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Walter Pimenta, executive vice-president for commercial and new payment flows at Mastercard LAC.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

Mastercard unveils SME card with built-in cybersecurity solutions

MIAMI, FLORIDA: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are set to gain stronger protection in the digital economy with Mastercard’s enhanced SME…
An INDECOM investigator at a shooting scene.
December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

Police record 20+ fatal shootings for 12 straight months

For 12 consecutive months, from December 2024 to November 2025, the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) says Jamaica recorded 20 or more police fatal shootings, with December 2025…
Angella Bennett, JTB regional director for Canada.
December 9, 2025 by Neil Armstrong

Harmonies of Hope hurricane benefit concert for Canada next week

TORONTO: The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) is throwing its full support behind Harmonies of Hope, a star-studded benefit concert set for December 10 at Toronto’s Meridian Arts Centre, as the island…
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December 9, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

‘I just need my money’

A Kingston-based shipping entrepreneur is demanding answers from Scotiabank Jamaica after more than two months of what he describes as an unexplained $10-billion hold on his personal and business…
George Williams, a schizophrenic who spent more than 50 years in prison without a trial.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

$120m impasse

A legal squabble is brewing over the $120 million the Supreme Court ordered the Government to pay George Williams, the mentally disabled man who languished in prison for nearly 50 years – or his…
Donna-Lee Donaldson, who was last seen on July 11, 2022.
December 9, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Maitland says Donaldson left apartment after row

Constable Noel Maitland told the police that Donna-Lee Donaldson walked out of his Chelsea Manor apartment in July 2022 after an argument about a photo of his child’s mother on the wall and his threat…
File photo.
December 9, 2025

PEP prep under threat as Hague Primary waits for infirmary relocation

Dameian Elvin, principal of Hague Primary and Infant School in Trelawny, says his hands are tied regarding the resumption of classes at the institution, confirming that a post-Hurricane Melissa…
Tavic Thomas, formerly of Belmont Academy in Westmoreland and now a student at Old Harbour High School in St Catherine.
December 9, 2025 by Erica Virtue

Schools rekindling hope

Old Harbour and Greater Portmore high schools in St Catherine have become the new homes for several students displaced by Hurricane Melissa, which devastated sections of the island in late October,…
Park Lane, off Red Hills Road in St Andrew, was the scene of another murder on Sunday.
December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

Park Lane on edge after 50-y-o woman gunned down

Fifty-year-old Janet Baker was shot and killed in a drive-by attack on Park Lane, off Red Hills Road in St Andrew, late Sunday, sending fresh shock waves through a community long battle-scarred by…