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SIR DON, with Raddesh Roman in the saddle, returns to the winners’ enclosuure after capturing the 17th running of the King’s Plate at Caymanas Park yesterday.
March 30, 2026 by Ainsley Walters

Impressive win by Sir Don

SIR DON dismissed AMERICAN AVIATOR and ran away from RAINSVILLE, his lone threat in the stretch run, to clock a fast 1:31.2 in yesterday’s King’s Plate, redeeming himself as a three-year-old after…
Jamaica’s players celebrate a wicket during their Rising Stars U15 match against Trinidad and Tobago at Melbourne Oval yesterday.
March 30, 2026 by Lennox Aldred

T&T U15s edge Jamaica in rain-hit Rising Stars opener

Trinidad & Tobago Under-15s held their nerve to pull off a tense two-wicket DLS (Duckworth-Lewis-Stern) victory over hosts Jamaica in the opening match of the Rising Stars bilateral series at the…
Tivoli Gardens player Rodico Wellington.
March 30, 2026 by Livingston Scott

Wellington’s first hat-trick lifts Tivoli to 3-2 win

After 13 seasons in the Jamaica Premier League, Tivoli Gardens forward Rodico Wellington netted his first hat-trick in the league yesterday, helping Tivoli to come from 2-0 down to defeat Harbour…
Mariano Browne
March 30, 2026

Economist gives failing grade to CWI’s 2025 financial report

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Cricket West Indies’ (CWI) recently released financial report has come under heavy criticism from renowned chartered accountant and economist Mariano Browne, who has…
A mourner at yesterday’s funeral for Kiero Pinnock at the Regent Street Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kingston.
March 30, 2026 by Tanesha Mundle

‘Day of reckoning’

Declaring that no act of violence will go unanswered, Pastor Adolphus Smith yesterday warned that there will be “a day of reckoning” as he addressed mourners at the funeral of slain Denham Town…
Clyde Jureidini
March 30, 2026 by Livingston Scott

Reggae Boyz urged to find extra gear for DR Congo decider

TWO top local coaches and one Jamaica Premier League general manager were far from impressed with Jamaica’s overall performance in the 1-0 win over football minnows New Caledonia last Thursday, and…
Vincent Morrison, president of UCASE.
March 30, 2026 by Karen Madden

Dental surgeons grit teeth over classification delay

The Union of Clerical Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE) is blaming systemic “inertia” for the protracted delay in correcting an anomaly affecting registered dental surgeons. The union,…
Donna Parchment-Brown hands over an inflatable mattress to Newell High School head boy Gary Blake on Friday. Also in the picture (from left) are Dr Adeniyini Bamedele, foundation board member; head girl Kimberley Thompson, and Principal Audrey Ellington.
March 30, 2026 by Carl Gilchrist

New appeal for Jamaicans to help hurricane-impacted students return to school

St Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation Chairman Donna Parchment Brown has issued a call for Jamaicans, individuals and organisations to come forward and assist students who have not returned to school…
Vana Taylor (second left), chairman of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association Ocho Rios Runaway Bay Chapter, hands over a cheque for $150,000 to Gwendolyn Howell, administrator at Widow’s Mite, as an annual charitable donation, while Cherile Thompson
March 30, 2026

JHTA chapter aids St Ann’s Widow’s Mite

The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) Ocho Rios Runaway Bay Chapter continued its decades-long support of the Mustard Seeds Widow’s Mite facility in St Ann with a donation of $150,000 on…