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December 9, 2025

Kemar Roach is a class player

THE EDITOR, Madam: In a match that swung between concern and survival, Kemar Roach produced a performance that reminded the region what resilience looks like in maroon. Shai Hope’s composed century…
Members of Venezuela’s Opposition demonstrate ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony where Venezuelan María Corina Machado is among this year’s laureates, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
December 9, 2025

Supporters of María Corina Machado march in cities worldwide

CARACAS (AP): Supporters of Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado demonstrated Saturday in several cities worldwide to commemorate her Nobel Peace Prize win, ahead of the prestigious…
Pearl Harbor survivors watch a vintage WWII airplane fly over Pearl Harbor at the ceremony commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, in 2013, in Honolulu.
December 9, 2025

Soon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive

HONOLULU (AP): Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the centre of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront. But today, only 12 are…
The charred interior of a nightclub, which caught fire early Sunday, is seen in Arpora, in Goa, India.
December 9, 2025

A fire at a popular nightclub in Goa kills 25

NEW DELHI (AP): A fire ripped through a popular nightclub in India’s Goa state, killing 25 people, including tourists, the state’s chief minister said Sunday. The blaze occurred just past midnight in…
RIDEALLDAY, ridden by United States hall of fame jockey. Javier Castellano, winning the fourth running of the Mouttet Mile over eight furlongs at Caymanas Park on December 6.
December 9, 2025 by Ainsley Walters

Rideallday makes new owners happy with Mouttet Mile

RIDEALLDAY YESTERDAY avenged October’s Gold Cup loss to LEGACY ISLE, powering past his drifting rival a furlong out to hand 14-time champion trainer Philip Feanny a second Mouttet Mile triumph in…
Clarendon College’s Roshaun Sterling heads a ball during his team’s ISSA daCosta Cup quarterfinal against St Elizabeth Technical High School at the STETHS Sports Complex yesterday. The game ended 1-1.
December 9, 2025 by Ashley Anguin

Clarendon come from behind to hold STETHS

A GUTSY 10-man Clarendon College rallied to secure a 1-1 draw with St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) in the opening fixture of the ISSA daCosta Cup quarterfinal round at the STETHS Sports…
Jamaica College’s (JC) Jamone Lyle and Excelsior High’s Shamarie Chambers get into an almighty tussle for possession during their ISSA/WATA Manning Cup quarterfinal football match at Stadium East yesterday. JC won the encounter 2-1.
December 9, 2025 by Gregory Bryce

‘This was like a final today’

IN A game played with the intensity of a final, Jamaica College (JC) edged Excelsior High 2-1 yesterday in the first round of matches in the quarterfinals of the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup at Stadium East.…
Glenmuir High School players in a celebratory mood.
December 9, 2025 by Raymond Graham

Glenmuir survive Kemps Hill onslaught, win first quarterfinal game

FAVOURITES GLENMUIR started the quarterfinals of the daCosta Cup football competition on a winning note as, playing at home against neighbouring parish team Kemps Hill, they staved off a strong…
Forensic personnel is seen at a scene where bodies of the victims of a mass shooting where found at a bar near Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, December 6, 2025. (AP Photo)
December 9, 2025

Mass shooting at a South African bar leaves 12 dead, including three children

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A mass shooting carried out Saturday by multiple suspects in an unlicensed bar near the South African capital left at least 12 people dead, police said. The victims…