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December 9, 2025
JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation supports Vincent HoSang Venture Competition
JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation has announced that it will be the gold sponsor of the Vincent HoSang UWI Venture Competition (UWIVC), hosted by the Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM).
December 9, 2025
Teenager who admitted to making false sexual assault complaint charged
Investigators in the St Catherine North police division have charged a 16-year-old girl with creating public mischief after she admitted in court that she lied about being sexually assaulted by a…
December 9, 2025
Entries open for EcoSpark innovation challenge for schools
The JPS Foundation and the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) have announced their collaboration this year, to stage the second annual Innovation Challenge for students islandwide. The…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | A strategy for growth
The narrative is regularly recited and celebrated. Since the 2010s, Jamaica has undergone a remarkable fiscal transformation. Debt has fallen from unsustainable heights, inflation has been tamed, and…
December 9, 2025
by Andre Williams
A war on drugs
“Cocaine is a major source of funding for the gangs in Jamaica.” That was the blunt assessment from a US administration official during a September 19 high-level briefing last Friday in Kansas City,…
December 9, 2025
by Erica Virtue
INTERDICTED
A junior resident at May Pen Hospital who contested the September 3 general election as a People’s National Party (PNP) candidate is scheduled to face disciplinary proceedings on Monday. The Southern…
December 9, 2025
by Livern Barrett
Keith Clarke’s family sues Gov’t
More than 15 years after businessman Keith Clarke was fatally shot during a joint police-military operation, his family has filed a lawsuit alleging that security forces stormed the wrong house during…
December 9, 2025
by Jovan Johnson
Costly lift-off
Jamaica’s three domestic aerodromes – Negril, Ken Jones, and Tinson Pen – together with Ian Fleming International Airport (IFIA), have accumulated nearly J$2 billion in maintenance, security, and…
December 9, 2025
Man admits in TV interview to killing and burying his parents
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A man admitted during a television interview to killing his parents and burying them in the backyard of their upstate New York home eight years ago, then was arrested as he left…