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Left to right: Paul Issa, owner of Couples Resorts; Eric Clarke, chairman of the Western Regional Health Authority; Hazelyn Forrester, director of nursing services; Roan Grant, chief executive officer of Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital; and Dr Suman
May 1, 2026 by Mickalia Kington

Sav Hospital receives $17m donation to boost healthcare delivery

Western Bureau: A significant boost to healthcare delivery in western Jamaica is in prospect, as the Issa Trust Foundation has facilitated a donation of medical equipment and supplies valued at…
FLOW Vice-President Stephen Price.
May 1, 2026 by Albert Ferguson

FLOW’s Price backs NaRRA push to cut telecoms rollout delays

WESTERN BUREAU: Stephen Price, vice-president and general manager of FLOW Jamaica, is endorsing the proposed establishment of the National Regulatory Reform Authority (NaRRA), arguing that Jamaica…
Christopher Okello Onyum, a man accused of killing four children, appears in court at the Ggaba Community Church grounds in Kampala, Uganda, Monday, April 13, 2026.
April 30, 2026

Judge sentences Ugandan man to death following speedy trial for killing four children

WAKISO, Uganda (AP) — A judge on Thursday sentenced a Ugandan man to death after rejecting his insanity plea in the killings of four children in a nursery school earlier this month. A crowd watching…
This image made from New York Police Department body camera video shows an officer after an explosion at a house while responding to a call of an armed man Thursday, April 30, 2026, in the Queens borough of New York.
April 30, 2026

Massive explosion at NYC home sends police officers flying

NEW YORK (AP) — A massive, fiery explosion at a house in Queens sent several New York City police officers flying through the air early Thursday morning as they were responding to a call of a man…
Ministry of Finance. - File photo.
April 30, 2026

Government to resume annual performance-based salary increments for public sector workers

Public sector employees are set to earn more, as the Government is to resume annual performance-based salary increments for workers. The Ministry of Finance, in a media release on Thursday,…
Jamaica Labour Party Communication Chairman, Senator Abka Fitz-Henley. - File photo.
April 30, 2026

Brown-Burke’s acceptance of wrongdoing in Parliament incomplete; apology required, says JLP

The ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is maintaining that South West St Andrew Member of Parliament, Dr Angela Brown-Burke, has not gone far enough in taking responsibility for her conduct in…
Divers at the scene where the body of a man who found floating in the Rio Cobre in a section of Spanish Town, St Catherine on April 30.
April 30, 2026

Decomposing body of man found in Rio Cobre

Detectives assigned to the St Catherine North Police Division are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in the Rio Cobre in Spanish Town, St Catherine on Thursday. The police report…
April 30, 2026

Former St Catherine call centre employee pleads guilty to using co-worker’s bank card, gets probation

A former employee at a St Catherine call centre who pleaded guilty to using a co-worker’s bank card to make online purchases was today given two years’ probation in the circuit court. Le Andrew…
Britney Spears arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," on July 22, 2019. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
April 30, 2026

Britney Spears charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears was charged in California on Thursday with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, authorities said. The 44-year-old pop star was charged with a single…