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Howard Mitchell and Michael McAnuff-Jones write: The nation deserves representatives who earn trust, command respect, and possess the demonstrated capacity to lead with integrity.
December 9, 2025

Howard Mitchell and Michael McAnuff-Jones | MPs require capabilities, not checklists

The creation of a formal job description for members of parliament (MP), as proposed in the 2023 Green Paper No. 3 and recently endorsed by a Joint Select Committee, aims to enhance accountability and…
Bruce Golding
December 9, 2025

Bruce Golding | Whither jury trials?

Some two decades ago, I received a summons for jury duty. My attorney pointed out to the Clerk of Courts that as a member of parliament I was exempt from jury service and the summons was withdrawn. In…
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December 9, 2025

Orville Taylor | Eternal father… Anthem playing in Tokyo

At least twice, but more likely, thrice, the first stanza of our National Anthem will stream across the screen on TVJ and TVJSN, while we bite our lips, fight the tears, while mischievously saying,…
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December 9, 2025

Garth Rattray | A functioning JSPCA keeps us safe

I vividly recall the days when the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA) was on Spanish Town Road. Just about anyone who had a pet either knew of or went to the JSPCA. It…
Megan Tapper
December 9, 2025

Megan Tapper out of 100m hurdles through injury; no replacement due to late timing

Maurice Wilson, Team Jamaica’s technical leader, has confirmed that women’s 100-metre hurdles national champion Megan Tapper has withdrawn from the Tokyo World Athletics Championships. Wilson said…
Tina Clayton moments after winning heat two of the women’s 100m qualifiers at the World Athletics Championships at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.
December 9, 2025

All three Jamaican women through to 100m semis

It was business as usual for all three Jamaicans in the women’s 100m heats as Tina Clayton, Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce all advanced to the semifinals at the World Athletics…
Kishane Thompson
December 9, 2025

Men’s 100m heats confirmed after preliminary round

The start lists for the heats of the men’s 100m at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships have been confirmed with Kishane Thompson, Oblique Seville and Akeem Blake set to get into action. Seville,…
Jamaica’s  Leah Anderson, moments after competing in the Mixed 4x400m relay on the opening day of the 2025 World Athletics Championships at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.
December 9, 2025 by Gregory Bryce

Big first for discus thrower Hall

Jamaica endured a mixed bag of results in the morning session of day one at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships as Samantha Hall advanced to the final of the women’s discus throw while the mixed…
Erriyon Knighton of the United States.
December 9, 2025

US sprinter Knighton banned for four years

GENEVA (AP): Two-time Olympic finalist Erriyon Knighton was banned for four years yesterday in a doping case that ruled the 21-year-old United States sprinter out of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The…