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December 9, 2025
Orville Taylor | John Crows to the rescue
Sunday is a day of rest for them, because the popular Jamaican folk song reports; our turkey vultures, “John Crow, say him no wuk pon Sunday.” Her logic might sound as if sucked into the eye of…
December 9, 2025
Garth Rattray | What if Hurricane Melissa landed in Kingston?
Category 5 hurricane Melissa was described as “catastrophic” as it approached our shores, and then rapidly transformed from a tropical storm into a monstrous hurricane packing wind gusts of up to…
December 9, 2025
Woman killed in St Thomas hit and run
The Bath police in St Thomas are searching for the driver of a motor car who failed to stop after their vehicle killed a 68-year-old woman on Thursday. The victim has been identified as Paulette…
December 9, 2025
Bellingham, Foden back in England squad
LONDON, England (AP): Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden were recalled yesterday by England coach Thomas Tuchel for the team’s upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Serbia and Albania. The attacking…
December 9, 2025
‘The numbers are insane’
MANCHESTER, England (AP): It all started on September 2, 2007, in a Spanish fourth-tier game against Premia in front of around 2,000 fans. Eighteen years later, Pep Guardiola will reach 1,000 games…
December 9, 2025
Washington women’s GK Hamant dies at 21 after kidney cancer battle
SEATTLE (AP): Mia Hamant, a goalkeeper (GK) for Washington’s women’s soccer team who helped the Huskies reach the semifinals of the Big Ten tournament as a junior, has died. She was 21. Hamant died on…
December 9, 2025
JMDA says CRH in 'devastated state' following Hurricane Melissa
The Jamaica Medical Doctors' Association (JMDA) has written to Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton requesting an urgent meeting with his ministry amid what it said are statements by officials…
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December 9, 2025
US airlines cancel 1,000 flights while complying with shutdown order
Anxious travellers across the US felt a bit of relief Friday as airlines mostly stayed on schedule while still cutting more than 1,000 flights largely because of the government shutdown. Plenty of…
December 9, 2025
by Sashana Small
After the flood, Westgreen battles mud
As he trudged through thick mud covering the roadway outside his home in Westgreen, Montego Bay, 77-year-old John Lee paused to scratch his face. The retired firefighter, his boots caked with muck,…