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Garnett Reid, president of the Small Business Association of Jamaica.
December 16, 2025

‘Unconscionable’

President of the Small Businesses Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) Garnett Reid says Jamaicans should strenuously push back against a seven per cent increase in electricity rate approved by the Office of…
Mickel Jackson, executive director of JFJ
December 16, 2025 by Corey Robinson

JFJ: Consensual sex between minors should not be a crime

Sexual offences, particularly consensual sexual intercourse with a person under 16, make up the majority of cases referred to Jamaica’s Child Diversion Programme, launched in 2020 to redirect children…
Rabbi Yaakov Raskin.
December 16, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

‘Light will overcome darkness’

WESTERN BUREAU: Rabbi Yaakov Raskin, director of Chabad Jamaica Limited, has condemned what he described as a “despicable” and hate-driven attack on the global Jewish community, following a deadly…
Anthony Smith, CEO at the RJRGLEANER Communications Group, gives remarks at the RJRGLEANER Honour Awards ceremony held on July 1 at the TVJ studios.
December 16, 2025

Smith lauded for integrity, innovation, and staff-centred leadership

Anthony Smith is being hailed as a compassionate media leader whose stewardship inspired his colleagues and fostered an environment of innovation. Smith, who was chief executive officer of the…
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December 16, 2025 by Gareth Davis Sr

Deslandes calls for vigilance after reported rape at CASE

Passley Gardens, Portland: President of the College of Agriculture, Science, and Education (CASE), Derrick Deslandes, has condemned Sunday’s alleged rape of a female student by unknown assailants on…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness.
December 16, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

Holness stresses Petersfield High must reopen January

WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness on Saturday told displaced hurricane survivors sheltering at Petersfield High in Westmoreland that the Government is committed to relocating them to…
Coreen Smith, founder of Perfecting Savannah’s Craft 
December 16, 2025

Growth & Jobs | Things Jamaican™ urges shoppers to buy local, rebuild with Christmas campaign

‘Yaad’ or ‘Home’ is special to Jamaicans. As a structure, it stores the key memories of their lives. But the country has become a special place to the world, and many want a piece of it – experienced…
From left: Dr Wes Hall, Chancellor of the University of Toronto; Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett; and Dr Donette Chin‑Loy Chang, Chancellor of Toronto Metropolitan University, at the Harmonies of Hope relief concert last month.
December 16, 2025

Over J$340 million raised in Canada for hurricane relief

Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, is praising the Canadian diaspora for what he described as extraordinary leadership and generosity in raising more than CDN$3 million ($348 million) for…
Janet Richards (right), founder of the Janet Richards Foundation, in a group shot with representatives from the Kingston-based law firm DunnCox during a handover of relief items to residents of Farm Heights, St James, last Thursday, following the passage o
December 16, 2025 by Christopher Thomas

Janet Richards Foundation, DunnCox unite to support Farm Heights with much-needed supplies

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Farm Heights in St James last Thursday got a major boost in their bid to rebound from the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, thanks to the supplies they received…