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Petersfield High School security guard Joan Forbes Scarlett is unsure how her children’s back-to-school expenses will eb met for them to start school next week. Having lost their home to Hurricane Melissa, her family now lives in an unfinished abandoned
Updated 16 hours ago by Kimone Francis

‘Mi nuh have it’

For a year, her voice has been the steady authority at the gates of Petersfield High School in Westmoreland, shouldering the job of keeping hundreds of students safe behind the institution’s walls.…
Accustomed to portraying formidable women, Nadean Rawlins admits there is a price attached to being perceived as one.
August 30, 2026 by Janet Silvera

Possessed by her purpose - After years of opening doors for other J’can actors, Nadean Rawlins steps through one, landing biggest role of her career

WESTERN BUREAU: For years, Nadean Rawlins has been opening doors for other people. As producer, director, talent manager, and head of RAW Management, she has pushed Jamaican actors towards auditions,…
A roofless section of the Baxter’s Mountain Primary School in St Mary.
August 30, 2026 by Corey Robinson

Back to school against the odds - Rural St Mary students face tough return amid flooding threat, outstanding repairs and parents struggling with costs

Daily schooling in the deep rural communities of Baxter’s Mountain and Pleasant Hill in St Mary involves more than books, pencils, uniforms and school supplies. It also requires the will to battle the…
The Bank of Jamaica.
August 30, 2026

Editorial | Bond market sent a warning

In the midst of the changing of the guard at the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) and the reports on the performance of the local economy, something important happened recently in Jamaica’s bond market. The…
Students and staff at Aberdeen High School in Aberdeen, St Elizabeth, advance reconstruction of the institution’s tuck shop, which was decimated by Hurricane Melissa.
August 30, 2026

Christopher Burgess | Reconstruction accountability: Public participation and the press

In around eight weeks, it will be a year since Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica, and the public still does not have a clear picture of the reconstruction programme. We’re also four months into the 2026…
Orville Taylor
August 30, 2026

Orville Taylor | Jason Arday was you and we

Dead at age 41, a phenomenon, an enigma, a story of defying odds, breaking moulds and making history, Jason Arday had done, in his four decades of life, far more than the majority of academics have…
Garth Rattray
August 30, 2026

Garth Rattray | We need confidence in the CCJ

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has been in the news lately but not for the right reasons. The regional court was many decades in the making but has yet to realise its full potential.
Music producer and music video director Dameon Gayle told ‘The Sunday Gleaner’: “What dawned on me going through the situation is that if I don’t take care of stuff now, who is going to take care of it when I am gone.”
August 30, 2026 by Omar Tomlinson

Producer and director Dameon Gayle making documentary about experiences in the music business

Having learnt various lessons in the music industry, Dameon Gayle wants to give a voice to colleagues facing challenges. The music producer and recording artiste, who is currently disputing the…
A policeman with a sniffer dog looks at the damage in the aftermath of flash floods in Devighat in the Nuwakot district in Nepal last Thursday.
August 30, 2026

Rescuers retrieve Nepal flood survivors caked in mud

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP): Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety, as Nepal and China raced to respond to catastrophic flash floods that…