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Real Madrid new coach Alvaro Arbeloa attends a press conference at the club’s Valdebebas training ground in Madrid yesterday.
January 14, 2026

Arbeloa says he won’t try to be the new Mourinho at Real Madrid

MADRID (AP): Álvaro Arbeloa won’t try to be the new José Mourinho at Real Madrid. The former player spoke publicly for the first time as the new Madrid coach yesterday, saying he has a lot of Mourinho…
Tunisia’s Ali Abdi (left) argues with Nigeria’s Calvin Bassey and Alex Iwobi (right) during the Africa Cup of Nations group C football match in Fez, Morocco, on Saturday, December 27, 2025.
January 14, 2026

Iwobi pulling the strings for Super Eagles

RABAT, Morocco (AP): Nigeria midfielder Alex Iwobi is enjoying his moment at the Africa Cup of Nations after helping his team to the semi-finals with key passes for the team’s star forwards. Victor…
Sherfane Rutherford in action for the Pretoria Capitals in the Betway South Africa T20.
January 14, 2026

Rutherford’s good form carries Capitals top of the table

CENTURION, South Africa (CMC): Sherfane Rutherford’s second consecutive Player-of-the-Match performance helped to seal the Pretoria Capitals’ comfortable 53-run victory over MI Cape Town and send them…
Danielle Williams
January 14, 2026

Williams claims early world indoor lead in 60m hurdles

SOUTH CAROLINA, United States (CMC): Jamaica’s Danielle Williams set a world-leading indoor time in the women’s 60-metre hurdles on her way to winning gold at the Clemson Invitational indoor track and…
West Indies U19 batsman Shamar Apple (right) celebrates a century against Japan, while Tanez Francis, who also scored a hundred, looks on during an ICC U19 Cricket World Cup warm-up game at the United Cricket Ground in Windhoek, Namibia, yesterday.
January 14, 2026

Apple, Francis centuries lead young West Indies demolition of Japan

WINDHOEK, Namibia (CMC): Shamar Apple and Tanez Francis scored contrasting centuries as West Indies Under-19s readied themselves for the ICC Cricket World Cup with a devastating 229-run win over…
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January 14, 2026

Documents missing for $521m in contracts, UHWI admits tax-exempt import abuse

The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) failed to provide procurement documentation for 51 contracts valued at more than $521 million to auditors from the Auditor General’s Department,…
UHWI CEO Fitzgerald Mitchell, who is on three months’ leave.
January 14, 2026 by Edmond Campbell

Audit reveals procurement failures at UHWI

Exposing a glaring practice by the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), of utilising a retrospective process to validate procurements, Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis says this action by…
Jamaica’s women cricket team in action.
January 14, 2026 by Lennox Aldred

Jamaica start T20 Blaze with loss to Leeward Islands

Before a ball was bowled in the Cricket West Indies T20 Blaze competition, Jamaica women’s head coach Shane Brooks said the two-week preparation for the tournament was not enough, and that lack of…
Delroy Chuck, minister of justice and constitutional affairs, notes that in the event of the death of the witnesses to a will – or if they can no longer be located – a will should be rewritten.
January 14, 2026 by Karen Madden

Parliament weighs tripled juror stipend amid backlog crisis

Nearly two years after Justice Minister Delroy Chuck announced a 200 per cent increase in the stipend paid to Jamaicans who report for jury duty, the long-promised change has been formally brought to…