NEW YORK (AP): People with darker skin still need to wear sunscreen – for more reasons than one. Too much ultraviolet exposure from the sun can lead to sunburn, dark spots and wrinkles, and increased risk of skin cancer. The melanin in darker skin...

TORONTO: A research report to assess the potential establishment of the Pan-African Credit Union (PACU) in Ontario was launched recently by the Pan-African Credit Union (PACU) Initiative Steering Committee in Toronto. Its purpose is to dismantle...

Fourteen Jamaican students have been awarded full scholarships to pursue undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Cuba under the longstanding Cuba-Jamaica Bilateral Scholarship Programme. The students, who will begin their studies in August, will...

One billion plastic bottles have been successfully removed from the environment since 2019. This was revealed by general manager, Recycling Partners of Jamaica (RPJ), Gairy Taylor, during a recent interview with JIS News. “RPJ has been very active...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator Aubyn Hill, is urging manufacturers to take advantage of the Government’s Productive Input Relief Programme, which facilitates duty-free importation of specific items intended for productive...

CALABASH LITERARY Festival 2025 was rich, big, sweet, juicy, tantalising, and patrons just ate up whatever flowed from the vessel. Yes, there were the sea, sea breezes, galloping ‘white horses’, misty headlands, the parching sun, music, food, fun,...

Wisynco Group Limited carried out a series of community outreach activities focused on supporting students and schools across Jamaica to mark Child Month 2025. Team members from Wisynco’s Hague Distribution Centre participated in Career Day at...

Whenever, Thea May steps into the classroom, she introduces a new concept or a digital tool, and her students become excited and filled with purpose. “There is something magical about watching students understand how technology works and use it...

The St Martin de Porres Primary and Infant School in Gordon Town, St Andrew was a vibrant hub of activity and collaboration on Labour Day as the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information (MoESYI), the National Education Trust (NET), an...

Prime Minister, Dr Andrew Holness, has hailed the country’s educators as “activators of potential”. “It does not matter how many classrooms we build or how many tablets we distribute, because without the educator, education stalls. The educator is...

WESTERN BUREAU: Renowned child and family therapist Dr Beverly Scott is urging Jamaican parents to take a more active role in monitoring their children’s social media use, warning that some children are creating decoy accounts to mislead parents...

Expert on data privacy, Andre Palmer, has emphasised the urgency for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to be compliant with the Data Protection Act. Palmer, who is head of practice at Securys (Jamaica) Ltd, was making a presentation on the...

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Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Matthew Samuda, says hotel developments which are currently being approved are now required to put in place pathways providing citizens access to beaches that they...

WESTERN BUREAU: Lennox Wallace, manager of the St James Public Health Services, has issued an appeal to women, urging them not to remain silent about domestic abuse, arguing that such silence fuels a dangerous cycle of violence that harms families...

WESTERN BUREAU: Sergeant Leon Golding, a member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s [JCF] Community Safety and Security Unit, is asking citizens to be more proactive in assisting the police to ensure the safety of children in their communities, as...

As the Atlantic Hurricane Season approaches, greenhouse farmers are being encouraged to prepare their farms to withstand storms. The urging comes from Managing Director of Abbey Garden Farm and the Caribbean’s Young Farmer of the Year for 2023,...

Labour Day, May 23, was a demonstration of unity and purpose as community members, local leaders and Jamalco volunteers came together, not just to work, but to contribute to a shared vision of advancing projects in several key locations. The...

This year’s Africa Day celebrations in schools across the island are scheduled for Friday, May 30. The day is traditionally observed on May 25 by the African Union and nations with a significant African diaspora. However, as May 25 falls on a...

Agro parks across the island will soon benefit from free Internet access, as the Universal Service Fund (USF) looks to expand its reach beyond traditional community access points to support wider government initiatives. Speaking at a recent Jamaica...

WESTERN BUREAU: Perry Cummings Jr, outgoing president of the Guild of Students at The University of the West Indies, Mona, has called for a comprehensive public safety strategy in response to recent incidents of violence against women and children...

TORONTO: Jamaica’s High Com-missioner to Canada, Marsha Coore Lobban, has hailed the strength and success of Canada/Caribbean partnerships at various leadership levels over the years. Coore Lobban was a participant at the opening plenary of The...

Local rights group Stand Up for Jamaica has joined its voice with Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) and Equality for All Foundation (EFAF) in condemning what appeared to be West Portland Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz’s endorsement of a song viewed as...

The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), the agency responsible for children in foster homes across Jamaica, issued a challenge to girls at the Granville Place of Safety in Trelawny on Friday, as non-profit organisation Children of...

More than 30 young ladies from the Granville Place of Safety in Trelawny were fêted during an afternoon trip to the Bahia Principe Grand Jamaica hotel in Runaway Bay, St Ann, last Friday. The afternoon went well for the girls as they enjoyed lunch...

A judge has warned that the court is “blind” after Bengal Development Company raised class and colour discrimination as possibly influencing a constitutional lawsuit brought by residents seeking to stop mining in a section of Jamaica’s...

Jamaica is on track to meet and exceed the goal of protecting 30 per cent of its land mass by 2030. Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says 25 per cent of Jamaica’s land mass has already been protected, up from eight per cent in 2016. This aligns...

The Pan American Development Foundation, in partnership with the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the United States (US) Embassy in Kingston, has launched the Comm-Unity Resilience and Transformation (CREATE) Project, a two-year, US$2-million...

The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, at the highest decision-making body outside of its annual business meeting of Council, the Campus Finance and General Purposes Committee (CFGPC), has approved a proposal from the Faculty of...

In celebration of Labour Day 2025, WPM Waste Management Ltd mobilised community volunteers, civic partners, and local agencies for a clean-up and beautification project in Masemure, Westmoreland. The initiative targeted a long-standing illegal...

Opposition Spokesman on Health and Wellness Dr Alfred Dawes is unrelenting in expressing concerns over the cost of a neurosurgical drill purchased by the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA), arguing that the device was significantly...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has as its goal: All children grow up free from violence. In this Child Month and beyond, we would do well to beware of becoming desensitised to the suffering of abused children across Jamaica. This...

So, there was a spirited conversation between two neighbours recently! Did you hear them? Neighbour 1: If I were you... Neighbour 2: Stop! You are not me, will never be me, and I will never be you! Neighbour 1: I know, but I’m just saying......

WESTERN BUREAU: It took more than ten years, three police officers, and a change of parish before Mercia Fraser could finally say the words she had waited so long to utter: “Now we can go and deal with our closure and say that it is done.” Fraser,...

WESTERN BUREAU: More than a decade after her son, Mario Deane, was brutally beaten in a jail cell over a ganja spliff, Mercia Fraser is still haunted by the loss – but now, she is finding purpose in her pain. Just days after a Westmoreland jury...