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December 27, 2025 by Corey Robinson

WHEN KIDS GET CAUGHT

A 62-year-old grandmother is wishing for a better 2026, and hopefully an end to the troubles she has been enduring since her 16-year-old grandson, an honour roll student and prefect at a St…
A section of the Moy Hall road which has both pedestrians and motorists concerned.
December 27, 2025 by Adrian Frater

We want a proper road not a skating rink, say fuming Moy Hall residents

Western Bureau: Residents of Moy Hall in St James are now hopping mad, saying infrastructure work to install a water pipeline system and additional work to replace the old asphalt road with concrete…
Dr Lucien Jones, vice-chairman of the National Road Safety Council.
December 27, 2025 by Sashana Small

NRSC wary of road fatality U-turn

With road fatalities poised to break a three-year downward trend, Dr Lucien Jones, vice chairman of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC), is urging the introduction of protocols to test the blood…
The rodent control programme will start from the clock tower on Barnett Street.
December 27, 2025

St James Health Department to launch $60m rodent, mosquito control programme

WESTERN BUREAU: Amid the ongoing restoration work in St James in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, the St James Health Department says it will be conducting an unprecedented $60-million rodent and…
Moses West, former US Army ranger and founder of AWG Contracting, who designed the atmospheric water system currently supplying drinking water to the Accompong Maroon community.
December 27, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

Standing firm amid fury

Western Bureau: As Hurricane Melissa tore across Jamaica on October 28, crippling power grids and shutting down water supply systems mainly in the western region, one machine high in the Cockpit…
Hugh Grant, president and CEO of JPS.
December 27, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

JPS lights up Treasure Beach

WESTERN BUREAU: A large Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Emergency Mobile Power Generation Unit now supplying electricity to Treasure Beach and surrounding communities was officially launched on…
Jason Henzell
December 27, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

Hotelier praises JPS as Treasure Beach regains electricity

WESTERN BUREAU Treasure Beach hotelier Jason Henzell has welcomed the deployment of the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) Emergency Mobile Power Generation Unit, describing the response as…
A JN Foundation volunteer shows off some of the items inside the thrift shop established on the football field of the William Knibb Memorial High School last Sunday. The shop was one of the highlights of an event organised and hosted by FYI Consultancy Gro
December 27, 2025

Santa, stoves and second chances in Trelawny

It was not yet Christmas Eve, but it seemed like Grand Market came just a few days early for residents of Trelawny. From Martha Brae, Hague Settlement, Falmouth, and as far as Sherwood Content, they…
VM Group Chairman Michael McMorris (centre) cuts the ribbon to officially hand over a new two-bedroom home to Novia Russell (right) and her children (second to fourth right) Javon, Danique and Zaliyah. Also present are (from left) Kivette Silvera, executiv
December 27, 2025

VM, Food For The Poor deliver new home to St Bess family

A family in Myersville, St Elizabeth, has received a new two-bedroom home for the holidays, after Hurricane Melissa, through a partnership between VM Group and Food For The Poor. The home was…