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Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon.
December 9, 2025 by Christopher Thomas

Permits required to rear animals within MoBay’s city limits, says mayor

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon has indicated that residents may rear animals within the city’s limits but they must do so in a way that does not disrupt their communities and only…
Michelle Williams, VP Records’ regional director of Caribbean and Latin America, and Professor Densil Williams, principal of the UWI, Mona campus, at the launch of the VP Foundation ECEM Scholarship.
December 9, 2025

VP Foundation and UWI launch ECEM Scholarship

On Tuesday, the Vincent and Patricia VP Foundation, in partnership with the Institute of Caribbean Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies, Mona, officially…
Senior Superintendent Eron Samuels, police commander for St James.
December 9, 2025 by Adrian Frater

Crime down to a trickle

Western Bureau: With 55 fewer murders than the corresponding period last year, Senior Superintendent Eron Samuels, the police commander for St James, drew appreciative laughter at Thursday’s monthly…
Archibald Monteath’s grave at Carmel Moravian Church in Westmoreland.
December 9, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

Captured, and arrived in Jamaica

TWO SUNDAYS ago, we conclude Part I with: “The distinction of his funeral was conveyed not only by the attendance of white landowners, who turned up at the funerals of black elites, such as…
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December 9, 2025 by Christopher Thomas

WRHA blames miscommunication for issue with pharmacy interns, says matter settled

WESTERN BUREAU: St Andrade Sinclair, the regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), says poor communication was responsible for last Thursday’s outcry by pharmacy interns, who…
Winnie Harlow dons an off-the-shoulder SRVC jumpsuit with a statement curly ‘fro.
December 9, 2025

Something Extra | Saturday

The Kering Foundation’s Caring for Women dinner took centrestage on Thursday, during New York Fashion Week. Stars including Dakota Johnson; Anna Wintour; Chloe Malle, Vogue US’s new head of editorial…
Jamaica Music Museum Director/Curator Herbie Miller addressing patrons, including Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange, at the opening of the exhibition, ‘From African to Jamaican: Music and Creolized Black Culture’, insid
December 9, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

African to Jamaican: Music and Creolized Black Culture exhibition officially opened

SINCE FEBRUARY, the Jamaica Music Museum (JaMM) has been giving access to the public to its exhibition, ‘African to Jamaican: Music and Creolized Black Culture’, in its main gallery situated inside…
Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels
December 9, 2025 by Bryan Miller

Sister city partnership forged between Negril and Zanzibar City in Tanzania

Western Bureau: Everything is now in place for the formalisation of the twinning of the resort town of Negril, in western Jamaica, and Zanzibar City, in the United Republic of Tanzania through a…
Access Financial Services Founder and Executive Director Marcus James (left) presents the inaugural AFS Marcus James Scholarship for Entrepreneurship cheque to recipient Alfred Fuller, a first-year University of Technology, Jamaica, student, who is pursuin
December 9, 2025

GoodHeart | From selling sweets to higher purpose and education

At just 19 years old, Alfred Fuller has already lived a life characterised by sheer grit, resilience and vision, proving on Wednesday that perseverance can turn struggle into opportunity. The…