- US special envoy to Haiti resigns over migrant expulsions 9:50 pm
- Disabled people can now use Android phones with face gestures 8:56 pm
- Three arrested in Clifton Boys' Home beatings 8:25 pm
- WHO backs antibody treatment for high-risk COVID patients 7:55 pm
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$4-m support for students 11:10 pm
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Courtnie Thompson, a third-year medical student of The University of the West Indies, is one step closer to achieving her dream of becoming a paediatrician.
Educator organises gifts for Sav nurses
4:20 pm
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland — Residents from this parish have made it clear how much they care about staff from the accident and emergency (A&E) department at the Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital.
'We are hurting'
10:40 pm
MONTEGO BAY, St James- Business operators in sections of the inner-city community of Norwood, St James, are complaining bitterly over what they say is the steep decline in business since the declaration of the zone of special operation (ZOSO) in June,...
Kendal Primary top PEP students get $750,000 in scholarships
Thursday, September 23, 2021
KENDAL, Hanover - Eleven outstanding Primary Exit Profile (PEP) students of Kendal Primary School in the parish Hanover were the recent beneficiaries of scholarships valued at roughly $750,000 from past students of the school.
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SPL Foundation removes 430lbs of garbage from MoBay's beaches
Thursday, September 23, 2021
MONTEGO BAY, St James -In observation of this year's International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day, the youth-led Street People Liberation (SPL) Foundation's Eco Initiative embarked on a two-day operation to rid Montego Bay beaches of plastic waste.
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Trelawny custos announces plans to establish JP association for the parish
Thursday, September 23, 2021
FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Custos rotulorum of Trelawny, Hugh Gentles, has announced plans for a justices of the peace (JPs) association for the parish.
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SRI makes in-kind donations to Hanover, St James institutions
Thursday, September 23, 2021
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Over the past few months, Sandals Resorts International (SRI) has made in-kind donations to several institutions in St James and the neighbouring parish of Hanover.
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'We are hurting'
Thursday, September 23, 2021
MONTEGO BAY, St James- Business operators in sections of the inner-city community of Norwood, St James, are complaining bitterly over what they say is the steep decline in business since the declaration of the zone of special operation (ZOSO) in June,...
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PUSHED BACK!
Thursday, September 23, 2021
The wait for the start of the Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) schoolboys' football season could be pushed back at least a month as the organisers are still awaiting the go-ahead to restart the daCosta and Manning Cup football...
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Cruise calls set to spike
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced that cruise shipping will fully return to Jamaican ports shortly and has implored craft vendors and other players who are complaining that they are being denied their share of the tourism pie to exercise...
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St James taxi operators vow to continue bad road protest today
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
JOHN'S HALL, St James — Scores of public transportation operators who service the route between Montego Bay and John's Hall in St James withdrew their service yesterday in protest over the deplorable state of the road and have threatened to escalate their demonstration by blocking...
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Hurting for a Moderna jab
Monday, September 20, 2021
MONTEGO BAY, St James — When 41-year-old Paulette Jackson received her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a visit to Canada, she did not anticipate the trouble she would face in Jamaica in getting the second jab to become fully vaccinated against the deadly...
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COVID delays Mario Deane case… again
Saturday, September 18, 2021
MONTEGO BAY, St James — For roughly the 10th time since it was first brought before the St James Circuit Court in 2018, the Mario Deane case was once again pushed back when the matter came up in court on Thursday.
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Don't forget the disabled
Friday, September 17, 2021
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Arthritic, blind, and wheelchair bound, three residents of Granville who yesterday got vaccinated against COVID-19 are pleading for the Government to ensure that disabled Jamaicans can also get their jabs.
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Legal action looms
Thursday, September 16, 2021
HOPEWELL, Hanover - Faced with a chronic shortage of burial space in the Hopewell Cemetery, chairman of the Hanover Municipal Corporal (HMC), Sheridan Samuels, has warned that the local authority will be heading to court in an effort to rid the burial ground of...
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NCB Foundation assists two St James schools with back-to-school needs
Thursday, September 16, 2021
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Two St James schools are now better prepared for the new academic year, after recently benefiting from donations by the National Commercial Bank (NCB) Foundation.
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CUMI raises more than $2 million from inaugural fund-raising golf tournament
Thursday, September 16, 2021
TRYALL, Hanover - Organisers have hailed last Saturday's inaugural staging of the Tryall-CUMI Charity Golf Tournament held at the Tryall Golf Course in Hanover, as a tremendous success.
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Better days ahead for the Reggae Boyz
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Sports, we have come to realise, is never played on paper, and the teams and players must go into competition and prove themselves worthy.If all we needed to do was put names on paper to get results, why then would we even need to play the games?
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