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December 9, 2025

World Champs Schedule

Evening Session (Friday September 19) 3:33 am: Women’s 100 Metres Hurdles Heptathlon 4:20 am: Women’s High Jump Heptathlon 5:30 am: Women’s Javelin Throw Qualification - Group A 6:00 am: Men’s 5000…

The grounds of the construction site for the Western Children and Adolescent Hospital in Mt Salem, St James. The Chinese workers who have been contracted for the construction of the hospital took strike action on Wednesday, apparently over the lack of pay.

December 9, 2025 by Adrian Frater

‘No money no work’

Western Bureau: In a surprise move, Chinese workers on the new Western Child and Adolescent Hospital project in Montego Bay, St James, yesterday withdrew their services, claiming payment concerns,…

Olga Samuels (at podium), pastor of the Fresh Bread Ministries International [FBMI] nondenominational church in Montego Bay, St James, addresses the media launch of the Bishop Philemon Samuels Scholarship Fund, named in honour of the church’s late founde

December 9, 2025 by Christopher Thomas

Fresh Bread Ministries International unveil scholarship fund to honour late founder

WESTERN BUREAU: THE MONTEGO Bay-based Fresh Bread Ministries International [FBMI], a nondenominational church, has formally launched a new scholarship fund to assist a selected ward of the state in St…

Donna-Lee Donaldson, who was last seen on July 11, 2022.

December 9, 2025

Missing witness leads to trial delay

The murder trial of Constable Noel Maitland is scheduled to resume today in the Home Circuit Court, following an unexpected adjournment caused by the failure of witnesses to appear. The primary…

December 9, 2025 by Yasmine Peru

Nine night for Skill Cole tonight

The nine-night ceremony for Allan ‘Skill’ Cole, legendary Jamaican football star and tour manager for Bob Marley and the Wailers, will be held tonight at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre on…

Officers from Metropolitan Police Department, FBI, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are seen monitoring a football game between Bell Multicultural and Archbishop Carroll on September 12, at Cardozo High School in the Columbia Heights neighbourhoo

December 9, 2025

Law enforcement surge takes toll on children of immigrants

WASHINGTON (AP): The last time she saw her husband, the father of her three children, was when he left their Washington apartment a month ago to buy milk and diapers. Before long he called to say he…

Mica Moore waves Jamaican flags after securing her Jamaican citizenship.

December 9, 2025 by George Ruddock

Bobsledder Mica Moore needs funds for equipment

LONDON: Mica Moore, a member of the Jamaica female bobsleigh team, has set her mind on competing in the 2026 Winter Olympics, but she is reaching out to generous donors and potential sponsors to help…

A federal grand jury issued the indictment against Anthony Salvatore Perri this week in the Eastern District of New York.

December 9, 2025

Grand jury indicts man accused of threatening to kill federal judges in New York

NEW YORK (AP) — A man who has filed several lawsuits that were deemed frivolous has been indicted on charges he threatened to kill two judges who had presided over some of his cases. A federal grand…

December 9, 2025

Kingston woman accused of stabbing man in neck

The Kingston Central police have charged a woman with wounding with intent after she allegedly stabbed a man while they were at home on Duke Street, Kingston, on September 8. She is 28-year-old…