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December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

Holness hails ‘historic’ US$6.7b reconstruction package assembled by international financial bodies

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is describing as “historic” the US$6.7-billion reconstruction package assembled by five international financial bodies to help Jamaica rebuild following the…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness (left) with Chief of the Accompong Maroons in St Elizabeth, Richard Currie, during a visit to the community. Olivia Grange, minister of culture, gender, entertainment and sport, looks on.
December 9, 2025

JDF engineers to assist with rebuilding Accompong

Engineers from the Jamaica Defence Force will be assisting with repairs to damaged buildings in Accompong and surrounding areas in St Elizabeth, says Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness. Approximately 80…
Tropical Sugar Company Limited broke ground on Tuesday for a new state-of-the-art sugar manufacturing and renewable energy facility in Lionel Town, Clarendon.
December 9, 2025 by Olivia Brown

Clarendon residents hopeful as sugar factory breaks ground

When the gates of the historic Monymusk Sugar Factory in southern Clarendon closed years ago, many residents felt an era had ended and their futures had dimmed overnight. For generations, the factory…
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

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

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

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

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

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…