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March 15, 2026

Past The Finishing Post

Mar 14, 2026 Race Results Race 01 Purse $730,000 MAIDEN CONDITION RACE - NB4-Y-O & UP Off At: 12:10.59 PM Distance: 8 Fur Track Condition: Dirt : Fast Winning Time: 1:44.4 Splits: 25.1, 49.3,…
West Indies Women.
March 15, 2026

Shallow concerned over women’s cricket

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Cricket West Indies (CWI) president, Dr Kishore Shallow, has expressed concern with the recent performances of the West Indies Women’s team, describing them as below…
UWI Women’s Caitlyn Sams (left) tries to evade the attentions of Arnett Gardens’ Tuanashe Hamilton during a Jamaica Women’s Premier League football at the UWI Mona Bowl yesterday. Arnett won 3-0.
March 15, 2026 by Gregory Bryce

Arnett women stay perfect with UWI thrashing

Arnett Gardens continued their strong start to the Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) after they thrashed The University of the West Indies (UWI) 3-0 in comfortable fashion at the UWI Mona Bowl…
West Indies’ captain Shai Hope (right) and batting partner Roston Chase run between the wickets during the T20 World Cup cricket match against India in Kolkata, India, on March 1.
March 15, 2026

CWI ‘grateful’ for return of all members of West Indies

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): The entire 26-member contingent which represented the West Indies at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in India is safely back at home. Cricket West Indies (CWI), yesterday, said…
Jasmine Abrams
March 15, 2026

Another Caribbean athlete joins Enhanced Games

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Guyanese Olympian Jasmine Abrams is the latest Caribbean athlete to reveal her intention to compete at the controversial Enhanced Games in May. The 32-year-old Abrams…
Ackee
March 15, 2026 by Lester Hinds

Shortage of produce threatens Jamaican restaurants in US

Several food items imported from Jamaica for the United States (US) market have remained scarce since Hurricane Melissa, leaving restaurant operators and other consumers in the diaspora and beyond…
Representational photo of a quilt
March 15, 2026

Commonwealth Foundation launches ‘Commonwealth Quilt’

Commonwealth citizens have been invited to consider a prompt ‘thread’ and respond to the call to action from the Commonwealth Poet Laureate - ‘What thread do you bring to the Commonwealth?’. Their…
Up For Air book cover.
March 15, 2026 by Book Review by Paul Ward

Capturing the silent rage

One late night, I sat for three hours and read this book cover to cover. I could not move. The novella is Imani Tafari-Ama’s imaginative conjuring of fiction from facts too gruesome to be believed…
March 15, 2026

Darby Burgett | Fever trees and forest pharmacies

For centuries, forests have stood as silent sentinels and humanity’s first pharmacy. Generations of herbalists – and today’s scientists – have turned to trees and plants to discover remedies that…