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Gregory Brathwaite
December 9, 2025

Brathwaite calls time on distinguished umpiring career

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): VETERAN BARBADIAN umpire Gregory Brathwaite has officially retired from the international stage, bringing down the curtain on a celebrated career that spanned more than a…
Despie Pinnock a resident of Farm, Westmoreland, recounts her experience during the passage of Hurricane Melissa at the shelter at Belmont Academy in Westmoreland.
December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

Survivors speak out as Melissa wipes out Westmoreland communities

Where vibrant communities once stood in Westmoreland, Hurricane Melissa has left behind a skeletal, unrecognisable landscape. The Category 5 storm stripped the parish of its landmarks and claimed…
Workmen trying to restore vehicular or pedestrian access stop to assess the situation.
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

Raging Yallahs River carves new path, leaving communities cut off

Vehicular and pedestrian access between St Thomas and St Andrew has been severed after the four-lane Yallahs River Bridge, located at the border of the two parishes, was washed away during the passage…
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December 9, 2025

Jamaica establishes Hurricane Melissa volunteer registry

The Government has established a mechanism to allow persons who want to help with Jamaica’s Hurricane Melissa recovery to register with a database to volunteer. Minister of Culture, Gender,…
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December 9, 2025 by Erica Virtue

Prof Charles hailed as incredibly prolific, deeply analytical

Former colleagues of the late Professor Christopher Andre Duane Charles, who died last week, are remembering him as a brilliant academic and fearless researcher whose incisive commentary and deep…
Harbour View coach Vassell Reynolds
December 9, 2025

Melissa makes Reynolds’ Harbour View appointment ‘bittersweet’

NEWLY APPOINTED head coach of Jamaica Premier League (JPL) strugglers Harbour View FC, Vassell Reynolds, has described his appointment as “bittersweet”, noting that his personal joy comes amid the…
Minister of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie addressing a special press briefing on Hurricane Melissa recovery on November 3, 2025 at Jamaica House.
December 9, 2025

Gov’t to undertake national post-Melissa clean-up exercise

The Government is to undertake a national clean-up programme as part of post-hurricane efforts. Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie told a special press briefing on Monday at Jamaica House…
Solomon Sharpe, chairman of Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited.
December 9, 2025 by Robert Bailey

Losses mount for horse racing despite quick restart

CHAIRMAN OF Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL), Solomon Sharpe, says the company has suffered losses of more than $150 million following the devastating passage of Category 5…
Yoni Epstein, Chairman of Montego Bay United.
December 9, 2025 by Robert Bailey

Post-Melissa blueprint

MONTEGO BAY United (MBU) Chairman Yoni Epstein says the club will use the devastation caused by Category 5 Hurricane Melissa as added motivation to win this season’s Jamaica Premier League (JPL)…