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Members of the JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation team (seated) with scholarship recipients at the recently held scholarship awards ceremony at Terra Nova All Suites Hotel.
21 Sep, 2026 0

JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation awards $17.5 million in scholarships and bursaries

The JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation presented scholarships and bursaries at the foundation’s annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony, held recently at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel. This year’s scholarship…
21 Sep, 2026 0

Brain activity can predict risky decisions before they happen: Study

SAN FRANCISCO (ANI): Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and the University of California, Berkeley, have identified two neighbouring regions in the human brain that…
Taxi driver Peter Dawson stands helplessly by his vehicle at a flooded section of Orange Street in Montego Bay, St James, in November 2021. He was eventually assisted by firefighters.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Flood-hit MoBay gets $56m for early-warning tech

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay has secured US$350,000 (J$56 million) in international funding to install flood-detection and early-warning technology, a timely intervention for the western city where…
Dr Paul Blake, president of the PNP Patriots.
21 Sep, 2026 0

‘Too many forced to make difficult choices to survive’

People’s National Party (PNP) Deputy General Secretary Dr Paul Blake has painted a grim picture of the hardships facing Jamaicans, pointing to rising food insecurity, youth unemployment, and families…
Dr Angela Brown Burke, chairman of the People’s National Party.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Gov’t failing to adequately address hardships, says Brown Burke

People’s National Party (PNP) Chairman Dr Angela Brown Burke has accused the Government of failing to adequately address the hardships facing Jamaicans. Brown Burke, who was addressing the public…
Damion Crawford, opposition spokesman on education.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Damion laments poverty, hunger, erosion of values

St Catherine North Western Member of Parliament Damion Crawford says Jamaica has become a “strange land” where poverty, hunger, violence and the erosion of community values are increasingly being…
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Infrastructure Development with responsibility for Land Titling and Settlements, Robert Montague (right, foreground), greets residents while touring sections of the Coopers Pen community in
21 Sep, 2026 0

Displaced Coopers Pen families receive relocation grants

Families displaced by last month’s demolition of homes at Coopers Pen in Trelawny have been provided with relocation grants by the Government, coinciding with the planned departure of the first group…
21 Sep, 2026 0

Jamaica to get direct flights to Mexico

Jamaica is poised for the first time to get direct flights to Mexico. Jamaicans do not need a visa to visit Mexico. Aeroméxico, Mexico's flag carrier and one of Latin America's best-known…
Commissioner of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), Hugh Faulkner.
21 Sep, 2026 0

INDECOM undertaking review of handling of Seaford Town fatal police shooting scene

Commissioner of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Hugh Faulkner says a review has been ordered to determine whether any internal lapse of duty occurred by its investigators who…