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Linvern Wright, the president of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools .
December 9, 2025 by Erica Virtue

Bolt’s alma mater among hundreds of schools hit hard by Melissa

The full weight of the damage to schools in the parishes ravaged by Hurricane Melissa could be known this week as officials from the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information get a better…
Romario Shepherd on the go during his innings of 49 off 34 balls against New Zealand in the third T20I yesterday.
December 9, 2025

Windies falter at the death again as Kiwis take series lead

NELSON, New Zealand (CMC): For the second straight match, New Zealand held their nerves to thwart another remarkable West Indies fightback and take the third T20I by nine runs in another thrilling…
Khadija Shaw (left) celebrates after scoring the winner for Manchester City against Everton yesterday.
December 9, 2025

Shaw nets winner to send Man City top of WSL

LIVERPOOL, England (CMC): Jamaican international Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw’s second-half strike propelled Manchester City to a 2-1 victory over Everton and sent them top of the table in the Women’s Super…
Minister of Local Government, Desmond McKenzie (2nd left) and Mayor of Falmouth, Collen Gager (right front) tour the town of Falmouth with other technocrats in the government and vendors displaced by Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Janet Silvera

McKenzie: Falmouth devastation as bad as Black River

WESTERN BUREAU: The devastation in Falmouth, Trelawny, rivals that of Black River, St Elizabeth, according to Minister of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie, who described…
A section of Bog Hole under water in Clarendon.
December 9, 2025 by Olivia Brown

Clarendon catastrophe

A catastrophe. That is how Member of Parliament (MP) for Clarendon Northern Wavell Hinds described the trail of destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Melissa on October 28. The Category 5…
Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James
December 9, 2025 by Adrian Frater

Hospital nightmare

Western Bureau: As the after effects of Hurricane Melissa continues to take a heavy toll on the lives of residents in western Jamaica, nurses at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St…
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro looks on prior to a plenary session at the COP30 United Nations Climate Summit, in Belem, Brazil on November 6, 2025.
December 9, 2025

EU, Latin America and Caribbean nations hold summit overshadowed by US military operation

Representatives of European, Latin American and Caribbean nations on Sunday began a two-day summit in Colombia to try to strengthen ties amid divisions over the United States military operation…
Commander Alvin Gayle, director general of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | ODPEM in risky times

Unless the recommended restructuring of the government’s disaster management system was only for a change of its top leader, last week’s shake-up at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency…
Professor Michael Taylor
December 9, 2025

Melissa is ‘canary in the coal mine’

Scientists from The University of the West Indies (UWI) have contributed to a new international rapid analysis which confirms that human-induced climate change made Hurricane Melissa more intense and…