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Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands (left) talks with his teammate Isack Hadjar of France after the qualifying session ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix in Sepang, Malaysia yesterday.
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Verstappen takes first pole position of the year

SEPANG, Malaysia (AP): Max Verstappen claimed his first pole position of the season at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia on a rare off day for Mercedes and Formula One standings leader Kimi…
The Moda Center, home of the Portland Trail Blazers, is seen before the NBA basketball team’s media day in Portland, Oregon on Monday, September 28.
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Trail Blazers announcer fired over posts made as a teenager

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP): The Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday fired newly hired television play-by-play broadcaster Braiden Bell after inappropriate social media posts he made as a teenager resurfaced…
Atlanta Dream guard Allisha Gray, second from left, is held back by teammates after no foul was called against the Washington Mystics during the second half in Game 2 of a WNBA basketball first-round playoff series on September 30 in Washington.
04 Oct, 2026 0

Liberty chase finals return

NEW YORK (AP): Breanna Stewart and the New York Liberty have become familiar with this stage in recent seasons. New York will make its third semi-final appearance in the past four WNBA playoff…
The port in Palisadoes from which the Mayberry/RJYC Marlin Tournament will take place.
04 Oct, 2026 0

Royal Jamaica Yacht Club, Mayberry set ambitious course

The Royal Jamaica Yacht Club (RJYC) is set to make waves in the sport-fishing community with the launch of the Mayberry/RJYC Marlin Tournament 2026. Tournament organiser Brandon Samms has outlined an…
CMC Roland ‘Patel’ Matthews, St Vincent and the Grenadines’ consul general to the United State, addressing the town hall meeting.
04 Oct, 2026 0

Consulate expands support for nationals in US

NEW YORK (CMC): St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Consul General to the United States Roland ‘Patel’ Matthews says the New York-based Consulate General is broadening its role beyond providing routine…
Home Affairs Minister Oneidge Walrond
04 Oct, 2026 0

Home Affairs Minister to meet top cop over SOCU head rape allegations

GEORGETOWN (CMC): Home Affairs Minister Oneidge Walrond says she will meet with Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken to determine how to address allegations of rape and threatening behaviour against…
04 Oct, 2026 0

Mickel Jackson | Let’s strike the balance on the Firearms Act

In 2022, Jamaicans for Justice submitted its proposals to the members of the Firearms Joint Select Committee. We raised concerns then, and again before the wider Parliament once the bill left the…
“I want the truth to be out; my story. People don’t stop to think or to try to know the type of person that they are talking about.”
04 Oct, 2026 0

Deported and defamed - Jamaican rejects US immigration authorities’ characterisation of ‘criminal history’, says charges were dismissed

A Jamaican man deported after 12 years in the United States is rejecting allegations by immigration authorities there that he is a violent criminal, insisting that serious criminal charges brought…
Book cover of Selected Poems Ian McDonald.
04 Oct, 2026 0

Editorial | Farewell, Ian McDonald!

It has been a season of death for towering West Indian figures. In July, Garfield Sobers, the greatest cricketer who ever lived, whether, as the calypsonian Mighty Sparrow declared in song, Sir…