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Former Education Minister Ruel Reid (left) and former Caribbean Maritime University President Professor Fritz Pinnock.
December 9, 2025

Defence pushes for dismissal of case against Reid, Pinnock and others

The multimillion-dollar fraud trial of former Education Minister Ruel Reid and others has been adjourned to Monday, as the defence seeks dismissal unless the Crown produces independent statements not…
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December 9, 2025

Market Me says IC report confirms its integrity and professionalism

Marketing and communications firm Market Me Consulting Limited says the Integrity Commission’s report on contracts it received from the Ministry of Health and Wellness affirms its…
December 9, 2025

Businessman freed of gun charges arising from road rage incident

Businessman D'Oyen Duncan was freed of gun-related charges when he appeared in the Gun Court on Tuesday. He was charged with assault at common law, using a firearm to commit a felony and…
Police investigators at the scene of a shooting in Kingston on October 7.
December 9, 2025

Updated|Two minors among six shot in Kingston, police keeping watch on area

The police are keeping a close watch on sections of Central Kingston following a shooting on Tuesday night that left six people injured. A nine-year old and a disabled teen were among those shot. …
Dr Kasan Troupe (right), permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, and Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr Dana Morris-Dixon.
December 9, 2025

UNESCO, JTC launch AI training workshops for teachers

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Office for the Caribbean, in partnership with the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) – an agency of the Ministry of Education,…
Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics Goran Johansson explains this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, at the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, on Tuesday, Oc
December 9, 2025

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Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon (centre), minister of education, skills, youth and information; Sally Porteous (left), and David Harris (centre), president and CEO of Christel House International; speaking with the student Icana Blackwood (second left) during
December 9, 2025 by Ruddy Mathison

Education minister pledges new models to transform schools

Jamaica’s education system could soon see sweeping innovations aimed at transforming how schools operate across the island, according to Education Minister Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon. Speaking on…
Cherry-Ann Boyce
December 9, 2025 by Keisha Hill

Cherry-Ann Boyce breast cancer survival story inspires other women

CHERRY-ANN BOYCE was deathly afraid when she visited the oncology clinic at the Kingston Public Hospital and saw the number of women that were diagnosed with breast cancer; herself included. Not only…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness holds the hand of a grieving woman who lost her niece along the Commodore Road in Linstead, St Catherine, on October 6, where nine persons were shot by gunmen, five fatally on October 5.
December 9, 2025 by Ruddy Mathison

‘ACT OF TERROR’

The death of four-year-old Shannon Gordon, one of five persons murdered during Sunday night’s mass shooting in St Catherine, has left her relatives and teachers shattered. During the incident in the…