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File Paul Simpson (left), founder of Cornerstone who was then a vice-president at Proven Wealth Ltd, beside Chairman and co-founder of Proven Management Peter Bunting, along with other executives, in 2011 at the listing of Proven on the Jamaica Stock Excha
December 19, 2025

Proven and Cornerstone to partner on projects

Proven Management Limited, investment manager of Proven Group Limited, announced plans to partner with Cornerstone Group, which indirectly holds the second largest stake in Proven through its…
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December 19, 2025

JSE tourism-linked companies reeling from Melissa impact – NCB Capital

Tourism-related companies listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) have been dealt a blow from Hurricane Melissa which will impact them well into 2026, according to large brokerage firm NCB Capital…
AP Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump’s pick to be NASA administrator, speaks during a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, December 3 in Washington.
December 19, 2025

Billionaire to run NASA

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator, placing him atop the agency after a months-long saga where President Donald Trump revoked his…
A train pulls into the Clark Street and Lake Street Blue Line stop, where a man doused a woman in liquid and set her on fire on the train in Chicago. AP
December 19, 2025

Illinois secures US$1.5 billion to elevate bus and trains

Illinois’ public transit systems got a US$1.5-billion annual infusion on Friday as Governor JB Pritzker signed a law overhauling Chicago’s web of buses and trains, sparing it from devastating service…
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo. (AP)
December 19, 2025

Quarterly ‘tankan’ survey shows slight improvement as Bank of Japan weighs a rate hike

A quarterly survey of major Japanese manufacturers released Monday shows business sentiment improving to its best level in four years, even after President Trump raised tariffs on goods from the…
AP Author Sophie Kinsella shops in the children’s section at Bergdorf Goodman in New York in 2010.
December 19, 2025

Author who sold 45m ‘Shopaholic’ novels dies

Writer Sophie Kinsella, whose effervescent rom com Confessions of a Shopaholic sparked a million-selling series, died on December 10, her family said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with brain…
AP Tokyo Tower is visible amid tall buildings as a container ship leaves a cargo terminal in Tokyo, April 2025.
December 19, 2025

Japan exports climbed in November

Japan’s exports climbed 6.0 per cent in November from a year earlier, with shipments to the United States rising for the first time since March as uncertainties over tariffs abated following a trade…
US President Donald Trump in the White House, Dec. 15, 2025, in Washington DC, USA (AP Photo)
December 19, 2025

How a Trump Media US$1 billion deal with crypto firm exposes potential conflict of interest

Crypto.com was under siege. For more than a year, the firm had been investigated by President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration, part of an aggressive push to regulate the largely unregulated…
AP The office of social media firm Reddit in New York, USA.
December 19, 2025

Reddit challenges Australia’s world-first law banning children under 16 from social media

Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia’s world first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s most popular social media…