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Cordell Howell-Huie (second left) and Deacon Dalmas Agan (second right)), administrators at the Mustard Seed Children’s Home in Moore Park, St James, jointly collect a gift basket from Janet Richards (left), chairman of the Janet Richards Foundation, and
December 24, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

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…
Vermon Taylor is pictured decorating the Christmas tree for the parish of St James.
December 24, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

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…
Wallace Sterling, Colonel of the Moore Town Maroons, Portland.
December 24, 2025 by Gareth Davis Snr

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,…
TRUE Free Vet Check at Negril Spay and Neuter Clinic with Dr Jaxson Heffes (right) and from left Debra Lightheart and Dr Heffes’s assistant Diandra Dixon.
December 24, 2025

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…
JPS Foundation Head Sophia Lewis (right) and Brown’s Town Community College Claudeth Haughton look on as Electrical Installation Level II student Rajaunie White unpacks items in his electrical toolkit donated by the foundation.
December 24, 2025

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…
Cash Officer, World Food Programme (WFP), Lorenzo Nerantzis, addressing a recent meeting of the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) in St Andrew.
December 24, 2025

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…
Head of the St Elizabeth Police Division, Superintendent Coleridge Minto, speaking at the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation’s Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on December 23, 2025 in Black River.
December 24, 2025

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…
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December 24, 2025

No Rebel Salute in Jamaica for 2026 due to impact of Hurricane Melissa

The organisers of Rebel Salute have announced that the event will not be staged in Jamaica in 2026, citing challenges brought about by Hurricane Melissa. In a statement posted on its Instagram page,…
Roadblocks mounted by residents of Boulevard in Rose Heights, St James on December 24, 2025 to protest the absence of water in the area.
December 24, 2025

Upset residents of Rose Heights, St James mount roadblocks over lack of water

Upset residents of 41 Boulevard in the community of Rose Heights, St James, blocked the main road leading into their community this morning to protest a lack of water in the area. They used trash,…