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December 9, 2025
Jamaica could record below 700 murders this year, lowest in nearly 40 years - Holness
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has highlighted Jamaica’s significant progress in reducing violent crime, noting that, for the first time in almost four decades, the island could record fewer than…
December 9, 2025
Gov’t moves to rebuild Trelawny Municipal Corporation building after Hurricane Melissa
The Ministry of Local Government and Community Development has identified lands owned by the Trelawny Municipal Corporation for the construction of a new administrative building, following the…
December 9, 2025
CXC pushes for skills-ready Caribbean workforce
The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has been actively building strategic partnerships with regional employers’ groups and national workforce bodies to keep pace with the growing demand for more…
December 9, 2025
by Barbara Blake
Jimmy Cliff, me and ‘The Harder They Come’
I met Jimmy Cliff in 1964 when he first stepped foot onto English soil. I had some Jamaican friends Carl and ‘Pepsi’ who had been given the job of meeting him at the airport, and they asked me to…
December 9, 2025
Shooting at barbershop in Commodore leaves owner dead and 80-y-o man injured
Two men were shot, one fatally, at a barbershop in Commodore, St Catherine on Saturday night. Dead is the shop’s operator, 51-year-old Andrew Richards, otherwise called ‘Killer’. The other victim is…
December 9, 2025
AI country hit built on Blanco Brown’s sound sparks questions
LOS ANGELES (AP): When an AI-generated country song called Walk My Walk hit No. 1 on Billboard’s country digital song sales chart this month, it was credited to a fictional artiste named Breaking…
December 9, 2025
Jeffrey Bostic installed as second president of Barbados
BRIDGETOWN (CMC) The second president of Barbados, Jeffrey Bostic, was sworn in early Sunday during the 59th anniversary of Independence and the fourth as a republic. A former minister of health and…
December 9, 2025
Health officials monitor H5 avian flu
GEORGE TOWN (CMC): Officials from the agriculture and health ministries have confirmed that H5 avian flu has been detected in animals on a farm here, and immediate coordinated action is being taken…
December 9, 2025
Maduro may seem desperate, but his loyalty vs punishment strategy is hard to crack
CARACAS (AP): English phrases once bothered Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro so much that he urged his State of the Union address audience to phase out words like skatepark and fashion. But, as…