Billion-Dollar Collapse WESTERN BUREAU: Three months after Hurricane Melissa struck western Jamaica, large sections of the community cable network remain dark, leaving operators to confront an estimated $1.4 billion in losses and the possibility that locally owned media...
Where there’s no will ... At 83, Albertha H. is clear about one thing: she will not be tempting fate by making a will. “You a invite dead?” she fires back, half-laughing, half-challenging, when asked if she worries about dying without one. Then, with the kind of sprightly...
DEATHBED CONFIDANTE By the time patients reach the final stretch of their lives, the questions they bring to Dr Kanchana Bandara Coore are rarely medical alone. They are about children who will be left behind, marriages that still need tending, estranged relatives who...
Holness seeks update on FID probe Lawmakers should consider amending the laws governing public bodies with investigative powers by including provisions to protect citizens from reputational damage, legal experts have suggested. The suggestion comes amid confirmation by The Sunday...
‘I can’t even walk on my own land’ A 68-year-old man’s lifelong dream of owning a home is in jeopardy amid claims that the Ministry of Housing has encroached on his property in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Fighting back tears, Willie Rowe said his long-held ambition was derailed last...
‘I did not see’ Agriculture Minister Floyd Green yesterday admitted in the Home Circuit Court that, while he witnessed parts of a 2013 police operation along Acadia Drive, St Andrew, he did not see the actual killing of three men during the incident. During cross...
Johnson Smith touts Jamaica as ‘place to be’ for int’l investors PANAMA CITY, Panama: Jamaica’s foreign minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, has issued a clarion call to international investors to partner in the strategic redevelopment of the island’s western corridor, drawing on a decade of tax stability and...
‘Don’t witness signatures you don’t know’ WESTERN BUREAU: Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Delroy Chuck is warning justices of the peace (JPs) not to witness signatures being made by people they do not know, or they might land themselves in hot water on criminal charges for...
Former banker Patrick Hylton to bat for small business as PSOJ head Having spent years at the helm of Jamaica’s largest financial institution, new president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Patrick Hylton says he will use his experience to pave the way for businesses to access much-needed...
Young men build foundation to support education, communities At 21, Stephen Simpson and Zakari Messam have turned a shared impulse into something more durable. What began during the COVID-19 pandemic as informal conversations about giving back – initially centred on a modest Easter initiative – has evolved...