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Kira McKenzie, Miss Jamaica UK 2025
December 27, 2025

Leicester beauty Kira McKenzie is Miss Jamaica UK 2025

LONDON: Thirty-one-year-old singer Kira McKenzie, representing the parish of St Elizabeth, was crowned Miss Jamaica UK 2025 before an appreciative audience inside the Cavendish Banqueting Suite,…
Members of the Tourism Action Club of The Heinz Simonitsch School in Montego Bay (from left) D’Alexander Davis, Samir Vassell, vice-president, and Kevaughn Stewart, president, at the media brunch/luncheon at Iberostar hotel.
December 27, 2025 by Neil Armstrong

Students reflect on tourism in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa

A trio of high-school students attended the thanksgiving service for the start of the winter tourist season in Jamaica which was held at Burchell Memorial Baptist Church, and later the media brunch…
Authorities say the action forms part of an investigation into alleged fraudulent activity linked to SSL, which first came public in January 2023.
December 27, 2025

Security forces raid locations linked to former SSL officials

Members of the security forces are conducting search-and-seizure operations at the homes of senior figures linked to the collapsed investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL). Police are…
Hugh Croskery, founder of collapsed investment firm SSL, is seen behind a pickup truck being searched by police at a St Andrew residence on Wickham Avenue during a coordinated law-enforcement operation on December 27, 2025.
December 27, 2025

Update | SSL founder Hugh Croskery seen leaving St Andrew premises with police

Hugh Croskery, founder and former principal of collapsed investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), was seen leaving a St Andrew residence with the police following an operation on Saturday.…
The FID has previously disclosed that over 200 client accounts at SSL were impacted by alleged fraud and irregularities amounting to over US$30 million.
December 27, 2025

Former SSL executive expected to report to the police, says investigator

A former executive at Stocks & Securities Limited (SSL), the investment firm that collapsed amid an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud, has indicated that he will turn himself in to the…
Arsenal's Viktor Gyoekeres and Arsenal's Declan Rice celebrate after Brighton's Georginio Rutter scored an own goal during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Brighton and Hove Albion in London on December 27, 2025.
December 27, 2025

Arsenal stay on top as Man City apply pressure; Liverpool's resurgence continues

(AP) — Arsenal resisted a late fightback from Brighton on Saturday to keep hold of first place in the English Premier League football competition and stay ahead of Manchester City. City briefly held…
This is a locator map for Iran with its capital, Tehran.
December 27, 2025

Iran’s president says his country is in a 'full-scale' war with the West

(AP) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday his country is in a full-scale war with the United States, Israel and Europe ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s meeting…
The Nissan Tiida involved in a crash that left the driver, Christopher Clarke, dead after the vehicle crashed into a wall and overturned in the Rose Mount community of Montego Bay, St. James on December 27, 2025.
December 27, 2025

Man dies after car overturns in Montego Bay

A 46-year-old man from Green Pond in Montego Bay, St James has died following a motor vehicle crash in the Rose Mount community in the parish on Saturday morning. Reports are that the driver,…
Former SSL director Hugh Croskery (left) and ex-CEO Zachary Harding are being questioned by law enforcement authorities in connection with the ongoing investigation into alleged fraud at the collapsed Stocks and Securities Limited investment firm.
December 27, 2025

Update |Hugh Croskery, daughter Sarah Meany, and Zachary Harding being questioned in SSL probe

Former Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) director Hugh Croskery, his daughter Sarah Meany, and ex-CEO Zachary Harding are being questioned by authorities on "reasonable suspicion" of…