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The Bogue Heights heroes gleefully displaying their certificates of appreciation.
Published 15 hours ago by Adrian Frater

Bogue Heights honours its Hurricane Melissa heroes

Western Bureau: After Hurricane Melissa, with all the fury of its 195-mile-per-hour winds, many Jamaicans emerged as heroes in numerous communities, especially in western Jamaica, risking their…
Robert Taylor, director of probation and aftercare.
Published 15 hours ago by Albert Ferguson

More than 2,000 non-custodial offenders being supervised in communities islandwide

WESTERN BUREAU: Robert Taylor, director of probation and aftercare, says Jamaica’s probation service is currently supervising more than 2,000 non-custodial offenders across the island. Taylor made…
State Minister in the ministry of National Security and Peace, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn (right), is being assisted by Chief Technical Director in the ministry, Shauna Trowers, with threading a sewing machine in the new sewing lab at the South Camp Juvenile Co
Published 15 hours ago

Sewing Lab opens at South Camp Juvenile Centre

The South Camp Juvenile Correctional and Remand Centre now boasts a sewing laboratory, which will equip incarcerated girls and young women with a marketable skill to support themselves and their…
Representatives from Guardian Life Limited, along with the clinical and leadership team at Bustamante Hospital for Children, view the full set of newly delivered medical equipment on March 9 in the Conference Room at the Accident and Emergency Building. Th
Published 15 hours ago

Corporate Hands | Guardian Life Life SHINE 5K provides equipment to Bustamante Hospital

Students from St Thomas Technical High School engage with newly launched NEPA educational games during the National School Environmental Club Programme Workshop, guided by Senior Public Education and Community Outreach Officer, Ava Tomlinson.
Published 15 hours ago

NEPA rolls out new education tools at student workshop

More than 80 students and teachers from six high schools across Portland and St Thomas recently participated in a National Schools Environment Club Programme (NSECP) capacity-building workshop hosted…
Outreach officer at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory in St Ann, Jason Grant, engages students of Waltham Abbey Primary and Infant School and Discovery Bay Primary and Infant School in an interactive showcase of the ne
Published 15 hours ago

UWI Discovery Bay Lab launches marine attraction

A new interactive attraction at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory in St Ann is giving children and visitors a rare chance to experience the wonders of the ocean…
Steam rises from PT Vale Indonesia’s nickel processing plant in Sorowako, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Demand for critical minerals like nickel and cobalt is surging as climate change hastens a transition to renewable energy, boost
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Earth Today | ‘Zero waste starts on your plate’

THIS YEAR’S celebration of International Day of Zero Waste is taking aim at food waste, which generates a reported eight to 10 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate change…
EFJ boss, Nicole Adamson (seated left) and JPS Foundation Head, Sophia Lewis (seated right) sign the MOU while Joni Jackson (left), project manager for the J-USE project, and Audrey Williams, media and public relations manager at JPS, witness the signing.
Published 15 hours ago

Earth Today | EFJ, JPS Foundation partner to empower youth climate innovation

A NEW partnership between the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) and the JPS Foundation is set to ignite youth-driven innovation and strengthen climate resilience across the island. The two…
CBF board and team members plant mangrove seedlings in The Bahamas.
Published 15 hours ago

Earth Today | Let the mangroves work

THEIR SHARP, briny smell hits you first and then you spot them: trees with roots arching out of the mud as though bracing for something. They are mangroves, one of the most powerful natural defences…