General News Releases.
Users of the Junior Library section of the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library can now do so more comfortably, thanks to extensive refurbishing and beautification work undertaken by the VM Group for its 2023 Labour Day project. The Labour Day project builds on a broader partnership between the VM Foundation and the Jamaica Library …
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The VM Group 2021 President’s Awardee, Tiffany-Joy Smith, has collaborated with the VM Foundation, to launch a Foster A Child fundraising project, in partnership with the For the Child (FTC) Foster Care Programme, aimed at boosting the national foster care programme. The project seeks to raise approximately $300,000 annually, to offset costs associated with providing …
VM Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer Samantha Charles (right) presents a symbolic cheque to Special Olympics Jamaica (SOJ) swimmers (in pool, from left) Andrew Bartholomew, Andrew McIntosh, Tasheanna Bailey and Kadian Ingleton; and (background, from left) SOJ Executive Director Coleridge Howell and swim coaches Marissa Hayman, Alecia Newman Walsh and Brittany Williams at the University of …
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VM Investments Limited (VMIL) said it took a five per cent stake in Coldbush Organics — a Jamaican chocolate company based in St Thomas. The investment was made in October 2018, but the VMIL only made the deal public earlier this week. It did not state the value of the deal. However, it noted the …
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VM Investments Limited (VMIL) has today acquired 135,483,871 units of Kingston Properties (KPREIT) shares for a combined consideration of $1,050,000,000. This transaction increases VMIL’s stake in KPREIT to a total of twenty-three per cent (23%), making KPREIT an associate company of VMIL. This is in line with the VM Group Vision of being a leading …
VM Group has announced the establishment of a new business structure, with the launch of The VM Group Limited, a mutual holding company and parent to the newly formed VM Financial Group Limited as well as VM Innovations Limited. The announcement follows VM Members’ overwhelming vote of support to restructure the organisation at a specially …
VM heralds restructured business, announces key leadership appointments Read More »
Jamaica’s most decorated track and field athlete, Veronica Campbell-Brown, CD has joined the Board of Directors of the VM Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the VM Group. Campbell-Brown, who is an eight-time Olympic medalist has won more than 46 medals at international athletic events, earning the distinction of being the first athlete ever to win …
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The VM Foundation recently collaborated with the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) in support of a series of personal development and financial literacy sessions for adolescent mothers. This was part of activities to celebrate and empower the 2022 cohort of the WCJF’s Finishing School Programme for Adolescent Mothers. The programme, established in 1978, is …
KINGSTON, Jamaica: The VM Foundation has made a $100,000 donation to support the Missing Children’s Support Programme, an initiative of Hear the Children’s Cry, a non-governmental organisation (NGO). Speaking at a recent handover ceremony at VM’s Corporate Offices in Kingston, CEO of the VM Foundation, Samantha Charles, commended the stellar work that has been done …
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The VM Foundation recently closed out its Parents’ Month celebrations with a Financial Wellness and Parenting Expo at the St. Jago Park Health Centre. The event, which saw users of the clinic benefitting from the expertise of VM’s financial services specialists and parenting professionals from various government agencies, was executed through the Adopt-a-Clinic programme, a …
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