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From left: Donmayne Gyles, chief executive officer of Andrews Memorial Hospital; Erica Myers, infection control and prevention nurse at Black River Hospital; Diana Brown-Miller, chief executive officer of Black River Hospital; Jodi-Ann Porter, senior custo
February 26, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

Andrews Memorial gives Black River Hospital $9m shot in the arm

WESTERN BUREAU: Donmayne Gyles, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Andrews Memorial Hospital, has donated medical supplies and computers valued at $9 million to the Hurricane…
Stephanie Williams
February 26, 2026 by Paul H. Williams

Women In Law Foundation hosts benefit concert

On Sunday, March 8 at 5 p.m. at The Little Theatre in St Andrew, Women In Law Foundation (WILF), in conjunction with Riverside Open Bible Church and Mona Open Bible Church, and in association with…
Latoya Harris-Ghartey, executive director of the National Education Trust.
February 26, 2026

St Ann schools make strides after Hurricane Melissa

The National Education Trust (NET) has spotlighted the Bamboo Primary School and the Marcus Garvey Technical High School in St Ann as standing as ‘powerful symbols of resilience, recovery and renewed…
From left: Bishop Conrad Pitkin, custos rotulorum for St James; Reverend Davewin Thomas, president of the Jamaica Baptist Union; guest preacher, The Reverend Judith Johnson-Grant and The Reverend Merlyn Hyde Riley, General Secretary of the Jamaica Baptist
February 26, 2026

‘No dismissal, no retreat, no distance’

In an address during the closing service of the 176th General Assembly of the Jamaica Baptist Union, Reverend Judith Johnson-Grant urged the Church to not retreat from its spiritual responsibility to…
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…
Wallace
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…