Parents Urged to Sign Up Children for Student Card

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is encouraging parents and guardians to sign up their children for the student card, as a safe and easy way to access subsidised fares under the National Rural School Bus system. The programme, which...

Jamaica united in blue

Walking in solidarity, Paula Sinclair (left) of UCT Steppas and Carlene Wallace of Duffle Body 365 Fitness step out in support of men’s health, raising awareness for prostate cancer and the importance of early detection. RUNNING Events Jamaica’s...

Church leaders stage march against obeah ahead of constitutional court challenge

Some church leaders on Wednesday staged a march in Spanish Town, St Catherine calling for Jamaica to uphold the law against obeah, saying the practise is wrong and goes against Jamaica’s Christian principles. It came a day before a constitutional...

Illegal immigrant from Jamaica accused of assaulting officer in South Nashville: ICE

A Nashville man accused of assaulting an officer earlier this month is an illegal immigrant from Jamaica, ICE confirms to FOX 17 News. Metro Police said on Sept. 10 in South Nashville, Tarfari Renaldo McIntosh was under the influence, left the...

Jamaicans to the World: Ashagaye Mullings’ JET Programme Journey to Yonago City, Japan

What is it like being a Jamaican living in Japan? In the latest episode of Jamaicans to the World, Xavier Murphy sits down with Ashagaye Mullings, a proud St. Thomas native whose journey has taken her from Seaforth to Tottori Prefecture in rural...

Government, JAAA get to work on keeping Jamaica’s athletes

TRACK AND field stakeholders, the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport and the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), are still making their way through the fallout of having four athletes declare the intention to...

Permissive culture of bullying

Sep 26, 2025 Letters Dear Editor, Bullying is the intentional act to belittle and dehumanise an individual. Bullying takes on various forms from cyber bullying to bullying in schools. Bullying inflicts deep-seated emotional and psychological harm...

Demo Day to shine spotlight on Jamaica’s female creatives

ONE OF the highlights of the Kingston Creative Artwalk Festival on Sunday, September 28 in downtown Kingston is the launch of the FAME (Film, Animation, Music & Entertainment) Incubator Demo Day, Jamaica’s first all-woman creative entrepreneur...

All J’cans, 50 Chinese laid off as Western children’s hospital almost finished

WESTERN BUREAU: Errol Greene, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, has confirmed that all Jamaican workers and 50 unskilled Chinese workers are no longer employed on the construction site of the new multibillion-dollar...

Jamaican man wrongly sent back to Eswatini from U.S. now back in his home country.

September 24th 2025. After spending two months in a maximum-security prison in Eswatini, Orville Etoria, a Jamaican man, has finally returned to his home country. Along with four other migrants, he had been deported to the Southern African nation...

Churches march against Obeah

With a public sermon and chants, pastors and their congregants on Wednesday marched in Spanish Town to demonstrate their rejection of any plan to legalise Obeah in Jamaica. The evangelical outcry comes as the constitutional challenge to the more...

The best things to eat and drink in Jamaica

“Out of many, one people” isn’t just Jamaica’s national motto; it describes the island’s cuisine. Jamaican cuisine fuses influences from West Africa, Europe, India, China, and the Middle East, shaped by centuries of migration and ingenuity. With...

Jamaican deportee held in Eswatini sent home to his family

Bujumbura — A Jamaican man deported from the US to Eswatini two months ago has been repatriated to Jamaica, says Eswatini’s government. The man, named in the government statement as Orville Isaac Etoria, was one of five third-country nationals...

Jamaica’s sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce bows out in glory

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce closed her glittering sprint career where it began—on Japanese soil—with one final medal, one last roar from the crowd, and the passing of a baton to the next generation. For Jamaica’s “Pocket Rocket,” it was farewell on...

Malachi Smith unveils JAMAKU, bridging Jamaica, Africa, and the diaspora

What was unveiled at the recent launch of JAMAKU—the latest publication by acclaimed dub poet Malachi Smith, presented as part of Jamaica’s Consul General Oliver Mair’s Distinguished Lecture series at the Island Space Caribbean Museum in South...

Jamaican Hip Hop Legend Heavy D honored posthumously with Purpose Talk Legacy Honor Award

Heavy D’s mom Eulahlee Myers speaks at the Awards Ceremony at the Resorts World Casino, Queens. Photo by Andrew O. Grant Search our comprehensive guide to caribbean events in NYC for more local events — or submit your own! More than a decade after...

CPFSA urges parents with thoughts of harming their children to reach out for support

The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) is urging parents who are having thoughts of harming their children to reach out to it for support. Dr. Warren Thompson, Director of Intake, Investigation and Court Services at the CPFSA,...

Jamaican student athlete in Canada fears death if family is deported

A 21-year-old Jamaican student athlete in Ontario says his family could be in grave danger if Canadian authorities proceed with deportation. - Advertisement - Tamarri Lindo, a top-ranked hurdler at York University and Canada’s number one indoor...

NAYA ROCKERS elevate global reggae with star-studded benefit album “Higher Education”

NAYA ROCKERS is back with "Higher Education," an 11 song benefit LP that covers regions, styles and ages. Listeners are welcomed into a rootsy storytime with the opening passage of Clinton Fearon’s, “Come With Us.” The track opens warm and wise,...

Jamaica eyes greater share of global tourist market

Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett is flanked by a few of the more than 100 buyer delegates in attendance at the JAPEX 2025 trade show being held in Montego Bay from September 21-26. As Jamaica looks to capture a larger share of the global travel...