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Rohan Service (left), president of the Optimist Club of North St Andrew, and Sidoney Gordon (right) of The Giving Circle, joined Roshane Reid-Koomson (centre), executive director of the Jamaica Cancer Society, for a photo during a recent donation handover
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | Optimist Club, The Giving Circle donate $160,000 to support mammograms for underserved women

Dr Leahcim Semaj shares lens time with Round Hill Hotel and Villas managing director, Josef Fortsmayr, during one of his mindspa workshops for staff at the Montego Bay resort.
December 9, 2025 by Janet Silvera

Round Hill rebuilds staff ahead of reopening

WESTERN BUREAU: Five weeks after Hurricane Melissa tore through western Jamaica, Round Hill Hotel and Villas is preparing to reopen its doors, but not before first rebuilding something far more…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness, shaking hands with Chief of the Accompong Maroons in St Elizabeth, Richard Currie, during a visit to the community on Sunday, November 30. Looking on is Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange.
December 9, 2025

JDF engineers to assist with rebuilding in Accompong

Engineers from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) will be assisting with repairs to damaged buildings in Accompong and surrounding areas in St Elizabeth, says Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness. …
Relief supplies donated by CITGO Petroleum Corporation arrived in Kingston aboard the vessel Pyxis Lamda on November 13. The shipment, received by the Jamaica Defence Force and the Jamaican Red Cross, was handled by local shipping agent, R.S. Gamble Ltd. T
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | CITGO Petroleum donates to hurricane relief efforts

Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) Training Manager, Alonzo Mothersill (left), demonstrates an emergency procedure on a child mega code, during the November 26 handover of equipment donated by CHASE Fund at the HFJ’s Beechwood Avenue location. Observing (
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | CHASE Fund donates equipment to HFJ

December 9, 2025

Hello mi neighbour | The benefits of kindness

DOES THIS mean anything to you? The body processes food through ingestion, digestion, absorption and elimination. Ingestion begins in the mouth, where food is broken down by teeth and saliva. It is…
Aventa Jamaica Limited has completed a three-phased relief outreach following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, delivering essential support to pharmacies and communities across the parishes of St Elizabeth, Westmoreland and St James. The outrea
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | Aventa Jamaica delivers relief packages to support pharmacies in storm-affected areas

Britain's David Lammy.
December 9, 2025

UK government plans to scrap some jury trials in an attempt to clear court backlog

LONDON (AP) — The right to trial by jury will be pared back in Britain in an attempt to clear a backlog of cases clogging up the justice system, the government announced Tuesday. Justice Secretary…
Digicel Foundation Chair, Joy Clark (right), presents a relief care package to representatives from Ready to Sign, Deaf Sports Jamaica, and the Jamaica Deaf Youth Advocacy as part of their donation drive to support members of the deaf community with much-n
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | Digicel Foundation donates to the deaf