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December 9, 2025
NWC staff receive leak detection training from UTech
Twenty employees at the National Water Commission (NWC) are now enrolled at the University of Technology Jamaica (UTech), where they are completing a course in Leak Detection Technologies. The…
December 9, 2025
Jamaica joins regional effort to support women in climate projects
Jamaica is among eight Caribbean countries to join a Gender Smart Facility led by the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) and Global Affairs Canada to transform how climate finance reaches women and…
December 9, 2025
Corporate Hands | AmCham, Baptist Health strengthen US-Jamaica links
Recognised among the leading healthcare systems in the United States, Baptist Health South Florida, through Baptist Health International, joined forces with the American Chamber of Commerce of Jamaica…
December 9, 2025
Gabriel Agbo | No cross, no crown
“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, in as much as you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings;…
December 9, 2025
by Dr Kumar Mahabir and Shalima Mohammed
Matchmaking and marriage services: Do Indians in the diaspora need them?
ACCORDING TO Rao Prakasa (1982), the traditional arranged Indian marriage matchmaker is called anag-waa, or nayan. The matchmaker is normally a family friend or distant relative, or maulvi, imam or…
December 9, 2025
Dwight Fletcher | Why should I care that Jesus is alive?
LAST WEEK, we kicked off a new series on knowing the truth about Jesus. We live in a world that constantly tries to convince us that faith is for the non-thinkers who just want something to believe…
December 9, 2025
by Christopher Thomas
Trauma overload
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Delroy Fray, the clinical coordinator at the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), is raising concern about the alarming number of victims of motor vehicle accidents who were…
December 9, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
Fake jobs, bogus invoices
A domestic helper unknowingly employed by the Ministry of Education is among the key allegations in the $25-million fraud case involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid and former Caribbean…
December 9, 2025
by Edmond Campbell
No meeting of minds on committees stalemate
Karl Samuda, who was the leader of government business when then PM Bruce Golding handed the chairmanship of parliamentary oversight committees to the Opposition, has suggested that the experiment did…