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A member of the Project HOPE team attends to a resident during the organisation’s Hurricane Melissa relief operation.
29 Oct, 2026 0

Project Hope was one of the heroes of the Hurricane Melissa response

Western Bureau: When Hurricane Melissa battered Jamaica last October, leaving widespread devastation and dislocation in its wake, one of the first international organisations to respond was the…
C. Maxwell Holness, chairman of the Westgreen CDC.
28 Oct, 2026 0

SLEEPING WITH ONE EYE OPEN - Westgreen, Catherine Hall haunted by memories of Melissa as vulnerability remains

WESTERN BUREAU: At 62, Herman Jackson no longer goes to bed expecting a peaceful night’s sleep. When rain begins falling in Westgreen, he reaches for his water boots, checks the weather on his phone,…
Kamina Johnson Smith, Jamaica’s Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister speaking at the Post Cabinet Press Briefing on Wednesday.
28 Oct, 2026 0

Jamaica abstains from UN vote condemning US embargo against Cuba

Jamaica was among 25 countries that abstained from Wednesday’s United Nations General Assembly vote on a resolution condemning the United States’ economic embargo against Cuba, marking a shift in the…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness
28 Oct, 2026 0

Civil service boss hits back at PM’s sabotage claims

Accusations by Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness that unnamed public sector workers are trying to sabotage government policies and programmes have drawn the ire of the president of the Jamaica Civil…