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Staff members at Bickersteth Primary and Infant School in St James survey the damage done to a section of the premises, following a break-in at the institution on Wednesday night.
18 Sep, 2026 0

Thieves hit six primary schools in St James, Hanover since August

WESTERN BUREAU: Thieves have broken into six primary schools within the Ministry of Education’s Region 4 jurisdiction since late August, with Bickersteth Primary and Infant School in St James…
Ras Iyah V (left), of the Westmoreland Ganja Farmers Association, and Stephen Reviere, a member of the Hanover Herb Farmers’ Cooperative, have been advocating for many years for small farmers to drafted in the formal ganja sector.
18 Sep, 2026 0

‘It’s like Christmas’

WESTERN BUREAU: For generations, ganja has been more than a crop in communities such as Brighton and Orange Hill in Westmoreland. It has been a source of income, a way to pay bills and, for some…
Kenneth Samuels, a 105-year-old resident of Bogue Heights, Montego Bay, St James, at home with his daughter Jacqueline Dawn Samuels-Plummer. The elder Samuels celebrated his milestone birthday on September 11, 2026.
18 Sep, 2026 0

Kenneth Samuels thanks God for life at 105

WESTERN BUREAU: Retired pastor Kenneth George Samuels counts it a blessing to have lived to see his 105th birthday, which he celebrated with his relatives and other loved ones at his Bogue Heights…
Johnson Smith
17 Sep, 2026 0

TCN U-TURN

A decision by Jamaica and the United States to withhold the full details of the controversial third-country nationals (TCN) agreement has been described as “odd” by former diplomat Byron Blake, who…
Ethnie Miller Simpson.
17 Sep, 2026 0

Miller Simpson warns about data drain as J’cans feed foreign AI services

WESTERN BUREAU: Educator Ethnie Miller Simpson is expressing concern that while Jamaica is pumping information into artificial-intelligence (AI) systems at an accelerating rate, the country does not…
Linvern Wright, principal of the William Knibb Memorial High School in Trelawny.
17 Sep, 2026 0

$100K mobile phones but no textbooks

WESTERN BUREAU: A senior school administrator is challenging parents to rethink their priorities as the new school year gets under way, noting that some are spending heavily on their children’s…
From left: Monsignor Eremodo Muavesi, rector of the Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Montego Bay, St James, formally blesses Mount Alvernia High School’s new solar-power system on Wednesday. Vaden Maragh, managing director of EMRIC Solutions Limited; Dawn
17 Sep, 2026 0

Mt Alvernia High gets $6.5m replacement solar-power system

WESTERN BUREAU: The Mount Alvernia High School (MAHS) in Montego Bay, St James, has received a new solar-energy system courtesy of its Central Florida International Alumni Association. The…
Some of the weapons seized by the police in the Half-Way Tree commercial hub in St Andrew since August 16.
17 Sep, 2026 0

JC student stabbed amid 700+ weapons seized in HWT in past month

More than 700 weapons have been confiscated from people in the Half-Way Tree town centre since August 16, including a few taken from schoolchildren, as the police seek to curb violence in the busy St…
MITCHELL
17 Sep, 2026 0

Businesses urged to help shape youth values

The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) is urging businesses and business leaders to play a more active role in reinforcing positive values among young Jamaicans. The PSOJ said the business…