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Delroy Chuck, chairman of the joint select committee reviewing the Child Diversion Act, 2018.
February 26, 2026 by Edmond Campbell

Child diversion favoured over state homes

Members of a joint select committee reviewing the Child Diversion Act, 2018 have suggested that children deemed “uncontrollable” should not be placed in state homes and institutions. Instead, the…
Members of the US Embassy team (3rd left – right), Public Affairs Attaché Mike Lavallee, Resource Coordinator, Kimberly-Joe Osborne and Resource Coordination Assistant, Monique Lindsay-Armstrong, look at a 17th-century Port Royal artefact displayed by K
February 26, 2026

National Museum Jamaica gets US funding to boost Disaster Risk and Recovery Plan

The National Museum Jamaica (NMJ), a division of the Institute of Jamaica, was awarded $9.3 million (USD$60,000) in foreign assistance through the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation…
Canada’s High Commissioner to Jamaica, Mark Berman (left), greets portfolio manager for the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Basic Needs Trust Fund, George Yearwood, during the opening ceremony for the inaugural Caribbean Civil Society Organisation (CSO)
February 26, 2026

Jamaica hosts inaugural Caribbean CSO Conference

Jamaica is hosting civil society organisation (CSO) leaders from some 12 regional countries at the inaugural Caribbean CSO Conference. The four-day event, featuring 120 participants from nations…
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February 26, 2026 by Christopher Thomas

St James Health Department to tackle ‘migrating’ waste, says Wallace

WESTERN BUREAU: Lennox Wallace, the parish manager for the St James Health Department, says discussions are now being held to address the ongoing issue of persons, including individuals from outside…
Agriculture Minister Floyd Green presenting Novelette Moore, a St James banana farmer, with her Hurricane Melissa recovery assistance cheque on February 25.
February 26, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Green: Don’t import bananas, it could cause deadly disease

WESTERN BUREAU: Agriculture Minister Floyd Green is urging Jamaicans to resist any move to import bananas during the current production shortfall, warning that doing so could expose the island to a…
February 26, 2026 by Andre Williams

Veteran detective pressed on statements, procedure in Clansman Gang trial

A 22-year veteran policeman, formerly assigned to the now disbanded Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime (CTOC) Branch, was closely cross-examined yesterday in the ongoing Clansman Gang trial, where…
Ainsworth ‘Mitchie’ Williams at Mitchie’s Record Shop, 136D Orange Street, downtown Kingston.
February 26, 2026

New beginnings for Mitchie

On the historic stretch of Orange Street – famously known as Beat Street – a new chapter in Jamaica’s reggae legacy is unfolding. Directly across from Ibo Spice, Mitchie has officially opened the…
Local residents and civil defense workers look on as a bulldozer clears the rubble of a house hit by a cross-border Pakistani army strike in the Behsud district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on February 22, 2026.
February 26, 2026

Airstrikes hit Afghanistan hours after it attacked Pakistan

(AP) — Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces early Friday, Afghanistan's government spokesman said, hours after Afghanistan launched a cross-border attack on…
February 26, 2026

Church group rebukes Chang over ‘blood money’ remark, calls for retraction

Church leaders are calling on National Security Minister Horace Chang to withdraw comments suggesting that advocacy organisations critical of police conduct are “living off blood money.” The Watchman…