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Thieves targeting solar energy systems in Hanover

WESTERN BUREAU: Thieves wreaking havoc across Hanover are zeroing in on solar systems, with the Hopewell Sports and Community Centre, the Sandy Bay Health Centre, and Cousins Cove Primary School all…
Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett (left) seated next to St Kitts and Nevis’s tourism minister, Marsha Henderson, and other leaders during the Council of Ministers meeting in Guyana on Tuesday.
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Bartlett pushes visitor-backed fund to protect Caribbean tourism

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is proposing a visitor-backed fund to help protect the Caribbean’s tourism industry from future shocks. The proposed Caribbean Tourism…
Members of the Jamaica Defence Force and Trekkers Adventures lead participants in the Sandals Foundation Island Challenge on a military-style trek through the Blue Mountain range, starting at Newcastle in St Andrew.
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Falmouth Hospital to benefit from $21m Island Challenge fundraiser

The paediatric and neonatal unit at Falmouth Public General Hospital is set to receive critical medical equipment following the successful completion of the Sandals Foundation Island Challenge, which…
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PSOJ urges water planning overhaul as drought threatens economy

Worsening drought conditions have prompted the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) to call for an urgent “national reset” in the country’s water planning. The business group’s call comes as…
Senator Floyd Morris.
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Morris calls for informal settlements to be upgraded

WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Floyd Morris, the opposition spokesman on housing and sustainable living, is proposing that at least 30 per cent of the $11.4 billion annually extracted from the National…
Daiana Arapiuns, who is part of the Arapium Indigenous group, sits with relatives holding a box containing a donated solar-power system in the Nova Sociedade community near Santarem, Para state, Brazil, September 3.
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Solar power helps Amazon communities prepare for El Niño drought

SANTAREM, Brazil (AP): For the riverine community of Nova Sociedade, deep inside a protected area of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the Arapiuns River is the only route to the outside world The Arapiuns…
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Students represent Jamaica at Robotics Olympics

An eight-member Jamaican robotics team is representing the island in South Korea at the 10th staging of the FIRST® Global Challenge, also known as the First Global Robotics Olympics, which starts…
Peter McConnell (right), managing director of Trade Winds Citrus Limited, hands over the Tru-Juice 5K Run/Walk donation to Camile Wallen-Panton, CEO of Linstead Public Hospital, at a ceremony held at the hospital on Monday.
07 Oct, 2026 0

Tru-Juice 5K raises record $9.2m for hospital

The Tru-Juice 5K Run/Walk has raised a record $9.2 million for Linstead Public Hospital, the largest donation in the event’s 11-year history. The cheque was formally handed over during a ceremony at…
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Drought conditions affecting water supply in sections of Manchester

The National Water Commission (NWC) is reporting that some customers in Manchester are experiencing low pressure or no water supply due to drought conditions impacting operations at its Moravia…