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December 9, 2025
Brathwaite included in Pride squad for Super50 Cup
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): FORMER WEST Indies Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite has been named in a 14-man Barbados Pride squad for next month’s CG United Super50 Cup in Trinidad and Tobago. However, no…
December 9, 2025
Hello, mi neighbour! | Activate the good Jamaican spirit of neighbourliness!
Hello, mi neighbour! Hope you fared well during the passage of Melissa. Without a pause, it’s time to let our kindness shine again! Can always count on us, as a people, to shower kindness on our…
December 9, 2025
Over 170 communities affected by Hurricane Melissa across six most severely impacted parishes - McKenzie
More than 170 communities across the six most devastated parishes islandwide have been moderately or severely affected by the passage of Hurricane Melissa. The disclosure was made by Minister of…
December 9, 2025
Don Anderson | Windies cricket: Infrastructure a new word for application
As a loyal West Indies cricket fan who stays up day and night to watch our games wherever they are played, I am, like many others, very distressed to find us near or at the bottom rung of the…
December 9, 2025
by Gregory Bryce
Time, finances force Jamaica away for first home FIBA qualifier
PAULTON GORDON, president of the Jamaica Basketball Association (JBA), said the country was unable to host its first home game in the FIBA Basketball World Cup Americas Qualifiers because of…
December 9, 2025
India make final on the back of record run chase
NAVI MUMBAI, India (AP): JEMIMAH RODRIGUES scored a scintillating century on home soil as India beat defending champions Australia by five wickets to reach the final of the Women’s Cricket World Cup…
December 9, 2025
Letter of the Day | Jamaica will rise again
THE EDITOR, Madam: As Jamaicans prepared earnestly for Hurricane Melissa, many were faced with a painful choice. Some had to place hurricane preparations above paying their bills, a decision that…
December 9, 2025
Key infrastructure extensively damaged by Hurricane Melissa, will take awhile to restore full power - JPS
The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) says key infrastructure across its power delivery network has been extensively damaged by Hurricane Melissa and that it will take a while to rebuild and restore power…
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | When tears are not enough
I can best express my pain by using the first words that come to me. And of course, it’s all about the destruction left behind by the passage of the monster hurricane, Melissa. The first words, quite…