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Tyrone Wilson, founder of Kintyre Holdings Ltd.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Kintyre seeks additional US$500,000 to fund growth

Kintyre Holdings, the Junior Market company, aims to raise US$500,000 in private equity funding to finance operations. Earning nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in profit over six months has…
This image, released by Amazon/MGM Studios, shows Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett in a scene from ‘Verity’.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Movie Review | ‘Verity’ puts Hathaway, Johnson and Hartnett in Colleen Hoover thriller

AP: In Verity, it’s hard to know who to trust. There’s Anne Hathaway’s titular character, a wildly popular novelist who is unable to speak or move after a car accident, but whose secret, disturbing…
Craftpersons seen creating jewellery at the Pandora factory in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, on Wednesday, September. AP
02 Oct, 2026 0

Pandora opens $150-million Vietnam jewellery factory powered by renewable energy

Danish jewellery company Pandora has opened the world’s largest fine-jewellery crafting facility in Vietnam, a US$150-million factory powered entirely by renewable electricity and using 100 per cent…
Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Director of Operations Dr Nicole Manning displays a copy of the School-Based Assessment (SBA) Concession document during a press conference held at the Overseas Examinations Commission in St Andrew in January.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Kristen Gyles | Who wrote the SBA?

I have had the privilege of not only performing School-Based Assessments (SBAs) for subjects I sat at the CSEC level, but also marking SBAs for students sitting CSEC exams. In my days sitting CSEC,…
File Fesco gas station on Beechwood Avenue in St Andrew.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Fesco opening more stations

Future Energy Source Company Ltd (FESCO) plans to open two more dealer-owned service stations this year, which would take its network to 26 islandwide. The expansion follows record sales and rising…
Rev Neville Callam
02 Oct, 2026 0

Peter Espeut | A mighty tree has fallen

A few weeks ago, I lost a good friend. Baptist minister the Rev Dr Neville George Callam passed away on August 15 while on a visit to the United States. At his funeral last week, many said he will be…
Letters
02 Oct, 2026 0

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Jamaica has a salary problem, but we keep calling it a cost-of-living problem This is true enuh, the wages paid to Jamaicans are abysmal compared to the cost of living. - @unbrash Only someone…
Meta glasses are displayed at the Meta Connect developer conference, in Menlo Park, California.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Letter of the Day | Beware of the invisible camera!

THE EDITOR, Madam: Wearable cameras or smart glasses are rapidly moving from novelty to normality. Smart glasses can take photographs, record conversations, and interpret what the wearer sees.
Tina-Gay Wilson, financial advisor at Sagicor, says yes to a red slip dress.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Something Extra | Friday

Those who dared to follow the Touch of Red theme created quite a splash at the Hennessy Made for More experience. Held at the S Hotel Kingston on Tuesday night, guests gathered poolside to indulge in…