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Miguel Coley
December 9, 2025 by Robert Bailey

Coley urges Reggae Boyz to find a way

FORMER REGGAE Boyz assistant coach Miguel Coley is urging Jamaica’s senior men’s team to seize a golden opportunity and create history when they face Curacao today at the National Stadium in their…
December 9, 2025 by Lester Hinds

Barrel shortage

NEW YORK: As relief efforts intensify following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, shippers in the United States say they are now grappling with a shortage of barrels needed to send supplies…
The dormitories where gunmen kidnapped school children is seen in Kebbi, Nigeria, Monday, November 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Deeni Jibo)
December 9, 2025

Gunmen abduct 25 girls from high school in Nigeria

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen attacked a high school in northwestern Nigeria before dawn on Monday, taking 25 schoolgirls and killing at least one staffer, authorities said of the latest abduction of…
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December 9, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Court rejects claims of nullity in Reid-CMU fraud case; trial to proceed

Senior Parish Judge Sanchia Burrell yesterday cleared the way for the continuation of the long-running multimillion-dollar fraud trial involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid and his co-accused,…
New York Attorney General Letitia James.
December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

Melissa’s fury sparks demand for temporary protection for J’cans in US

New York Attorney General Letitia James has called on the Trump administration to extend its Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Jamaicans in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa.…
Dr Tamika Benjamin, assistant chief education officer in the Tertiary Unit in the Ministry of Education.
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Community colleges struggle to bounce back from Melissa’s battering

A senior official in the Ministry of Education says community colleges heavily damaged by Hurricane Melissa have received interim clean-up grants to help remove debris from their campuses. With…
Phillip Paulwell. - File photo.
December 9, 2025

Opposition continues to press for broad-based oversight mechanism for Hurricane Melissa recovery

Leader of Opposition Business in the House of Representatives, Phillip Paulwell, is intensifying his call for the Government to establish a broad-based national oversight mechanism to guide the…
Dancehall star Bounty Killer explains the reason behind the $8 million donation to four hospitals out west.
December 9, 2025 by Adrian Frater

Bounty Killer, DJ Khaled donate $8m to western hospitals

WESTERN BUREAU: Dancehall star Rodney ‘Bounty Killer’ Price, through his Bounty Killer Foundation and International DJ and record producer DJ Khaled’s We the Best Foundation, on Monday donated $8…
Minister of Sport, Olivia Grange.
December 9, 2025

Grange confident Reggae Boyz will defeat Curaçao and qualify for World Cup

Sport Minister Olivia Grange is expressing confidence that the Reggae Boyz will be victorious over Curaçao at the National Stadium tomorrow and qualify for the World Cup. Nearly three decades after…