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Hugh Wong Director of Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC), Heart Foundation of Jamaica.
August 20, 2026

Hugh Wong | Don’t wait – resuscitate: Why every Jamaican must learn CPR

We are taught from an early age how to wait. Waiting is a part of our day-to-day lives, whether it is sitting in traffic or standing in line to buy something. However, when it comes to cardiac arrest,…
Ashleigh Onfroy
August 20, 2026

Ashleigh Onfroy | Bridging educational inequality in secondary schools

There is consensus among social scientists that education is the most critical vehicle for development. Among its by-products are employment, social stability and character formation. However, in…
La Sonja Harrison, the newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, addresses the delegates at the third and final day of the association’s 62nd annual conference at the Ocean Coral Spring Hotel in Trelawny on Wednesday, August 19. H
August 20, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

‘I cannot change who I am’ - JTA boss vows to disrupt education status quo

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison says she cannot change, declaring that she will continue to challenge the status quo and ask uncomfortable questions on…
Gabrielle Dajue (centre) with her parents, Robert Dajue (right) and Phillipea Dajue, while Crescent All-Age School Principal Harris Francis stands in the background.
August 20, 2026 by Ruddy Mathison

Beecher Foundation awards 45 scholarships to St Catherine students

For 23 years, the Beecher Foundation has left a lasting mark on education in St Catherine, rewarding academic excellence and helping promising students make the transition from primary to secondary…
Plastic in a waterway in Trinidad & Tobago.
August 20, 2026

Earth Today | Trash doesn’t stop at the shoreline

PICTURE A fisherman returning to shore somewhere in the Caribbean. Alongside his catch, tangled in his net, are plastic bottles, food wrappers, and a lone flip-flop that clearly didn’t come from…
Resident volunteers in Parottee, St Elizabeth do their part to clean up a degraded mangrove forest in the community during a Bulky Waste Cleanup, in celebration of World Wetlands Day in February. The clean-up was part of the RE-LEAF initiative.
August 20, 2026

Earth Today | Urban Forest Run to help restore tree cover in western Jamaica

JAMAICANS ARE encouraged to don their running shoes this weekend, in support of restoring the tree cover lost in western Jamaica with the passage of the devastating Hurricane Melissa last October. The…
August 20, 2026

Earth Today | Report spotlights mental health cost of climate change

THE NEED to elevate mental health-related loss and damage from climate change as a key consideration for policymakers is among a set of recommendations from a recent global stocktake of national…
Lobster rolls from the cookbook ‘Home’ by Bryan Voltaggio.
August 20, 2026

Bryan Voltaggio makes his lobster rolls with a flavour-boosting soak

I’ve never been to Maine for a lobster roll, but the ones I’ve had in other places have been so good that I knew I needed to make one myself. This version is from my cookbook Home and is made with…
Over 100 young Jamaicans from communities across Kingston and St Andrew were hosted at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) on August 12 for an International Youth Day experience. Held under the theme ‘Different Communities. One Digital Future’, th
August 20, 2026

Corporate Hands | Grace & Staff connects 100+ youth to Jamaica’s digital future on International Youth Day 2026