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From left: Deidre Parchment, finance manager at Food For The Poor Jamaica; Marsha Burrell-Rose, Manager – marketing, PR and missions at Food For The Poor; Ann Marie Walters, managing director for Unicomer Jamaica; Jane Cui, sales manager, Caribbean Terri
December 18, 2025

Corporate Hands | Courts and TCL donate smart tvs to support hurricane recovery

Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Krystal Lee (centre), thanks Jamalco’s Managing Director, Marvin Jackson (left), for the company’s donation toward the renovation of the A&E Waiting Area at the Lionel Town Hospital. Sharing the
December 18, 2025

Corporate Hands | Jamalco donates to reno of Lionel Town Hospital A&E waiting area

In the spirit of the season, Elhydro Limited joined forces with the JUTC to bring Christmas cheer to rural school bus drivers impacted by Hurricane Melissa. Vice President, Major Paul Brown, presented Elhydro Limited’s special contribution to Anita Ramb
December 18, 2025

Corporate Hands | Elhydro Limited, JUTC bring cheer to rural school bus drivers

Lora Rochester, vice-president of business development and risk management at Canopy Insurance Limited, shares a prize with a child at the SOS Children’s Village after he solved a tricky riddle during the Christmas visit.
December 18, 2025

Corporate Hands | Canopy Insurance Limited brings Christmas cheer to children

The William Knibb Memorial High School in Falmouth, Trelawny, suffered significant damage during the passage of Hurricane Melissa on October 28.
December 18, 2025

Melissa opens engineering gap

RESPECTED PHYSICIST, Professor Michael Taylor, has flagged for attention what he says is Jamaica’s now exposed engineering gap, following the passage of Hurricane Melissa. As Jamaicans come to terms…
From left: Rueanna Haynes, director of Climate Analytics Caribbean; Abigail Ellis, Grenada’s national coordinator, Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN); and Dr Spencer Thomas, Grenada’s ambassador and Special Envoy for Multilateral Environmental
December 18, 2025

German-Caribbean climate talks spotlight urgent need for ambition, adaptation

REGIONAL AND international climate leaders convened in Grenada for the third edition of the German-Caribbean Climate Talks earlier this month, focusing on increasing ambition and accelerating…
Jason Russell.
December 17, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

Russell: MoBay faced no food challenge after Melissa

WESTERN BUREAU: Jason Russell, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says that despite the widespread anxiety in the days following the passage of Hurricane Melissa, Montego…
Hamish Campbell, outgoing assistant commissioner at the Independent Commission of Investigations.
December 17, 2025 by Livern Barrett

HAMISH’S REGRET

In 2013, the year Hamish Campbell took up the post of assistant commissioner at the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), Jamaica recorded 258 police fatal shootings. Twelve years later,…
Jean-Pierre Rhone.
December 17, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Forgiving mom wanted shorter sentence for son’s killer

Despite the brutal killing of her son, Cerita Rhone says she forgave his killer years ago and had hoped the court would impose a lighter sentence even after he was handed 30 years’ imprisonment. “I…