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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Juliet Holness, Chief Hansard Reporter, Carl Bryan (centre), and Clerk to the Houses of Parliament, Colleen Lowe, lead the Opening Ceremony for Orientation of Members of Parliament at Gordon House.
06 Oct, 2025 0

New Parliament gets under way

Members of the new House of Representatives are expected to turn out in their numbers today for their first working day at Gordon House, more than two weeks after they took the Oath of Allegiance. …
The curfew began at 6 p.m. Monday and will continue until 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
06 Oct, 2025 0

Curfew imposed in Linstead communities

A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in three communities in the Linstead area of St Catherine following last night’s mass shooting in Commodore. The curfew began at 6 p.m. Monday and will continue…
Jamaica’s Tyreek Magee (right) tries to evade the challenge of the United States’ Malik Tillman during a Concacaf Nations League, League A quarter-final match at the National Stadium on November 14, 2024.
06 Oct, 2025 0

Magee back at Mount Pleasant

JAMAICA INTERNATIONAL Tyreek Magee has joined Jamaica Premier League (JPL) outfit Mount Pleasant Football Academy on a free transfer. The club made the announcement on Sunday, with Magee set to take…
Jamaica Technical Committee Chairman, Rudolph Speid.
06 Oct, 2025 0

Speid gets to work on football philosophy

THE RELENTLESS call for a national football philosophy and system of play is finally about to be answered says Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Technical Committee Chairman Rudolph Speid, after the…
J. Wray & Nephew wins the VM JMEA Legacy Award at the 2025 M&E Awards.
06 Oct, 2025 0

Manufacturing excellence hailed at JMEA Gala

Jamaica’s manufacturing and export sectors stepped into the spotlight on Saturday night at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston as the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA), in…
The Acting Prison Commissioner said that between April and October this year, there have been more than 600 drone drops with the most popular spot being at the Maximum Security Prison at Arouca.
06 Oct, 2025 0

Trinidadian prison officials concerned at high rate of drone drop offs into prison areas

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The acting Commissioner of Prisons, Hayden Forde, Monday said that drone drop offs were contributing significantly to contraband reaching prison walls, and is also…
Principal of the St Catherine-based Greater Portmore High School, Ricardo Ross (third left), with (from left) Vice Principal, Kevin Wright; Vice President of the Student Council, Mauricih McIntosh; Head Girl at the school, Sashneik Nicholson; Prefect, Seth
06 Oct, 2025 0

Greater Portmore High School achieves big improvement in CSEC English

Greater Portmore High School in St Catherine has achieved a pass rate of 82 per cent in Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) English, moving from a rate of 56 per cent. Principal,…
Former Education Minister Ruel Reid (left) and former Caribbean Maritime University President Professor Fritz Pinnock.
06 Oct, 2025 0

Reid’s defence fights attempt to block witnesses’ names from media publication

The defence team in the multimillion-dollar fraud case involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid and his co-accused has strongly opposed a prosecution request barring the media from publishing the…
Richard Mullings, president of the Incorporated Masterbuilders Association of Jamaica.
06 Oct, 2025 0

Masterbuilders raise red flag over Government’s failure to spend

The Incorporated Masterbuilders Association of Jamaica (IMAJ) is raising an alarm over what it describes as the persistent underspending of the national capital budget, even as many of its members…