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December 9, 2025
by Sashana Small
Elderly farmer pleads for help to rebuild home destroyed by heavy rains
Rudy Campbell, from Castleton, St Mary, is living in a precarious condition. Just over a week ago, heavy rains and winds from a freak storm uprooted a guinep tree that landed on his four-bedroom…
December 9, 2025
by Albert Ferguson
Westmoreland Fire Brigade reports surge in emergency calls amid ambulance challenges
WESTERN BUREAU: While fire calls were down by 14 per cent nationally in 2023-2024, the situation was far different in Westmoreland, which registered a staggering 35 per cent increase that was further…
December 9, 2025
by Bryan Miller
Nish: Hanover looking at new strategies to sustain crime reduction
WESTERN NUREAU: Superintendent Andrew Nish, head of the Hanover Police Division, says he is encouraged by a significant decline in murders and shootings in the western parish. Despite this overall…
December 9, 2025
by Adrian Frater
Nat’l Patient Care Assn celebrates 35th anniversary
WESTERN BUREAU: A sea of pink and white filled the Glendevon New Testament Church of God in Montego Bay, St James, on Sunday as the National Patient Care Association (NPCA) celebrated its 35th…
December 9, 2025
by Paul H. Williams
Queen Nanny did not sign the treaty
NOT MUCH is known about Queen Nanny’s early years on Earth. But the story is that she was from west Africa, from where many people were taken to the West Indies to work on various plantations under…
December 9, 2025
by Christopher Thomas
St James councillors want better communication from NSWMA on garbage collection
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors at the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) are calling for an improvement in the communication between the National Solid Waste Management Authority’s [NSWMA] Western…
December 9, 2025
Streetlights brighten communities in Guy’s Hill
Twenty-seven streetlights have been installed in several communities in Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, providing a greater sense of safety and security for residents. The beneficiary communities are…
December 9, 2025
Fatally police shooting on Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew
A man was fatally shot by the police at a premises along Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew on Monday afternoon. He is yet to be identified. The incident occurred at about 3:40 p.m. This is the second…
December 9, 2025
Jamaica committed to environmental protection - Samuda
Jamaica cannot sit idly by as a victim of the global climate crisis but must instead play its part in unearthing solutions to the climate change challenges impacting the region, charged Minister of…