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Players in the island’s construction industry are not expecting the local skilled labour shortage to impact rebuilding efforts as the country recovers from the impact of Hurricane Beryl. While acknowledging that there has been limited assessment of...

WESTERN BUREAU: Meat spoilage. That was the main complaint voiced by frustrated residents across sections of Trelawny on Monday afternoon. The residents all told The Gleaner that they have been without electricity since Wednesday, and while they...

A former government forensic analyst on Monday admitted that it was “very unusual” for her to have been asked to visit Keith Clarke’s murder scene five months after he was fatally shot. The witness, who had served in the post for 33 years and had...

WESTERN BUREAU: Seventy-nine-year-old Amy Campbell has been in deep mourning after her older sister Icilda James was found dead in a pond in Dumfries, St James, following the passage of Hurricane Beryl. “Oh my God, I tell you something, I can’t...

It will take US$2 million (J$310 million) or more to get Munro College in Potsdam, St Elizabeth, back up and running following Hurricane Beryl’s destructive passage, which left 31 of the 35 buildings on the school’s compound mangled. The 168-year-...

Though visibly distressed by the wreckage that Hurricane Beryl caused on the historic property, the management of Lover’s Leap in Yardley Chase, St Elizabeth, is resolute in their efforts to restore the attraction to its former glory. Perched atop...

St Elizabeth’s Treasure Beach, the fast-rising tourism community on Jamaica’s south coast, was left devastated after a pummelling from Category 4 Hurricane Beryl which tore off roofs, toppled trees, and downed dozens of power lines. Officials have...

Residents of Bull Savannah in St Elizabeth have rallied together to fast-track their recovery from the powerful Category 4 Hurricane Beryl, which uprooted their lives last Wednesday. On Friday, Edwin Powell was busy repairing his neighbour’s roof...

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Violet Neilson, will be laid to rest on Monday following an official funeral at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, Rose Hall, St James. The service is set to begin at 11:00 a.m. Neilson died on June...

Despite ongoing concerns over maternal and infant mortality at some hospitals, specialists across the island are employing advanced medical techniques to ensure the health and survival of vulnerable children. In recent years, Jamaica’s medical...

“If a did night, believe mi, mi wuda dead, everybody else wuda dead.” This was the grim conclusion of a young Manchester farmer, Michael Patterson, after his two-bedroom house was destroyed by Hurricane Beryl on Wednesday, leaving him, his partner...

A glimpse of happiness shone amid the devastation of Hurricane Beryl when a group of children from Farquhar Fishing Village in Clarendon walked the beach to collect conch. With smiles on their faces from their catch, they walked back proudly to...