Jamaica commemorates International Day for Persons with Disabilities

Reading Time: 2 minutesJamaica joins the global community in commemorating today (December 3) as International Day for Persons with Disabilities. The celebrations around this day are anchored in the theme, “Fostering disability inclusive…

‘Somali-Americans contribute nothing and should go back to their awful country’—President Trump 

Reading Time: 2 minutesPresident Donald Trump doesn’t mince words and more often than not doesn’t take the political correctness route. In a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday (December 2), he slammed Somalia as a…

Denise Daley | Inclusion as a rule: Further social progress for International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe following is a statement from Opposition Spokesperson on Gender Denise Daley in observance of International Day of Persons with Disabilities: As we observe the International Day of Persons with…

Jamaica beefing up goat stock with imports from Miami

Reading Time: 3 minutesDurrant Pate/ Contributor With Hurricane Melissa devastating Jamaica’s goat stock, the island is beefing up its inventory through imports, the first of which arrived on the island days ago through…

SLB pledges to support students and customers impacted by Hurricane Melissa

Reading Time: 2 minutesExecutive Director of the Student Loan Bureau (SLB), Nickeisha Walsh said the SLB aims to support students and customers that have been impacted by Hurricane Melissa.

“So currently, students in tertiary institutions and customers across the parishes have been impacted. So SLB will be introducing several measures to show our commitment in protecting vulnerable boroughs, addressing post-disaster socioeconomic disruptions, and upholding our mandate to ensure equitable access to tertiary education,” Walsh said.

China’s first shipment of post-hurricane relief supplies arrives in Jamaica

Reading Time: 2 minutesChina’s first shipment of post-Melissa relief supplies arrived at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Monday and was delivered to the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM)….