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Asafa Powell (right) helping with the installation of windows on one of the donated housing units.
December 9, 2025

Powell gives the gift of shelter to two Westmoreland families

DARLISTON, Westmoreland: Olympian and Jamaican sprint legend Asafa Powell marked his birthday, November 23, in the most meaningful way this year by donating two new homes to families in Darliston,…
The Home Depot team cooking up a storm at the World Central Kitchen headquarters at the Montego Bay Convention Centre.
December 9, 2025 by Janet Silvera

Home Depot’s Orange Heart beats for Jamaica

WESTERN BUREAU: When Hurricane Melissa ripped across Jamaica, tearing apart communities and leaving families desperate for relief, help came from a place many Jamaicans never expected, the world’s…
Hugh Grant, president and CEO of JPS.
December 9, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

JPS CEO: Full underground power grid too costly for Jamaica

While the widespread destruction caused by Hurricane Melissa has intensified calls for underground electricity infrastructure, Jamaica Public Service (JPS) CEO Hugh Grant says the cost and complexity…
Reggae Boyz captain Andre Blake (left) leads his team out ahead of last Tuesday’s final Concacaf Group B World Cup Qualifying match at the National Stadium. Jamaica drew 0-0 with Curacao and failed to earn an automatic spot in the 2026 World Cup.
December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

Speid’s Boyz expected to breeze past New Caledonia in play-off opener

Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz and interim head coach Rudolph Speid will enter next year’s intercontinental play-offs as strong favourites to get past semi-final opponents New Caledonia, a group of islands…
Roderick ‘Latty’ Brissett.
December 9, 2025 by Janet Silvera

‘Latty survived the hurricane, but not the mud’

On his 68th birthday, Roderick ‘Latty’ Brissett felt only a little feverish. By the fourth day, the man who seldom got sick slipped away, taken by leptospirosis after the storm. Brissett ran every…
Arsenal’s Eberechi Eze celebrates after scoring during a Premier League match between Arsenal and Tottenham in London yesterday.
December 9, 2025

Too Eze: Midfield star hits hat-trick as Arsenal take 6-point lead in EPL

LONDON, England (AP): Eberechi Eze came close to joining Tottenham during the summer. Yesterday he scored a hat-trick against Spurs for their biggest rivals. The England playmaker was the inspiration…
Travellers wait in the main hall of the Simon Bolivar Maiquetia International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Sunday, November 23, 2025, after several international airlines cancelled flights following a warning from the US Federal Aviation Administration
December 9, 2025

Airlines cancel flights to Venezuela after FAA in US warns of worsening security, military activity

CARACAS (AP) — International airlines increasingly cancelled flights to Venezuela on Sunday after the US Federal Aviation Administration warned pilots to use caution when flying in the country’s…
December 9, 2025 by Raymond Graham

ISSA rural netball resumes tomorrow

FOLLOWING a halt to the competition due to Hurricane Melissa, preliminary-round action in the rural Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) schoolgirls netball competition will resume…
CEO of Spur Tree Spices Jamaica Limited, Albert Bailey.
December 9, 2025 by Luke Douglas

Produce stockpile aids Spur Tree Spices’ recovery from Melissa

In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, Spur Tree Spices Jamaica Limited says it manufacturing operation has suffered no downtime due to its decision to stockpile raw material for the range of seasonings…