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Jamaica Olympic Association President Christopher Samuda
01 Feb, 2026 0

JOA wants Jamaican ‘heatwave’ at Winter Olympics

Christopher Samuda, president of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), says they are hoping the island can bring the heat to the ice at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games this month.…
Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan kisses the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after defeating Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus to win the women’s singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, yesterday.
01 Feb, 2026 0

Rybakina beats Sabalenka to claim second Grand Slam

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): Elena Rybakina finally won her second Grand Slam title with a victory over top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at the Australian Open on Saturday, and it was something of a testament…
01 Feb, 2026 0

Controversy, drama highlight road to final

Jamaica College bounced back in fine style to defeat St George’s College on the road in their second ISSA Urban Under-19 schoolboy basketball semi-final game on Friday, evening the series at 1-1 and…
Dr Kanchana Coore
01 Feb, 2026 0

DEATHBED CONFIDANTE

By the time patients reach the final stretch of their lives, the questions they bring to Dr Kanchana Bandara Coore are rarely medical alone. They are about children who will be left behind, marriages…
Nicholas Neufville
01 Feb, 2026 0

Calabar old boy establishes fund in honour of slain coach

Calabar High School’s proud tradition of excellence in track and field is set to receive a significant and sustained boost with the launch of the Nicholas Neufville Fund, an initiative spearheaded by…
A person holds a sign, during an anti-ICE demonstration, ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, yesterday.
01 Feb, 2026 0

Demonstrators in Milan protest ICE unit at Winter Olympics

MILAN (AP): Hundreds of demonstrators gathered yesterday in Milan to protest the deployment of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during the upcoming Winter Olympics, unbothered by…
Sixty-eight-year-old Willie Rowe points to a section of land that he bought from the National Housing Trust and is now fenced off by another state entity.
01 Feb, 2026 0

‘I can’t even walk on my own land’

A 68-year-old man’s lifelong dream of owning a home is in jeopardy amid claims that the Ministry of Housing has encroached on his property in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Fighting back tears, Willie…
Two young children carefully cross downed cable wires on their way home from school in Rose Hall, St James, last Friday.
01 Feb, 2026 0

Billion-Dollar Collapse

WESTERN BUREAU: Three months after Hurricane Melissa struck western Jamaica, large sections of the community cable network remain dark, leaving operators to confront an estimated $1.4 billion in…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness.
01 Feb, 2026 0

Holness seeks update on FID probe

Lawmakers should consider amending the laws governing public bodies with investigative powers by including provisions to protect citizens from reputational damage, legal experts have suggested. The…