Jamaica College, preseason favourites, and Excelsior High School, the darkhorses, will contest this season’s ISSA/WATA Manning Cup final after the two enjoyed similarly comfortable wins during yesterday’s semi-finals at the National Stadium....
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:13 AM
MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (CMC): West Indies assistant coach Floyd Reifer has issued a blunt assessment of his batting unit ahead of the decisive third and final Test against New Zealand, starting today at Bay Oval. Trailing 1-0 in the series...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:12 AM
Mount Maunganui, New Zealand (CMC): New Zealand have recalled spinner Ajaz Patel and wicketkeeper-batter Tom Blundell to their squad for the decisive third Test against the West Indies, starting today at Bay Oval. The changes come following a hard-...
Denbigh High walked away with the junior ISSA Rural Schoolgirl Netball Competition title after upsetting defending champions Holmwood Technical 31-26 in overtime. Holmwood, however, held on to their senior crown after fending off a strong challenge...
Herbert Morrison Technical High School’s under-19 team has bulldozed its way through the first round of the ISSA Schoolboy Basketball competition, with head coach Levar Rose expressing the need for increased dedication for players to improve. Rural...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:11 AM
Mona Preparatory once again demonstrated their dominance in youth sport, retaining the Jamaica Independent Schools Association Under-12 Netball Championship for the third consecutive year. The school also won the championship in 2023 and 2024. The...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:11 AM
DOHA, Qatar (AP): After finally ending their wait for a Champions League title, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) can finish the year by adding a first Intercontinental Cup trophy as well. PSG takes on Brazilian club Flamengo, the South American champions...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:11 AM
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): The Desert Vipers’ unbeaten run came to a dramatic, nailbiting end at the Zayed Cricket Stadium last night as the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders, with West Indians Andre Russell, Jason Holder, Sherfane Rutherford,...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:10 AM
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): The 2026 Indian Premier League auction delivered seismic shocks and strategic steals, headlined by Kolkata Knight Riders, making Australia’s Cameron Green the most expensive overseas player of all time while the...
The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) has restored service to 84 per cent of its customers seven weeks after the passage of Hurricane Melissa and with the Government’s sign-off on a US$150-million loan to the utility company that is intended to...
With Christmas lights twinkling and the season of goodwill in full swing, Bellevue Hospital Chief Executive Officer Suzette Buchanan is making a heartfelt appeal to families: take your loved ones home for the holidays. More than 400 patients who...
Despite the brutal killing of her son, Cerita Rhone says she forgave his killer years ago and had hoped the court would impose a lighter sentence even after he was handed 30 years’ imprisonment. “I forgave him long ago,” said Rhone, the mother of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some residents of Rose Heights, St James, have rejected the police’s account of an incident in which three men were shot and killed and two firearms allegedly seized in the community on Monday. The residents, who attempted to block...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:09 AM
A team of volunteer doctors and nurses from the United States and Canada recently delivered much-needed medical care to residents of St Ann still reeling from Hurricane Melissa. Mission is Possible, a disaster-relief charity, deployed 10 medical...
The first Zootopia definitely caught me by surprise. A Disney film about anthropomorphised animals can certainly be entertaining, but what I didn’t expect was how resonant it would be. Underneath the thick surface of animal puns and slick...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:09 AM
Salada Foods Jamaica Limited will close out 2025 with record revenues, a new sorrel-flavoured drink, and a US$302,000 (J$50-million) investment in an X-ray machine to improve the quality of its core coffee products. General Manager Tamii Brown said...
In 2013, the year Hamish Campbell took up the post of assistant commissioner at the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), Jamaica recorded 258 police fatal shootings. Twelve years later, as Campbell gets ready to go off into...
Western Bureau: Responding to the devastation left behind in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa, 17-year-old Spanish-Jamaican Kiran Moleon Lopez, a student at the American School of Madrid in Spain, has raised over $2 million to help provide supplies...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:08 AM
Since he started growing cannabis at 14, Mohamed Makhlouf has lived in the shadows, losing sleep while bracing for a knock on his door from authorities that could mean prison or his entire harvest confiscated. But after decades of operating in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Frome, Westmoreland, yesterday began accessing clean, drinkable water again with the installation of a community water filtration system at the Pan-Caribbean Sugar Company Limited (PCSC) factory. The system was provided...