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FOR SOME time it had not rained in Claremont, St Ann, but the showers came down yesterday, forcing supporters of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ann North East, Shahine Robinson, to seek shelter inside her home or other...

A YEAR shy of her 20th anniversary as a member of parliament, Shahine Robinson, 66, has died having lost her battle with lung cancer. She is the second minister in successive governments to die while in office following Roger Clarke in 2014....

AS THE 2020 hurricane season begins in another two days, residents of Cedar Avenue in Nightingale Grove, St Catherine, have reflected on some scary experiences they have had in the past when heavy rains pounded the country. For years, Cedar...

Jamaica, together. We will be okay soon. Be safe. – KipRich Entertainer

WESTERN BUREAU: THE DECISION by Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore to take charge of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation’s (WMC) new multimillion dollar headquarters effective June 1 has been hailed as a positive move by the business community...

Labour and Social Security Minister Shahine Robinson was last night “fighting” after falling gravely ill days ago amid a long battle with cancer, a niece of Robinson’s has said. Robinson has been in and out of hospital since 2018. The Government...

Residents of Rum Lane in downtown Kingston have backed themselves to rise from the ashes of Wednesday’s fire that gutted several dwellings. But their rebound rests on how quickly they can get help in procuring building and roofing material to start...

Eleven-year-old Rogeena Fearon of Charles Street, downtown Kingston, proves that she is a friend in good and bad times. When her friend, nine-year-old Preanka McFarlane, a grade-three student at Denham Town Primary School, lost her home in a fire...

It has become clear that the changes and costs associated with this pandemic will not dissipate any time soon. There will be new norms to which we will have to conform, necessary for our safety and the safety of those around us. As Jamaicans, we...

Not even a downpour on Thursday afternoon could dampen the spirits of members of the Tivoli Dance Group who were determined to pay tribute to the late Edward Seaga at a ceremony to mark the first anniversary of his passing at the National Heroes...

Legislation to amend the fiscal responsibility law was passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday without amendment but not before a lengthy and contentious debate over the route taken by the Government and the short notice given to the...