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Kevin Coke, electrical technology teacher and founder of the Montego Bay-based GENR8 3D Limited.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Teacher opens STEM lab to support damaged western schools

WESTERN BUREAU: With some schools still repairing hurricane-damaged laboratories, electrical technology teacher Kevin Coke has made his STEM laboratory available to students in western Jamaica to…
From left: St James Ministers Fraternal members Reverends Howard Nelson, treasurer; Godfrey Francis, secretary; Glendon Powell, chairman; and Rehamah Forrester, vice-chairman, at a press conference at Burchell Baptist Church in Montego Bay on Wednesday.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Church leaders welcome plans for burn unit at CRH

WESTERN BUREAU: Reverend Glendon Powell, head of the St James Ministers Fraternal, is hailing the development of a burn unit at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay as a major step…
Recipients of WINDALCO’s 2021 International Scholarship who returned to Jamaica in August after completing engineering degrees at the Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk Russia.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Eighteen Jamaican students return from Russia with engineering degrees

Eighteen Jamaican students are now back in Jamaica after completing engineering degrees at the Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The students were awarded fully funded scholarships…
Members of the JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation team (seated) with scholarship recipients at the recently held scholarship awards ceremony at Terra Nova All Suites Hotel.
21 Sep, 2026 0

JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation awards $17.5 million in scholarships and bursaries

The JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation presented scholarships and bursaries at the foundation’s annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony, held recently at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel. This year’s scholarship…
21 Sep, 2026 0

Brain activity can predict risky decisions before they happen: Study

SAN FRANCISCO (ANI): Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and the University of California, Berkeley, have identified two neighbouring regions in the human brain that…
Taxi driver Peter Dawson stands helplessly by his vehicle at a flooded section of Orange Street in Montego Bay, St James, in November 2021. He was eventually assisted by firefighters.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Flood-hit MoBay gets $56m for early-warning tech

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay has secured US$350,000 (J$56 million) in international funding to install flood-detection and early-warning technology, a timely intervention for the western city where…
Dr Paul Blake, president of the PNP Patriots.
21 Sep, 2026 0

‘Too many forced to make difficult choices to survive’

People’s National Party (PNP) Deputy General Secretary Dr Paul Blake has painted a grim picture of the hardships facing Jamaicans, pointing to rising food insecurity, youth unemployment, and families…
Dr Angela Brown Burke, chairman of the People’s National Party.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Gov’t failing to adequately address hardships, says Brown Burke

People’s National Party (PNP) Chairman Dr Angela Brown Burke has accused the Government of failing to adequately address the hardships facing Jamaicans. Brown Burke, who was addressing the public…
Damion Crawford, opposition spokesman on education.
21 Sep, 2026 0

Damion laments poverty, hunger, erosion of values

St Catherine North Western Member of Parliament Damion Crawford says Jamaica has become a “strange land” where poverty, hunger, violence and the erosion of community values are increasingly being…