Hagley Park Road Fire, photo credits, Garfield Robinson Keith Trowers built his auto parts business over 30 years. Last Thursday, he watched it burn. Standing in front of Ketro Trading Company on Hagley Park Road, having managed to pull a few items from the building before the fire reached it, the managing director spoke with the kind of quiet devastation that follows a loss that outpaces language. Millions gone. Seven employees out of work. "It's a new beginning," he said — though clearly,...

A woman at the hospital worrying about the condition of her spouse while calculating the finances required for his care. The Human Costs of Fire On May 27, 2026, just before 9 AM, welding work was being carried out on an armoured truck at a garage on South Camp Road in Kingston, adjacent to Guardsman Group-Beryllium Limited headquarters. Four men went to work that morning. A garage manager. A member of the operations team. An air conditioning technician. A welder. They had mortgages and...

Hotel Fire Safety Checklist that Saves Lives A fire alarm at 2:47 AM is not a management problem. It's a human one. Your guests are asleep in unfamiliar rooms. Some don't speak the language. Some can't move quickly. Some will panic. Some won't believe it's real. And your staff — trained or not — will be the only thing standing between confusion and catastrophe. The properties that handle fire emergencies well don't get lucky. They get prepared. Here's what that preparation actually looks like...