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Uncollected garbage overflows onto the streets in Cave Valley, St Ann, earlier this year.
March 9, 2026

NSWMA to tackle garbage backlog

Minister of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie says the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is working to clear a backlog of garbage across the country,…
Quadisha Lee, patient care assistant, speaks wth Dempson.
March 8, 2026 by Corey Robinson

Left behind: Inside Bellevue’s ward for Jamaica’s forgotten patients

James Harvey*, 54, still moves as though he is standing behind a towering sound system. Sometimes he rocks from side to side, blurting intros to dancehall hits as if the speakers are still thumping…
Dr Rushell White making a presentation as superintendent in the New York City Department of Education.
March 8, 2026 by Lester Hinds

‘When women thrive, we all rise’

Today, for International Women’s Day and through the 2026 theme ‘Give To Gain’, the world is being encouraged to take on a mindset of generosity and collaboration, recognising that when people,…
Dean Williams, also known as ‘Sam’.
March 8, 2026 by Olivia Brown

Woman tried to stop partner from leaving home before confrontation with cops left him, two others dead

The spouse of one of the three men killed during an alleged confrontation with police in Comfort district, Clarendon, on Friday is challenging the official account of the deadly encounter. The…
Shanoya Douglas
March 9, 2026 by Gregory Bryce

Flair | 10 athletes to watch at Girls’ Champs

The annual five-day track and field carnival that is the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) is once again on the horizon, and here is our list of the top 10 female…
Family members and friends of Melissa Silvera leave the Supreme Court after the sentencing of Jolyan Silvera at the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston yesterday.
March 7, 2026 by Tanesha Mundle

‘Justice was done’

The family of Melissa Silvera say they are not pleased with the possibility that her widower, former Member of Parliament (MP) Jolyan Silvera, could be eligible for parole after being sentenced to…
In this 2020 photo doctors form up during a farewell ceremony as they get ready to leave for Italy to help with the new coronavirus pandemic, in Havana, Cuba.
March 7, 2026 by Erica Virtue

Cuban foreign ministry: Jamaica’s decision to end medical programme ‘disregarded’ history of fruitful, sustained collaboration

Expressing deep regret over the termination of its near 50-year-old bilateral medical brigade programme with Jamaica, Cuba in a statement yesterday reaffirmed its commitment to the Jamaican people…
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes.
March 7, 2026 by Tanesha Mundle

Sykes: Silvera made ‘strategic’ guilty plea

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes said former Member of Parliament Jolyan Silvera’s guilty plea to manslaughter came only after careful consideration of forensic evidence, describing it as “more strategic…
Dr Jason McKay, criminologist and security expert.
March 7, 2026 by Ainsley Walters

The smoking bullet

Criminologist and forensic-reconstruction expert, Dr Jason McKay, has stated that Jamaica needs to be thankful, proud and supportive of the various state agencies’ collective roles that led to former…