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Venezuela-born, United States-based jockey Javier Castellano (left) celebrates after riding Mage to win the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 6, 2023. Castellano, 48, will be in action in the Mouttet Mile at C
December 9, 2025 by Robert Bailey

It’s Mouttet Mile day: SVREL boss ‘nervous, excited’

Chairman of Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL), Solomon Sharpe, says he is feeling both “nervous and excited” as Caymanas Park prepares to stage today’s fourth running of the…
Travel advisers and tourism stakeholders at the Sandals Back to Jamaica held at Sandal’s Dunn’s River in Ocho Rios, St Ann, yesterday.
December 9, 2025 by Janet Silvera

Room inventory surges back

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s Director of Tourism Donovan White has assured more than 250 visiting travel advisers that the country’s tourism recovery is accelerating faster than anticipated, revealing…
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, giving an update on the Ministry’s Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts at a post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House in St Andrew on December 3.
December 9, 2025

Agriculture Minister assures that sufficient food will be available for Christmas

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, has assured that there will be sufficient food available for Christmas, as items such as fruits, vegetables and table eggs will be imported…
Mount Pleasant Football Academy head coach, former national player Theodore Whitmore (left), receives the Abe Alexander Award for Excellence from assistant general secretary Karen Bogle at the Kingston and St Andrew Business House Football Association’s
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

Whitmore gets award for excellence at Business House ceremony

Coach of Mount Pleasant Football Academy and national football icon Theodore Whitmore was the recipient of the Kingston and St Andrew Business House Football Association’s Abe Alexander award for…
December 9, 2025 by Raymond Graham

ISSA basketball: Camperdown, Campion Ardenne score big wins

CAMPERDOWN HIGH, Campion College and Ardenne High all went over the century mark as they scored big wins over their rivals on Thursday in the ISSA urban senior schoolboys under-19 basketball…
Tameka Forrester at a Being Black in Canada event, in 2023.
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

Tamika Forrester: A Jamaican journalist in Canada

A chance encounter with the head of news for the Toronto-based Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), at a conference in Barbados, put then Television Jamaica (TVJ) journalist Tamika Forrester on a…
Minister of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie (second left) tours a section of the Savanna-La-Mar Market in Westmoreland last Wednesday to assess the damage caused by the recent passage of Hurricane Melissa. Joining him are (from
December 9, 2025

Clean-up operations to begin at Savanna-La-Mar Market

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, has directed that immediate clean-up operations begin at the Savanna-la-Mar market in Westmoreland, following extensive damage…
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference at Harry Reid International Airport, Saturday, November 22, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ronda Churchill)
December 9, 2025

Trump administration will expand travel ban to more than 30 countries, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will be expanding its ban on travel for citizens of certain countries to more than 30, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, in the latest…
December 9, 2025

ISSA netball: Unbeaten Denbigh ease into quarterfinals

DENBIGH HIGH School’s junior and senior netball teams are through to the quarterfinals of the ISSA rural schoolgirls netball competition after victories on Thursday at G.C. Foster College in their set…