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A JN Foundation volunteer shows off some of the items inside the thrift shop established on the football field of the William Knibb Memorial High School last Sunday. The shop was one of the highlights of an event organised and hosted by FYI Consultancy Gro
December 27, 2025

Santa, stoves and second chances in Trelawny

It was not yet Christmas Eve, but it seemed like Grand Market came just a few days early for residents of Trelawny. From Martha Brae, Hague Settlement, Falmouth, and as far as Sherwood Content, they…
VM Group Chairman Michael McMorris (centre) cuts the ribbon to officially hand over a new two-bedroom home to Novia Russell (right) and her children (second to fourth right) Javon, Danique and Zaliyah. Also present are (from left) Kivette Silvera, executiv
December 27, 2025

VM, Food For The Poor deliver new home to St Bess family

A family in Myersville, St Elizabeth, has received a new two-bedroom home for the holidays, after Hurricane Melissa, through a partnership between VM Group and Food For The Poor. The home was…
Members of the CB Group’s ‘Do Good Crew’ donate essential supplies to the Hanover Infirmary.
December 27, 2025

CB Foods brings holiday cheer to Hanover Infirmary

The Hanover Infirmary, home to some of society’s most vulnerable, received a dose of compassion and celebration this holiday season. The initiative was led by Copperwood Pork’s production team and CB…
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…