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Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Alfred Dawes addresses a press conference on Tuesday as other People’s National Party officials look on.
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

Dawes presses Gov’t on testing capacity, clean-up failures amid rising disease risks

Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Alfred Dawes is warning that Jamaica could “pay with lives” if it fails to prepare for a major public-health crisis following the devastation caused by Hurricane…
Through Campus Elite, the student engagement network led by founder and CEO Sandré Malcom, university students mobilised quickly to support peers affected by Hurricane Melissa. Campus Elite volunteers became the backbone of the operation. From packaging s
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | Campus Elite rallies round affected students with help from Legend Beer

Century Aluminum’s executives, Eliezer Batista (second left) and Kenneth Calloway (centre), along with Jamalco equipment operator, Keon Sutherland (right), distribute tarpaulins to residents of Vineyards, St Elizabeth. They were part of a 30-member Jamal
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | Jamalco delivers aid to hurricane victims

Digicel representatives are joined by a student and parent in offloading relief packages to benefit parents of special needs students at the Catherine Hall Primary School. The handover took place at the Catherine Hall Primary School’s Special Education U
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | Digicel Foundation donates water tank to Catherine Hall Primary School

From left: Nurse Miller; Annalene Clarke-Christie, office manager; Keishawna Pinnock, assistant blood donor organiser, and Chevon Lewis, MPOWA brand manager at Wisynco Group Limited, share a moment at the official handover of 50 cases of MPOWA to the Natio
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | MPOWA partners with National Blood Bank to boost blood donors

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green (third right, front row), shakes hands with the GraceKennedy (GK) Group’s Head of General Insurance, Tammara Glaves-Hucey, during the symbolic handover of a $2.88 million insurance payout to 98 R
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | Young farmers thankful for GK Weather Protection Programme’s hurricane recovery support

From left: Perrin Gayle, CEO of NCB Foundation; Kathy Calderon, missions manager at Global Empowerment Mission (GEM); Thalia Lyn, chair of NCB Foundation and Lyn Family Trust; and Michael Capponi, founder and president of GEM, prepare relief packages for d
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | NCB Foundation, GEM mobilise Hurricane Melissa relief supplies

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December 9, 2025

Dwight Fletcher | Why is Jesus’ blood a big deal?

LAST WEEK we wrapped up a series on ‘Jesus Christ as Lord’. In it, we discussed how Jesus has secured the title of Lord, and this demands a response from His people. Not only do we confess with our…
Jimmy Chambers Cliff
December 9, 2025 by Adrian Frater

Jimmy Cliff crosses last river

WESTERN BUREAU: The dark clouds that hung over Somerton on Monday and the rains that soaked the quiet St James community felt like nature itself mourning the passing of its beloved son – reggae icon…