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England’s Jofra Archer (left) and Jacob Bethell.
December 31, 2025

England T20 World Cup squad takes on Caribbean flavour

LONDON, England (CMC): Barbadians Jofra Archer and Jacob Bethell have been included in England’s 15-man provisional squad for the 2026 T20 World Cup. Archer has been named in the squad despite…
Australia’s Steve Smith (centre) watches a delivery from England’s Brydon Carse (left) on Day 2 of their Ashes cricket Test match in Melbourne on Saturday.
December 31, 2025

Pitch for two-day Ashes Test rated ‘unsatisfactory’ by ICC

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): The pitch used for the fourth Ashes Test that finished inside two days has been rated as “unsatisfactory” by cricket’s world governing body. No batter scored a half-century,…
Keshorn Walcott
December 31, 2025

World Champ Walcott cops another Sportsman of the Year award

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): World champion javelin thrower Keshorn Walcott and sprinter Leah Bertrand capped off an impressive 2025 by capturing the Sportsman of the Year and Sportswoman of the…
Dwight Yorke
December 31, 2025

Yorke stays, says TTFA president

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): President of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), Kieron Edwards has revealed that Dwight Yorke will remain as head coach of the national team, despite…
The Wheeler’s Mount Basic School in St Catherine, which was damaged by Hurricane Melissa.
December 31, 2025 by Ruddy Mathison

Crawford threatens court action over early childhood education

Opposition spokesman on education, Damion Crawford, says he is prepared to take the Government to court to defend what he describes as the constitutional right to early childhood education, citing…
Digicel staff members at CIPS awards ceremony.
December 31, 2025

Digicel gets ethical award

Telecoms Digicel Group said it become the first company in the Caribbean to be awarded the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) Corporate Ethical Procurement & Supply Kitemark,…
Milbert Miller, principal of the Sydney Pagan STEM Academy in St Elizabeth, shows damage done to some of the school’s facilities by Hurricane Melissa.
December 31, 2025 by Sashana Small

Storm-hit Sydney Pagon Academy engages shifts

Students at the Sydney Pagon STEM Academy in St Elizabeth will return to school on a shift system when classes resume on January 6 as the institution continues to recover from extensive damage caused…
George William Gordon House in downtown Kingston.
December 31, 2025

REINSTATED

The Public Service Commission (PSC) has ordered the immediate reinstatement of an officer who was suspended after raising concerns about procurement practices at the Houses of Parliament (HoP),…
Douglas ‘Dougie’ Turner pointing to the sign of the bar that was named in his honour at Jakes Treasure Beach in St Elizabeth.
December 31, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

Jakes reopens in style, with ‘Dougie’ centre stage

As the music pumped, patrons at Dougie’s Bar at Jakes Treasure Beach, Calabash Bay, St Elizabeth mingled and smiled. Happy faces were everywhere. Then, in a voice as joyful as joyful gets, someone…