAU: While fire calls were down by 14 per cent nationally in 2023-2024, the situation was far different in Westmoreland, which registered a staggering 35 per cent increase that was further…
Superintendent  Andrew Nish.
13 Oct, 2025 0

Nish: Hanover looking at new strategies to sustain crime reduction

WESTERN NUREAU: Superintendent Andrew Nish, head of the Hanover Police Division, says he is encouraged by a significant decline in murders and shootings in the western parish. Despite this overall…
NPCA President Ivin Malahoo heaping praise on her colleagues for their dedicated service.
13 Oct, 2025 0

Nat’l Patient Care Assn celebrates 35th anniversary

WESTERN BUREAU: A sea of pink and white filled the Glendevon New Testament Church of God in Montego Bay, St James, on Sunday as the National Patient Care Association (NPCA) celebrated its 35th…

Basil Watson’s bronze bust of National Heroine Nanny of the Maroons.
13 Oct, 2025 0

Queen Nanny did not sign the treaty

NOT MUCH is known about Queen Nanny’s early years on Earth. But the story is that she was from west Africa, from where many people were taken to the West Indies to work on various plantations under…
13 Oct, 2025 0

St James councillors want better communication from NSWMA on garbage collection

WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors at the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) are calling for an improvement in the communication between the National Solid Waste Management Authority’s [NSWMA] Western…
A streetlight being installed in a community in Guy’s Hill, St Catherine by a contractor from the Jamaica Public Service Company.
13 Oct, 2025 0

Streetlights brighten communities in Guy’s Hill

Twenty-seven streetlights have been installed in several communities in Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, providing a greater sense of safety and security for residents. The beneficiary communities are…