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Lauren Mahfood, marketing manager at Trade Winds Citrus Limited (second left), and Peter McConnell, managing director of Trade Winds Citrus Limited (right), share a moment with members of the Tru Juice Football Club following the formal handover of $7 mill
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Corporate Hands | Tru-Juice pumps $7 million into football club

The Biomedical Caledonia Laboratory team recently made a donation to charity organization, Food For The Poor (FFP) in support of the Hurricane Melissa relief efforts. Here, Marsha Burrell Rose (left), FFP’s development & marketing manager accepts the don
19 Feb, 2026 0

Corporate Hands | Biomedical Caledonia Laboratory donates relief supplies to Food For The Poor

Gail Moss-Solomon, general counsel & chief corporate secretary (left) and Kenny-Dee Bryan, human resource officer, Consumer Brands Limited, and GK Earth365 Ambassador (second right) join students from the Jessie Ripoll Primary School in a read-aloud of the
19 Feb, 2026 0

Corporate Hands | GraceKennedy Foundation celebrates National Play Day with Jessie Ripoll Primary

Caribbean Cement Company Limited Social Impact Specialist, Jerome Cowans (second right), shares a photo opportunity with the St. Elizabeth Municipal Cooperation Deputy Inspector of the Poor, Jermaine Porter (right), Vice Principal in charge of administrati
19 Feb, 2026 0

Corporate Hands | Caribbean Cement Company Limited donates textbooks to schools in St Elizabeth

Charmaine Heslop-DaCosta (second right), senior vice president, People Operations, Jamaica Public Service (JPS), and Sophia Lewis (second left), Head, JPS Foundation, stand with Myung Ho Kwon (left), chief executive officer, EWP, and Damian Obiglio (right)
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Corporate Hands | Jamaica Public Service Company shareholders assist employees impacted by Hurricane Melissa

Presenters at the ‘Advancing the Circular Economy’ Workshop, staged at the Caribbean Maritime University on Tuesday. Among them is Eleanor Jones (seated, first from left), head of Environmental Solutions Limited, which organised the event.
19 Feb, 2026 0

Earth Today | Environmental Solutions Limited offers waste reduction model

JAMAICA IS being encouraged to accelerate its transition away from the ‘take-make-dispose’ model of a linear economy that sees products flooding the island’s waste disposal sites long before the end…
Inger Andersen
19 Feb, 2026 0

Earth Today | ‘Global environmental cooperation alive’

THE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has insisted that international environmental cooperation is alive and kicking – deserving of financial support and continued political will, in the…
A policeman approaches the house on Marlin Way in Braeton, Portmore in St Catherine yesterday, where a woman and her daughter were reportedly attacked by a man believed to be of unsound mind. The daughter was rushed to the hospital while the mother died in
18 Feb, 2026 0

FEAR TURNS FATAL

Shock, grief, and simmering anger have engulfed residents of Marlin Way in Braeton, Portmore, after a 63-year-old mother was brutally chopped to death inside her home. It was an attack neighbours say…
Sophie Grizzle-Roumel, hotelier at Charela Inn in Negril, Westmoreland.
18 Feb, 2026 0

‘Death knell for small hotels’

WESTERN BUREAU: As Jamaica’s tourism sector continues its post-Hurricane Melissa recovery, small hotel operators are warning that new tax measures slated for implementation in April 2027 could…