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Manchester City's Erling Haaland walks off the pitch after the Premier League soccer match between Burnley and Manchester City in Manchester, England, Saturday, September 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
December 9, 2025

Liverpool concedes late goal as its 100 per cent start to the Premier League ends with loss at Palace

There was a flurry of stoppage-time goals in the Premier League on Saturday — and one of them ended Liverpool's 100 per cent start to its title defence. Eddie Nketiah's strike in the…

Wavell Hinds, member of parliament for Clarendon North, at the swearing-in ceremony for members of the upper and lower houses of Parliament in Gordon House on September 18.
December 9, 2025

Hinds returns to Kensington presidency

FORMER WEST Indies cricketer Wavell Hinds has been returned unopposed as president of the Kensington Cricket Club, marking the start of his second consecutive three-year term. This follows a historic…
Sports
December 9, 2025 by Robert Bailey

Cameron embraces new chapter with JC

FORMER WORLD 400-metre champion Bertland Cameron says he is now embracing a fresh chapter in his coaching career, having joined the track and field programme at Jamaica College (JC), where he will…
A court date is being finalised.
December 9, 2025

Man charged for sexual assault of 7-y-o girl

The Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse has charged a 27-year-old man with the sexual assault of a seven-year-old girl. The man, who hails from Ewarton, St Catherine, was…

National Football Freestyle Champion John Manradge.
December 9, 2025

Beyond the pitch

PICTURE A bustling community bar on matchday, where fans in vibrant jerseys gather together, their voices rising as they passionately debate while the English Premier League lights up the screen.…
This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Humberto on Friday, September 26, 2025. (NOAA via AP)
December 9, 2025

Tropical weather in the Atlantic is slamming the Caribbean and may strike Southeast US next

MIAMI (AP) — Dangerous tropical weather brewed Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean with Humberto intensifying into a powerful Category 4 hurricane and a separate weather system taking aim at the Southeast…
Barbara and Lincoln Robinson relate the terrifying encounter being swept away in their vehicle in raging floodwaters during a thunderstorm in New Kingston recently.
December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

An angel in the flood

What should have been a routine two-minute drive from Dominica Drive to Chelsea Manor turned into a harrowing 15-minute ordeal for an elderly couple, after their car was swept away by raging…
Letters
December 9, 2025

Analysing election campaign fever and key messages

THE EDITOR, Madam: With the 2025 general election fever having subsided, it’s time to look at the parties’ marketing campaigns as a pure business case study. Marketers and event planners are aware of…
Letters
December 9, 2025

High time for Jamaica to get rid of Privy Council

THE EDITOR, Madam: I am of the view that Prime Minister Holness did the correct thing in scrapping the Ministry of Legal and Constitutional Affairs. There is no need for a ministry to deal with the…