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December 9, 2025
Service clubs join forces for Celebrate Community Week 2025
FOUR OF the world’s largest service organisations – Kiwanis International, Lions Clubs International, Optimist International, and Rotary International – have united for Celebrate Community Week, a…
December 9, 2025
US names Jamaica and four other Caribbean countries on drugs list
WASHINGTON, CMC – Four CARICOM countries have been listed in US President Donald Trump’s “Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2026” submitted…
December 9, 2025
Clark’s Town community fêted with back-to-school treat
The Clarks Town community in Porus, Manchester, hosted a vibrant back-to-school treat on August 27, themed “We Rise By Lifting Others.” As children prepared for the new school year, they enjoyed a day…
December 9, 2025
by Keith McGhie
Ricketts, Smith comfortably into triple jump final
Shanieka Ricketts and Ackelia Smith comfortably made it through women's triple jump qualifying, despite neither managing the 14.35 metres required for automatic progression. As three South…
December 9, 2025
Why no live coverage of netball?
THE EDITOR, Madam: Much has been written about gender issues, from violence against women, the opening of a gender-based violence centre, to closing the gender pay gap. There is even a ministry and…
December 9, 2025
Toddler, 25-y-o man killed in drive-by shooting in Kingston 20
A two-year-old boy and a 25-year-old man were killed in a drive-by shooting along Grenmeade Road, Kingston 20, Monday night. The toddler has been identified as Tajaun Jackson of a Nannyville, St…
December 9, 2025
Norris R. McDonald | ‘Ketchie-Shubbie’ politics, the youth and PNP’s identity crisis!
ON SEPTEMBER 3, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) secured another term. From his vantage point, the victory felt hard-fought and well-earned. Opposition Leader Mark…
December 9, 2025
Can devices cause anxiety?
THE EDITOR, Madam:
December 9, 2025
Elizabeth Morgan | Is indiscipline stifling development?
Heeding discipline shows the way to life – The book of Proverbs Without discipline there is no life. – Katharine Hepburn