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24 Dec, 2025
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Project STAR, UNDP launch ‘Cash for Care & Work’ initiative in Sav-la-Mar, Salt Spring
Project STAR has strengthened its post–Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts with the launch of a Cash for Care & Work Initiative, implemented in partnership with the United Nations Development…
24 Dec, 2025
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Mary’s Child hails support from Fontana’s Wishing Tree
Nadia Williams, administrator of Mary’s Child, says community partnerships are vital in helping teenage mothers rebuild their lives. Her comments came as Fontana completed one of its Christmas Wishing…
24 Dec, 2025
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Janet Richards Foundation targeting Bolt for more help
Western Bureau: Chairman of the Janet Richards Foundation, Janet Richards, says she will be reaching out to the Usain Bolt Foundation to help transform the play area at the St James-based Mustard Seed…
24 Dec, 2025
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Christmas of yesteryear in Jamaica
Up to the end of the 20th century Christmas celebrations were more widely anticipated in Jamaica, secularly and religiously, than they are nowadays. The days leading up to Christmas were full of…
24 Dec, 2025
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Colonel Sterling laments end of Jonkunnu in Moore Town
The Jonkunnu festivity at Moore Town, a Maroon village in East Portland’s Rio Grande Valley, has died a slow, natural death — leaving residents with a quiet resolve. Colonel of the Moore Town Maroons,…
24 Dec, 2025
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TRUE Pet Food delivers relief for animals
When the winds died down and the floodwaters began to recede, the true cost of Hurricane Melissa slowly came into view. Beyond damaged homes and disrupted lives, another crisis unfolded quietly across…
24 Dec, 2025
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JPS Foundation gives a helping hand to Brown’s Town Community College
Fourteen students at Brown’s Town Community College (BTCC) will benefit from a $1 million JPS Foundation partnership to support its electrical installation programme. Sophia Lewis, head of the…
24 Dec, 2025
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Residents in hurricane-impacted communities receiving cash vouchers
Hundreds of residents in parishes severely impacted by Hurricane Melissa are receiving cash vouchers just in time for Christmas. The disbursement, which started on December 17, is being undertaken by…
24 Dec, 2025
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Police pledge full security support for St Elizabeth New Year’s Eve fireworks
Superintendent Coleridge Minto, head of the St Elizabeth Police Division, has assured residents and visitors that the parish is safe and ready to host major public events, as he threw his full support…