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Paul Elliott, CEO, VM Building Society, delivers remarks at a diaspora forum in Florida in April.
December 9, 2025

VMBS relocates New York office

VM Building Society (VMBS) has relocated its New York Representative Office to 2700 Church Avenue, in the heart of Flatbush, Brooklyn. This new, larger space, which is set to officially open on…
Grace Lyons, founder and music director of Heritage Singers Canada.
December 9, 2025 by Neil Armstrong

Heritage Singers Canada archival collection now accessible

Grace Lyons, the founder and music director of Heritage Singers Canada, is overjoyed that the Heritage Singers Canada archival donation is now housed in the Clara Thomas Archives and Special…
Don-Juanique Gardener (right), crash survivor, handed over medical equipment to the St Ann’s Bay Hospital on October 16. Receiving the donation are from left: Dr Tanya Hamilton-Johnson, senior medical officer at the St Ann’s Bay Hospital; Debby-Ann Hen
December 9, 2025

Crash survivor donates medical equipment to hospital

Over a decade later, Don-Juanique Gardener is using his second chance at life to give back to the hospital that helped save his life after a near-fatal crash in St Ann. The JN Bank merchant…
Nurse Rod Salaysay plays guitar for patient Richard Hoang in the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health in San Diego, California, on September 30, 2025.
December 9, 2025

Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps…
Delroy Williams (left), principal of Iona High, delivers the keynote address at the Nurses Association of Jamaica’s (NAJ’s) 55th Island Conference at the Moon Palace Hotel in Ocho Rios, St Ann, recently. Listening on are (from left): Dawn Marie Richard
December 9, 2025

Growth & Jobs | Nurses power economies

STAKEHOLDERS ACROSS the education, finance and health sectors have issued a collective call to recognise nurses as critical to national productivity and economic growth, urging stronger investment in…
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford visitor Sheila Garciacwears before visiting a patient at the hospital in Palo Alto, California, in October 2009.
December 9, 2025

During cold and flu season, the youngest kids really are the germiest

Forget colourful leaves. Any caregiver knows that the real signs of fall are kids with coughs, sneezes and sniffles. Autumn marks the start of respiratory virus season, when colds, flu and other bugs…
Naldy Edwards (left) and Donovan Edwards, coffee farmers in Mount Airy, St Andrew, express concerns about the fate of their unpicked coffee cherries in the field if Melissa hits the island as a tropical storm or hurricane this weekend.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

Mount Airy coffee farmers rush harvesting ahead of storm

The approaching Tropical Storm Melissa has forced coffee farmers in Mount Airy, St Andrew, to speed up the harvesting of their coffee cherries in an attempt to minimise potential damage from the…
Information Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon chats with Daryl Vaz, minister of energy and transport, at a special press briefing on Tropical Storm Melissa at Jamaica House in St Andrew on Thursday.
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

State bodies, partners ramp up activities as Melissa approaches

The Government says it is ramping up its preparation efforts as Tropical Storm Melissa approaches Jamaica, with various state agencies and ministries working to ensure that essential services remain…
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December 9, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Court blocks JCA’s plan to exclude brokers, importers from goods inspections

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) cannot exclude customs brokers, importers, owners, or their agents from participating in the inspection of imported goods under its…