Lead Stories

The Hanover Municipal Corporation building in Lucea.
February 20, 2026 by Bryan Miller

Hanover’s municipal building crumbling, stakeholders concerned

WESTERN BUREAU: Amid mounting complaints from staff and councillors that the aging Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) administrative building is deteriorating around them, calls are growing for…
Chensie Allen (centre) accepting a symbolic cheque valued at $500,000 from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security’s ROOFS Programme. Presenting the cheque were Dwayne Vaz, member of parliament for Westmoreland Central (left), and Pearnell Charles Jr,
February 20, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Tailor among 4,700 W’land residents receiving $787m in ROOFS grants

WESTERN BUREAU: Seventy-three-year-old tailor Chensie Allen of Hudson Street in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, says the $500,000 he received under the Government’s ROOFS programme could not have come…
February 20, 2026 by Tanesha Mundle

Witness tells court ‘Zugi’ was chased, shot on Roger Avenue

A man yesterday gave chilling testimony in the Home Circuit Court about how George ‘Zugi’ Richards was chased down and shot repeatedly as he lay face down on Roger Avenue in Spanish Town, St…
February 19, 2026 by Livern Barrett

Mediation muddle

At the completion of a court-ordered mediation in May last year, a judge at the Trelawny Parish Court dismissed four criminal charges laid against a businessman by two policemen who claimed he…
Dr Donovan Stanberry, Mona Campus registrar.
February 19, 2026 by Kimone Francis

UWI doors open to med students in Cuba

The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, says there has been no official communication or request to accept anxious Jamaican medical students in Cuba, but it has indicated that it can…
Pastor Glen Samuels.
February 19, 2026

Samuels is new president of Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica

Pastor Glen Samuels was on Tuesday elected president of the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists during its Third Quinquennial Session, held at the Mandeville Seventh-day Adventist…
Hurricane damage at Jamaica Zoo.
February 19, 2026 by Karen Madden

Comeback trail

With Jamaica’s tourism products experiencing appreciable rebound following the displacements brought about by Hurricane Melissa last October, privately owned attractions are also fighting to get back…
The 700-square-foot steel-frame model house in Savanna-la-Mar that stood standing after Hurricane Melissa.
February 19, 2026 by Mickalia Kington

Framing the future

A steel frame house left standing in Savanna-la-Mar after Hurricane Melissa tore through sections of western Jamaica has started a conversation about how the country should rebuild and whether it is…
Paul Thorbourne (left) and Cynthia Burton (right), former trustees of the Mavis Fraser-Davis Trust, present a cheque for $1.3 million to Hermina Reid of the Bethlehem Moravian Church in Malvern, St Elizabeth, on February 1.
February 19, 2026 by Christopher Thomas

Malvern churches get $2.6m donation from late educator’s trust

WESTERN BUREAU: St Elizabeth-based churches, the St Albans Anglican Church and the Bethlehem Moravian Church, are the joint beneficiaries of a J$2.6-million donation from the now-defunct Mavis…