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Author Alton Allen, former Jamaica College Manning Cup footballer.
06 Oct, 2026 0

Former JC footballer pens novels to give Denham Town a voice

Former Jamaica College (JC) Manning Cup footballer Alton Allen has travelled a long way from the streets of Denham Town where he grew up, but nearly three decades after leaving Jamaica for the United…
Hanover Eastern Member of Parliament Andrea Purkiss.
06 Oct, 2026 0

Purkiss confronts SPARK work crew

WESTERN BUREAU: Just days after lamenting in Parliament about the unsatisfactory state of the roadwork being done in her constituency under the SPARK programme, Hanover Eastern Member of Parliament…
St Catherine South Western Member of Parliament Everald Warmington.
05 Oct, 2026 0

‘UNINFORMED’ - Global Afrikan Congress rebukes Warmington over slave trade remarks, urges him to do research and apologise

The Global Afrikan Congress (GAC) is demanding an apology from parliamentarian Everald Warmington for his “uninformed assertions” that Black Africans who sold people into the transatlantic slave…
JUTA President Simon Lawrence.
05 Oct, 2026 0

Representation row hits tourism transport sector

WESTERN BUREAU: A representation dispute has erupted in Jamaica’s tourism ground transportation sector, with the more than 2,000-member JUTA Montego Bay declaring that a government-recognised umbrella…
Senator Charles Sinclair.
05 Oct, 2026 0

Sinclair calls for insurance laws to tackle claims delays

Government Senator Charles Sinclair is urging the administration to review the Financial Services Commission and Insurance acts and their regulations to address, among other things, lengthy delays in…
Senior Superintendent Leighton Grey, head of the St Catherine South Police Division.
05 Oct, 2026 0

Domestic violence fuel St Catherine South murders

Nearly one-third of the murders recorded by the St Catherine South Police so far this year are linked to domestic violence or interpersonal conflicts, the commanding officer for the division has…
Dr Damie Sinanan said the current shipping system makes it expensive and inefficient to move food between Caribbean territories, with some shipments requiring goods to be routed through Panama, Jamaica, or Miami in the United States before reaching neighbo
05 Oct, 2026 0

CEDA: Costly shipping, inefficient logistics hurting regional food trade

WESTERN BUREAU: The region’s push to boost food and agricultural exports is being held back by high shipping costs, inefficient logistics and fragmented sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) requirements,…
Minister of Agriculture Floyd Green speaking at a plenary session at the 20th Caribbean Week of Agriculture at the Ocean Coral Spring Resort in Trelawny on September 30.
05 Oct, 2026 0

‘Real work starts’ - Green calls for action on Caribbean food barriers as CWA wraps up

WESTERN BUREAU Caribbean countries are being urged to dismantle standards barriers that continue to stifle the movement of agricultural and fisheries products across regional borders, as governments…
“I want the truth to be out; my story. People don’t stop to think or to try to know the type of person that they are talking about.”
04 Oct, 2026 0

Deported and defamed - Jamaican rejects US immigration authorities’ characterisation of ‘criminal history’, says charges were dismissed

A Jamaican man deported after 12 years in the United States is rejecting allegations by immigration authorities there that he is a violent criminal, insisting that serious criminal charges brought…