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Mona High School’s Savi-k Morton (right) controls a ball ahead of Jamaica College’s Dontae Logan during their ISSA/WATA Manning Cup round-of-16 football match at the Stadium East field yesterday. The game ended 2-2.
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

Eltham, JC through, favourites Mona out

ELTHAM HIGH are through to the quarter-finals of the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup after a hard-fought 3-2 win over Spanish Town rivals St Jago in Group 4 of the round of 16 at the Drewsland Stadium…
Pastor Everett Brown (left), president of the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (JAMU), gives an address to the media as Wenford Henry (centre), country director for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency Jamaica, and Adlai Blythe, tr
December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

Rebuked

The Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (JAMU) has moved to dismiss claims being circulated on social media that it has received funding from the Government or acted on its behalf to…
Dalton Fowles, country manager for Mastercard in Jamaica.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

Mastercard signals intention to support SMEs

MIAMI, Florida: Mastercard has signalled its intention to support Jamaica’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the wake of Hurricane Melissa, which devastated much of the sector and caused…
Hurricane Melissa devastation in Westmoreland.
December 9, 2025

Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility to launch micro insurance in Jamaica amid Hurricane Melissa

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) on Wednesday said that it will launch a new initiative in Jamaica this week in the wake of the disaster…
Montego Bay United’s Lucas Lima Correa (right) tries to dribble away from Racing United’s Tameish Richardson during their Jamaica Premier League match at the Catherine Hall Sports Complex in Montego Bay on October 19.
December 9, 2025 by Robert Bailey

‘SO FAR, SO GOOD’

RACING UNITED head coach Anthony Patrick says he is confident the new playing style he is introducing to his team will have a positive impact when the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) resumes this…
Students' Loan Bureau Executive Director Nickeisha Walsh speaking at a press conference at Jamaica House on December 3, 2025.
December 9, 2025

SLB to provide $60,000 grants to students in five hardest-hit Melissa parishes

The Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) has announced that students attending schools in Westmoreland, St James, Hanover, St Elizabeth, and Trelawny will each receive a $60,000 grant under a new…
England batsman Robin Smith stands on the balcony of Aitcheson College ground pavilion in Lahore, on February 8, 1996.
December 9, 2025

Former England cricketer Robin Smith dies at 62

LONDON (AP): ROBIN SMITH, the batter who shone for England in a period when it was beaten regularly in Test cricket, has died. He was 62. Smith’s family said in a statement from the England and Wales…
West Indies batter Ojay Shields is bowled by New Zealand’s Jacob Duffy during the second day of their Test match in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Tuesday.
December 9, 2025

New Zealand pacers strike back

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (CMC): PACERS JACOB Duffy and Matt Henry ran through the West Indies’ batting to leave New Zealand firmly in control of the opening Test at the end of Tuesday’s second day of…
Minister of Information, Dr Dana Morris Dixon. - File photo.
December 9, 2025

Support Jamaica donations to be used to rebuild homes, Westmoreland being prioritised - Morris Dixon

Information Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon has disclosed that the millions collected by the Government through the Support Jamaica Hurricane Melissa relief website will be used to buy building…