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Guyana President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali (right) accepts a gift from new Chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organization, Antigua and Barbuda’s Minister of Tourism, Charles Fernandez, while Secretary General and CEO of the CTO, Dona Regis-Prosper shares in
08 Oct, 2026 0

Ali warns Caribbean to scale up or risk being left behind

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Guyana’s President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali has warned Caribbean tourism leaders to “scale up” or risk being left behind as destinations in the Middle East and Latin America pour…
Heroy Clarke
08 Oct, 2026 0

MPs raise doubts over trucked water

At least two members of parliament (MPs) on Tuesday suggested that some consumers are receiving water from trucks that is not sourced from potable National Water Commission (NWC) supplies. The current…
Annique Dawkins (right), head of country at CIBC Caribbean, presents a symbolic transfer of $11 million to Roshane Reid-Koomson, executive director of theJamaica Cancer Society. The sum was the proceeds of the bank’s 2025 Walk For The Cure 5k Walk and Ru
08 Oct, 2026 0

Walk for the Cure returns amid mammography crisis

Jamaicans are being urged to turn cancer awareness into action by participating in the 15th staging of CIBC Caribbean’s Walk for the Cure at Hope Botanical Gardens on Sunday. The event, being held in…
Fritz Pinnock
08 Oct, 2026 0

Judge: No more delays in CMU trial

Former Caribbean Maritime University President, Professor Fritz Pinnock, was yesterday told that he will have to conduct his own cross-examination of witnesses if his attorney, Hugh Wildman, remains…
The badly damaged vehicle it which the JTA president-elect was travelling at the scene of the crash in Trelawny.
08 Oct, 2026 0

JTA president-elect recuperating after Trelawny crash

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) is reporting that its president-elect, Dr Maureen Mullings-Nelson, and a senior teacher with whom she was travelling are now recuperating…
Women of RCTNH (from left) Dr Tiffany Hunter, Club President- Franchesca Francis, Thriecia Tyndale, Past President- Dr Suzanne McDonald Fowles, Immediate Past President- Debra-Ann Matthews, and Past President and coordinator of the tea party dubbed ‘An A
08 Oct, 2026 0

Tea for transformation - Rotary Club pumps proceeds from tea party into community projects

The Rotary Club of Trafalgar New Heights has turned proceeds from an elegant afternoon of tea and fellowship held earlier this year into support for healthcare and education. The Kingston-based club…
The former Air Jamaica plane bombed in March seen here at London Heathrow in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2005.
07 Oct, 2026 0

Former Air J plane bombed in Iran - Pilot recalls good times flying ‘Mike Papa’ from Jamaica to UK, wants reintroduction of national airline

When the Israeli Air Force reported the destruction of Iran’s presidential VIP Airbus A340-300 often dubbed ‘Iran Force One’ during a military strike in Iran in March of this year, the repercussions…
In this file photo, residents of Bundy Lane in St Andrew play in water from a burst underground National Water Commission pipe.
07 Oct, 2026 0

PAC questions NWC’s financial viability

Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has disclosed that as at March 2026, total receivables of the National Water Commission (NWC) is $23.88 billion. However, eyebrows were raised when it was…
Dr Andrew Wheatley.
07 Oct, 2026 0

Court delays first hearing of Wheatley’s challenge to IC prosecution

The first hearing of Cabinet Minister Dr Andrew Wheatley’s challenge against the Integrity Commission’s (IC) decision to prosecute him for alleged illicit enrichment and other corruption-related…