Bishop Dwight Fletcher of the Jamaica Umbrella Group of Churches recalled how churches helped freed people own land in free villages and founded schools, and said the Church’s future authority depends on the integrity and transparency of its institutions.

Kingston, Jamaica, 18 August 2026 Jamaica has entered the final year of a major United Nations-supported programme designed to modernise education through…

688 schools were damaged by Hurricane Melissa, 311 severely. Nine months later, western Jamaica’s students are starting the new school year in temporary plyboard classrooms after tents failed to hold up.

Barbados’ National Housing Corporation is recruiting and training young people to fill an expected shortage of skilled construction workers as housing projects expand.

Constant Spring Road Church of God marks 70 years at 93B Constant Spring Road, where since 1956 it has added a basic school, a computer training centre and a food pantry to its ministry.

At a churches’ Emancipation event, UTech planning professor Carol Archer linked Hurricane Melissa’s damage to 120,000 buildings with poor building practice and the fact that about 40 per cent of Jamaica’s land is still unregistered.

Sister Mary Susan Frazer, area administrator of the Sisters of Mercy in Jamaica, has died. She was known for the extensive development of the St John Bosco Vocational Training Centre in Hatfield, Manchester, and her work with Alpha in Kingston.

A letter writer welcomed Dr Balvin Braham as president of Northern Caribbean University, noting the Seventh-day Adventist institution operates without direct government funding while needing campus expansion, structural renovations, modern lecture theatres and new technology.

Dunrobin Christian Academy, after about 70 years at 15 Dunrobin Avenue, is moving to a newly acquired property with renovations estimated at about $70 million, even as 90 per cent of its grade six students won first-choice high school places.

A $3.7-billion contract has been signed for Jamaica’s first STEAM Academy at Greater Bernard Lodge in St Catherine, a school designed for about 2,400 students in grades seven to 13.