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American actress Phylicia Rashad interacts with adolescent mothers during a conversation about motherhood, education and discipline at the Women’s Centre of Jamaica in St Andrew yesterday.
Published 17 hours ago by Sashana Small

‘You all have a fire inside you’

Adolescent mothers at the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCFJ) in St Andrew were yesterday encouraged not to give up on their dreams, but to pursue them with confidence and determination…
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Published 17 hours ago

House to comb through expenditure, revenue measures

The Standing Finance Committee of the House of Representatives will begin its examination of the Estimates of Expenditure over two days next week. The committee, which comprises all members of the…
Published 17 hours ago by Tanesha Mundle

Witness confirms confiscation of 11 guns from 6 cops in deadly Acadia shooting

A retired detective sergeant testified yesterday that he had seized 11 firearms from six policemen involved in the 2013 fatal shooting of three men on Acadia Drive in Kingston. The witness also…
Deidre Powell
Updated 15 hours ago

Ja-born lawyer receives SK Arts grant to support new poetry anthology

REGINA, SK: Regina poet, lawyer, and author, Deidre S. Powell, has been awarded a $5,000 grant from SK Arts through the Building Arts Equity Program to support the completion of a new poetry…
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Published 17 hours ago by Leon Jackson

JDDB donates J$32m to aid dairy sector’s post-Melissa recovery

Western Bureau: The Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB), in keeping with its mandate to assist local cattle farmers in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, has donated J$32 million to assist…
Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton (left) and clinical coordinator, Western Regional Health Authority, Dr Delroy Fray, converse during a press briefing at the WRHA offices in Montego Freeport on Thursday.
Published 17 hours ago by Janet Silvera

Tufton: Health centres to ‘build back smarter’

WESTERN BUREAU: The Ministry of Health & Wellness is moving into the second phase of post-Hurricane Melissa reconstruction, with more than 100 damaged health centres across western Jamaica set to…
Wesley Boynes, the chairman of the NorthGate Youth and Family Development Foundation, which has launched the Operation GRACE initiative to assist victims of Hurricane Melissa in Cambridge and other surrounding communities in St James.
Published 17 hours ago by Christopher Thomas

Operation GRACE launched to help Hurricane Melissa victims in Cambridge

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Cambridge and neighbouring communities in St James, which were severely affected by Hurricane Melissa, are set to receive help to rebuild infrastructurally and…
Professor Augustine John
Updated 15 hours ago

Trump’s agenda is to make America white again

Donald Trump’s posting on his Truth Social account platform on February 6 of headshots of Michelle and Barack Obama superimposed on the bodies of apes drew widespread expressions of horror and disgust…
Donette Chin-Loy Chang.
Updated 15 hours ago by Neil Armstrong

Three Canadians of Jamaican heritage appointed to the Order of Ontario

TORONTO: The beginning of the Chinese New Year on Tuesday was an auspicious moment for Donette Chin-Loy Chang as it was announced that she was among 30 Ontarians appointed to the Order of Ontario,…