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Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon (at podium), addresses the ministry's Region Three Back-To-School Leadership Summit for Principals and School Board Chairs at Ocean Coral Spring Resort in Coral Spring, Trel
August 19, 2026

Education ministry eyeing new schools to meet Region Three demand

Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon, says available data indicate that the Region Three Educational Division requires additional schools, as changing…
August 19, 2026

Police officer’s vehicle stolen in Portmore

Police personnel in the St Catherine South division have launched a search for the person or persons who stole a police officer’s vehicle in Portmore between Monday and Tuesday. Reports are that…
Crows feasting on the remains of cattle left by thieves after slaughtering the animals in the bushes.
August 19, 2026 by Ruddy Mathison

Butchered in the bushes - Cattle farmers tremble over thieves’ midnight meat runs

Cattle farmers in Colbeck, St Catherine, are living in fear as thieves repeatedly enter the community under the cover of darkness, steal their animals and slaughter them in nearby bushes in what the…
Dr Wayne Henry, director general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica.
August 19, 2026

PIOJ cuts recovery timeline as economy contracts 2.9 per cent in June quarter

Jamaica’s economy contracted 2.9 per cent in the April to June quarter, but the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has shortened its projected recovery timeline to two years, from three. “Given the…
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August 19, 2026 by Livern Barrett

Doctor pleads guilty in $600m fraud case

An upper St Andrew medical doctor has pleaded guilty to her involvement in an elaborate mortgage loan and real estate scheme used to defraud several Jamaican banks of approximately $600 million, court…
El-Nathan Pitkin shares a moment with Chronixx, co-founder and conceptualiser of the JamCoders programme.
August 19, 2026 by Keisha Hill

More than coding - Students find confidence, purpose at JamCoders

El-Nathan Pitkin, Dayanna Jackson and Janae Haywood arrived at the 2026 JamCoders programme hoping to sharpen their technical skills. They left with something more valuable: greater confidence,…
A practitioner observes a child during an Ages and Stages Questionnaire-Jamaica (ASQ-J) screening session at the Caenwood Resource Centre in St Andrew.
August 19, 2026 by Paul H. Williams

ECC launches child development screening

Recognising that every child deserves the best possible start in life, the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) has embarked upon the National Administration of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire-Jamaica…
Delroy Chuck (second left), minister of justice and constitutional affairs, speaks with (from left) Chief Justice Bryan Sykes; Tricia Cameron-Anglin, director/ CEO of Court Administration Division; and Justice Simone Wolfe Reece, senior puisne judge of the
August 19, 2026

Chuck continues push for mediation before litigation

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck is urging Jamaicans to “mediate before they litigate”, as the Government seeks to reduce the number of disputes going before the courts and ease pressure on the justice…
From left: Enrolled Assistant Nurse Codner and Registered Nurse Dawes from the Savanna-la-mar Health Centre; Novlin Leslie Little, parish manager, Westmoreland Public Health Services; Dr Beverley Wright, regional cancer programme coordinator at the Western
August 19, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

FIT hailed as ‘game changer’ in colorectal cancer fight

WESTERN BUREAU: Cancer survivor Dr Beverley Wright, the regional cancer programme coordinator, has described the introduction of the Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) in western Jamaica as a “game…