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Tevin Imlach
December 9, 2025

Imlach embracing the challenge as WI gear up for New Zealand Test

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (CMC): As the West Indies cricket team puts the finishing touches on their preparations for the first Test against New Zealand, wicket-keeper batsman Tevin Imlach expressed a…
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December 9, 2025

Homes and businesses urged to prepare premises for safe return of electricity – JPS

The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is encouraging persons in areas impacted by Hurricane Melissa to ensure that their properties are safe to receive power. JPS says homes and businesses affected by…
Kolkata Knight Riders’ Andre Russell.
December 9, 2025

Russell retires from IPL, transitions to KKR’s ‘Power coach’

KOLKATA, India (CMC): In a move that marks the end of a glittering chapter, Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR’s) icon Andre Russell has announced his retirement from the Indian Premier League. The decision…
Jacqueline Simpson Huntley, principal of Ewarton High.
December 9, 2025 by Ruddy Mathison

Schools, churches unite to host students from devastated parishes

Some 200 students from five of the parishes hardest hit by Hurricane Melissa are set to continue their education under a relocation initiative – the brainchild of St Catherine North West Member of…
Osanna Praise leading the praise and worship segment during Divine Service  at Meadowvale SDA Music Day on Saturday, November 29.
December 9, 2025 by Yasmine Peru

Powerful ministry in song at Meadowvale SDA Music Day

Seventh-day Adventists are acknowledged as having the gift of singing, and, on the annual calendar of events for many churches is Music Day – that Sabbath when even the birds seem to pause and listen…
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after speaking to troops via video from his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 27, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
December 9, 2025

US halts all asylum decisions after shooting of National Guard members

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people travelling on Afghan passports, seizing on the National Guard shooting in the…
First-time author Sandra D. Cooper, at the launch of her debut book, ‘Flying Without Wings: How to Live as a Spiritual Superhero in a Human Bodysuit’, at the Temple of Light Centre for Spiritual Living on Wednesday.
December 9, 2025

Something Extra | Monday

It was an evening of insight and inspiration as first-time author Sandra D. Cooper launched her debut book, Flying Without Wings: How to Live as a Spiritual Superhero in a Human Bodysuit, at the…
Prime Minister, Dr Andrew Holness, addressing the opening ceremony for the newly reconstructed Little London Police Station in Westmoreland on Friday, November 28, 2025.
December 9, 2025

Jamaica could record below 700 murders this year, lowest in nearly 40 years - Holness

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has highlighted Jamaica’s significant progress in reducing violent crime, noting that, for the first time in almost four decades, the island could record fewer than…
Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie (centre), converses with President and Chief Executive Officer of the Port Authority of Jamaica, Professor Gordon Shirley (left), and Chairman of the Tourism Product Development Compa
December 9, 2025

Gov’t moves to rebuild Trelawny Municipal Corporation building after Hurricane Melissa

The Ministry of Local Government and Community Development has identified lands owned by the Trelawny Municipal Corporation for the construction of a new administrative building, following the…