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December 9, 2025
Green champions Caribbean irrigation, investment priorities at FAO food forum
Jamaica last week underscored its leadership in advancing climate-resilient agriculture and regional food security during the Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum 2025, a flagship event of the World Food…
December 9, 2025
Jamaica Customs speaks data protection, legal affairs
Members of the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) utilised their presence at the Court Administration Division’s Public Education Day Symposium to raise awareness about the extensive legal functions…
December 9, 2025
by Lester Hinds
National healthcare body to receive US$300,000 worth of donated medical supplies
A trailer load of medical supplies, valued around US$300,000, is to be handed over this week to the National Healthcare Enhancement Foundation (NHEF). The handover ceremony is set to take place at the…
December 9, 2025
by Livern Barrett
‘Innocent right through’
J.D. Brown* visited the Oracabessa Police Station in St Mary on the night of July 8, 2016, to deliver food for a relative in custody. He chatted with the cops on duty at the time and described them as…
December 9, 2025
In limbo
A Supreme Court case has temporarily frozen the award of a government contract for the lease of medical diagnostic equipment, exposing apparent failings in Jamaica’s procurement oversight system. The…
December 9, 2025
by Sashana Small
SILENT SPREAD
When Ashley*, 53, started experiencing a sharp pain in her stomach and bleeding from the breast where she’d had a lump removed seven years earlier, she instinctively knew something was seriously…
December 9, 2025
Woman charged in relation to murder of 14-y-o Terona Thomas
A 25-year-old woman has been charged in connection with the murder of 14-year-old Pembroke Hall High School Terona Thomas, otherwise called ‘Tee-Tee', in Olympic Gardens, St Andrew in April. …
December 9, 2025
PNP takes issue with Tavares-Finson's application for a fiat to prosecute Norman Scott in assault case
The Opposition People's National Party is expressing "grave concern" regarding the application by Senator Tom Tavares-Finson for a fiat to prosecute Mayor of Spanish Town Norman Scott. …
December 9, 2025
Construction worker charged with Cobourn Gardens murder
The St Andrew South police have charged 20-year-old construction worker Romando Simpson, otherwise called ‘Prince’, with murder, possession of prohibited weapon and ammunition and using a firearm to…