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December 19, 2025

Letter of the Day | Queer agenda undermines moral and spiritual fabric

THE EDITOR, Madam: The recent launch of the Equality For All Foundation’s updated queer agenda highlights the group’s insistence on promoting values that contradict Jamaica’s moral and spiritual…
Letters
December 19, 2025

Children in media: To show or not to show their faces

THE EDITOR Madam: A man has reportedly been taken into custody after being intercepted with a six-year-old girl who was allegedly taken from her school in May Pen, Clarendon. While the swift…
US President Donald Trump speaks during an address to the nation.
December 19, 2025

Editorial | Engaging America

The United States hasn’t publicly provided a detailed account of its reasoning for placing visa restrictions on Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica over the operation of Citizenship by Investment (CBI)…
Dino Hinds, CEO of MFS Capital Partners Limited.
December 19, 2025

MFS Capital sheds Bar Central and Muse 360

Private equity firm MFS Capital Partners Limited has completed a strategic portfolio clean-up, disposing of two dormant subsidiaries — Muse 360 Integrated Limited and Bar Central Limited — as part of…
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Paul Simpson (left), founder of Cornerstone who was then a vice-president at Proven Wealth Ltd, beside Chairman and co-founder of Proven Management Peter Bunting, along with other executives, in 2011 at the listing of Proven on the Jamaica Stock Excha
December 19, 2025

Proven and Cornerstone to partner on projects

Proven Management Limited, investment manager of Proven Group Limited, announced plans to partner with Cornerstone Group, which indirectly holds the second largest stake in Proven through its…
Business
December 19, 2025

JSE tourism-linked companies reeling from Melissa impact – NCB Capital

Tourism-related companies listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) have been dealt a blow from Hurricane Melissa which will impact them well into 2026, according to large brokerage firm NCB Capital…
December 19, 2025

Rethinking the education process for today’s children

THE EDITOR, Madam: I read with great interest the absorbing article by Ruthlyn James in The Gleaner of Tuesday, December 16, 2025, in which she defined what student engagement assistants should be…
St Patrice Ennis, president of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions.
December 19, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Union leaders applaud move to make IDT awards digitally accessible

A prominent trade union leader has welcomed a recent move by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) to publish its awards and related industrial relations resources on its website, describing the…
Kingston College Board Chairman Michael Vaccianna (centre) is flanked by musician Paulette Bellamy (left) and French Ambassador to Jamaica Marianne Ziss at the Kingston College Chapel Choir’s Christmas concert.
December 19, 2025

Something Extra | Friday

The Kingston College Chapel Choir brought festive cheer with its annual Christmas concert, held last Sunday under the theme Tidings of Comfort and Joy, at the historic St Augustine Chapel. Under…