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Trade unionist Senator Lambert Brown.
06 Oct, 2026 0

Doctors’ pay fight ends in major win

Following the Industrial Disputes Tribunal’s landmark ruling in favour of doctors in their long-running allowances dispute with the State, senior trade unionist Lambert Brown says the medical…
Panellists take part in a Jamaica Teaching Council fireside chat, hosted in observance of World Teachers’ Day yesterday.  The event examined how Jamaica prepares, supports, develops, trusts and values teachers, and explored necessary changes as education
06 Oct, 2026 0

Calls for more training, better support for teachers

A call is being made for greater investment in teacher training institutions, with Dr Ashburn Pinnock, president of The Mico University College, arguing that while teacher preparation is evolving, it…
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06 Oct, 2026 0

Reid trial rolls on despite lawyers’ absence

A judge on Monday did not allow the absence of defence attorney Hugh Wildman to delay the resumption of the oft-delayed fraud trial involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid. Wildman is the…
Taneka Gardner, who was killed during a religious ritual at a Montego Bay church in October 2021.
06 Oct, 2026 0

Confession under scrutiny in Pathways trial

The evidentiary phase of the Pathways murder trial is currently on pause as Justice Leighton Pusey considers whether to admit a caution statement containing a reported confession by accused Andre…
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett.
06 Oct, 2026 0

Bartlett wants ALEX to become a regional platform

WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett want Jamaica’s Agricultural Linkages Exchange (ALEX) to be expanded into a Caribbean-wide platform as part of a broader push to build a regional…
Author Alton Allen, former Jamaica College Manning Cup footballer.
06 Oct, 2026 0

Former JC footballer pens novels to give Denham Town a voice

Former Jamaica College (JC) Manning Cup footballer Alton Allen has travelled a long way from the streets of Denham Town where he grew up, but nearly three decades after leaving Jamaica for the United…
Hanover Eastern Member of Parliament Andrea Purkiss.
06 Oct, 2026 0

Purkiss confronts SPARK work crew

WESTERN BUREAU: Just days after lamenting in Parliament about the unsatisfactory state of the roadwork being done in her constituency under the SPARK programme, Hanover Eastern Member of Parliament…
St Catherine South Western Member of Parliament Everald Warmington.
05 Oct, 2026 0

‘UNINFORMED’ - Global Afrikan Congress rebukes Warmington over slave trade remarks, urges him to do research and apologise

The Global Afrikan Congress (GAC) is demanding an apology from parliamentarian Everald Warmington for his “uninformed assertions” that Black Africans who sold people into the transatlantic slave…
JUTA President Simon Lawrence.
05 Oct, 2026 0

Representation row hits tourism transport sector

WESTERN BUREAU: A representation dispute has erupted in Jamaica’s tourism ground transportation sector, with the more than 2,000-member JUTA Montego Bay declaring that a government-recognised umbrella…