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December 16, 2025 by Gareth Davis Sr

Deslandes calls for vigilance after reported rape at CASE

Passley Gardens, Portland: President of the College of Agriculture, Science, and Education (CASE), Derrick Deslandes, has condemned Sunday’s alleged rape of a female student by unknown assailants on…
December 16, 2025

GBA looks all set for return to the Olympics

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Pugilists from Guyana will now be eligible to compete at the Olympic Games after the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) secured provisional recognition from World Boxing. The…
Jamaica Surfing Association competitions co-ordinator, Icah Wilmot (left), hands the National Surfing Championships winning trophy to Elishama Beckford at the Copa Beach on Sunday.
December 16, 2025 by Lennox Aldred

Beckford, Alkateeb crowned national surfing champs

Under brilliant sunshine and facing the formidable rolling waves of Copa Beach, the nation’s top surfers delivered a spectacular display of skill and nerve at the National Surfing Championships on…
St Jago’s Alyssa Carty ditched the 400-metre hurdles for the 300 metres at the Wesley Powell Benjamin track and field meet at Excelsior High School on Saturday, finishing second in the event, clocking 44.11 seconds.
December 16, 2025 by Raymond Graham

St Jago girls dominate Wesley Powell Memorial

St Jago High School’s girls were in dominant form at last Saturday’s 22nd staging of the Wesley Powell Benjamin Memorial track and field meet, held at Excelsior High School. The over-distance meet,…
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December 16, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

St Elizabeth’s most vulnerable struggling to access benefits

WESTERN BUREAU: The destruction left in the wake of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa has dealt a major blow to PATH and social pension beneficiaries in St Elizabeth, with damaged post offices severely…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness.
December 16, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

Holness stresses Petersfield High must reopen January

WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness on Saturday told displaced hurricane survivors sheltering at Petersfield High in Westmoreland that the Government is committed to relocating them to…
Jamaica College’s Malique Bucknor (right) drives the ball forward while being chased by St Andrew Technical High School’s Shankeno Grant during their ISSA/WATA Manning Cup clash at the Drewsland Stadium on September 27.
December 16, 2025 by Gregory Bryce

OLD RIVALS AND DARK HORSES

The ISSA/WATA Manning Cup semi-finals are expected to bring fireworks as perennial rivals Jamaica College (JC) and St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) will go head-to-head in the curtain closer…
Janet Richards (right), founder of the Janet Richards Foundation, in a group shot with representatives from the Kingston-based law firm DunnCox during a handover of relief items to residents of Farm Heights, St James, last Thursday, following the passage o
December 16, 2025 by Christopher Thomas

Janet Richards Foundation, DunnCox unite to support Farm Heights with much-needed supplies

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Farm Heights in St James last Thursday got a major boost in their bid to rebound from the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, thanks to the supplies they received…
Trader Jonathan Mueller works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, December 11, 2025.
December 16, 2025

US stocks slip at the start of a week full of economic updates

Wall Street is losing ground on Monday at the start of a week full of economic reports that could drive where interest rates, and thus stock prices, go. The S&P 500 fell 0.3 per cent in afternoon…