NEPA’s New Plan: Cash for Clues and the Case of the Disappearing Evidence
WATER QUALITY In Jamaica, people are quick to pull out their phones to catch a viral dance or a pothole...
NEWS & VIEWS
PEP Pressure: Why We Need to Pass Compassion Before We Pass Exams
pep exams Every June in Jamaica, you can almost hear it before you see it. The shrieks of joy echoing...
“Pocket Rocket to Legend: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and the Legacy We Needed”
shelly Ann In a world where headlines disappear quicker than a patty on lunch break, some names don’t fade, they...
“Empty Praise: Why Jamaican Teachers Tired of ‘Big Up’ and Want Bigger Cheque Instead”
jamaican classroom You see that little chalkboard at the front of every classroom? That’s where the real groundwork of the...
Jamaica’s PEP Progress: One-One Cocoa, but No Full Basket as Yet
Let’s face it: when it comes to education in Jamaica, good news can feel as rare as a pay raise...
Crime fighting and Forward Thinking: Jamaica’s New Order in the age of technology
TECHNOLOGY AND CRIME FIGHTING Every now and again, the Jamaica Constabulary Force reminds us that dem nuh just have baton...
Digital Justice; Gov. to Fast-Track Online Court
online court In a country where the average court date feels like waiting on rain fi wet up dry cassava,...
Ticket scamming in St. James; two caught by police
scammer When people talk about organised crime in Jamaica, you think guns, drugs, maybe a few shady land deals. What...
Chicken frenzy
kfc 50 anniversary promo sale Ah bwoy, only inna Jamaica yuh hear seh chicken nearly cause civil unrest. Wednesday morning...
St. Thomas Ganja Bust Tells a Bigger Story
GANJA SEIZURE IN JAMAICA It was a quiet Sunday in Prospect, St Thomas. The kind of place where most people...
“Breeze Buss Pipe and Tek Light: Another Episode in JPS Chronicles”
WINDY CONDITIONS IN JAMAICA At this point, we might as well admit it: in Jamaica, electricity is not so much...
Farmers warned to prepare for hurricane season
farmers As the hurricane season threatens to batter the island once again, the silent backbone of Jamaica’s food supply finds...
“Whole-Hearted? – popular chinese mechanic to reopen under conditions.
chinese mechanics 2 So, Whole-Hearted Car Service, the now infamous Chinese-owned auto shop that made waves across social media and...
3,000 Trees and Counting: Is Jamaica Finally Getting Serious About Green Spaces?
jamaican planting trees Let’s be honest; when most Jamaicans hear “tree planting” from government lips, we start side-eyeing like we...
Power Moves: JPS Brings in Foreign Linemen as Hurricane Season Heats Up
jamaican powerline worker Jamaica, mi love, is a country that knows storms, from the ones that come off the Atlantic,...