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December 28, 2025

Dwight Fletcher | How do I build resiliency?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I pray that you will experience the true hope of God in this holiday season. As we look towards 2026, it’s clear that we all need greater resilience. Wherever you…
Rev Gabriel Agbo
December 28, 2025

Gabriel Agbo | What shall we do?

“... Ah, my lord, what will we do now?’ he cried out to Elisha. ‘Don’t be afraid!’ Elisha told him. ‘For there are more on our side than on theirs!’ ‘O LORD, open his eyes and let him see!” 2 Kings 6:…
December 28, 2025

Yaakov Raskin | When life takes an unexpected turn: finding strength through divine providence

After Hurricane Melissa, many people’s realities got flipped 180 degrees. Familiar locations and routines were disrupted overnight. Not only were homes damaged, but work was halted, and families,…

Archbishop Kenneth Richards
December 28, 2025 by Most Rev Kenneth D. Richards

Decriminalising sexual activity among minors

The public debate on decriminalising consensual sexual activity among minors raises serious moral, pastoral, and legal concerns. The Church welcomes sincere efforts to protect children from…

Pieces of the rubble from the St John’s Anglican Church that was destroyed on October 28 by Hurricane Melissa.
December 28, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

Of St John’s Anglican Church and Allison Morris Part IV – Picking up the pieces

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa left Jamaica before nightfall, leaving people in the path on which she swirled violently in utter disbelief over the great extent of the destruction she had created. In…
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…