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West Indies T20 captain Shai Hope.
January 31, 2026

Hope not concerned with losing T20 series to Proteas

CENTURION, South Africa (CMC): West Indies T20 captain Shai Hope isn’t bothered that the West Indies have lost successive matches to surrender their T20I series to South Africa. Following their…
Dwight Yorke
January 31, 2026

TTFA to decide on Yorke’s future by March

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Within the next two months the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) will make a decision as to whether Dwight Yorke will stay on as head coach of the men’s…
January 31, 2026

Sri Lanka defeat South Africa to dump WI out of U19 World Cup

HARARE, Zimbabwe (CMC): West Indies were officially eliminated from semifinal contention at the ICC Men’s Under-19 Cricket World Cup after Sri Lanka defeated South Africa in their Super Six, Group 1…
York Castle High’s Omar Campbell (right) dribbles away from Belair High’s Raheem Irvin during their ISSA Rural Schoolboys Basketball match at York Castle’s court on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
January 31, 2026 by Ashley Anguin

York Castle to focus on improving defence, offence after 76-51 win

York Castle High’s head coach Peter Chambers is focused on improving his team’s defence and offence after a 76-51 win over Belair High in the quarterfinals of the ISSA Schoolboys Rural Under-16…
January 31, 2026 by Gregory Bryce

No pressure at all

Although he is faced with the monumental task of leading Kingston College to a record 37th ISSA GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) title, Richard Smith said he is feeling no…
Agape Hope Foundation President Stephen Simpson, and Vice President Paulton McCarthy-Walker.
January 31, 2026 by Olivia Brown

Young men build foundation to support education, communities

At 21, Stephen Simpson and Zakari Messam have turned a shared impulse into something more durable. What began during the COVID-19 pandemic as informal conversations about giving back – initially…
Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade.
January 31, 2026 by Kimone Francis

Johnson Smith touts Jamaica as ‘place to be’ for int’l investors

PANAMA CITY, Panama: Jamaica’s foreign minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, has issued a clarion call to international investors to partner in the strategic redevelopment of the island’s western…
Patrick Hylton, the new president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), addressing a press briefing and official introduction at the PSOJ’s head office in St Andrew on Thursday.
January 31, 2026

Former banker Patrick Hylton to bat for small business as PSOJ head

Having spent years at the helm of Jamaica’s largest financial institution, new president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Patrick Hylton says he will use his experience to pave the…
Damion Hylton (left), project manager at Rise & Thrive, takes a group photo with participants at a youth workshop held recently at the Council of Voluntary Social Services office on South Camp Road in Kingston.
January 31, 2026

Community groups ‘Rise & Thrive’ in Kingston ZOSOs

Community-based organisations operating in some of Kingston and St Andrew’s most vulnerable communities are receiving critical support under the Rise & Thrive Initiative, a six-month project…