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Hydel High School’s athletes celebrate winning the final event of the Penn Relays, the Championship of America 4x400-metres inside Franklin Field Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Saturday, April 26, 2025.
April 21, 2026 by Raymond Graham

Views still mixed on Penn Relays gender rotation for marquee days

Girls operating on the opening day of the 130th staging of the Penn Relays will mark one of the highlights at Franklin Field in Philadelphia on Thursday. In 2023, the organisers of the relay carnival…
Edin Allen High School’s girls’ track and field coach, Michael Dyke.
April 21, 2026 by Raymond Graham

Dyke confident in Edwin Allen treble hopes

Edwin Allen High School head coach Michael Dyke is oozing with confidence ahead of the Penn Relays, which gets under way on Thursday, expressing high expectations of the team going into the three-day…
A Cyprus’ military officer walks by a frigate at the Evangelos Florakis naval base in Mari, Cyprus, on April 17.
April 21, 2026

US funding helps strengthen island’s safe-haven status

PAPHOS (AP): With help from United States taxpayers, Cyprus is upgrading key military installations to strengthen the mission it has carved out for itself as a safe haven in the eastern Mediterranean…
David Anthony Burke, whose stage name is D4vd, is arraigned on Monday in Los Angeles on charges of killing 14-year-old girl Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose dismembered body was found in his car.
April 21, 2026

Singer D4vd pleads not guilty to murder of 14-year-old

LOS ANGELES (AP): Singer D4vd pleaded not guilty Monday to a murder charge in the death of a 14-year-old girl who was last known to be alive nearly a year ago and whose dismembered and decomposed body…
New PFJL Finance Committee Chairman Peter Higgins.
April 21, 2026 by Gregory Bryce

PFJL names new Finance Committee chairman

The Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL) has unanimously appointed Peter Higgins as the new chairman of its Finance Committee and also named Andrew Thomas as a new member. Higgins, who is also…
April 21, 2026 by Corey Robinson

Dozens of UWI students scrambling for exam clearance amid financial strain

Dozens of struggling University of the West Indies (UWI) students are racing against time to secure clearance to sit end-of-semester examinations as mounting financial pressures threaten to derail…
From left: Miss Jamaica 1978, Joan McDonald; Miss Jamaica World 2025 Nevaeh Allen; Miss World 1976, Cindy Breakspeare; and Queen of Reggae Marcia Griffiths each hold a doll of themselves, made by Beverley Robotham-Reynolds of Island Dolls, at the Fashion E
April 21, 2026 by Yasmine Peru

50 years after winning Miss World, Cindy Breakspeare is a ‘dolly’

If Fashion Elevation were a dancehall show, its full title might read something like ‘Fashion Elevation: Queens and Dolls’ or, perhaps, ‘Fashion Elevation: Di Dolly Dem Come Out’. Last Saturday night…
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel (centre) attends a celebration marking the 65th anniversary of the proclamation declaring the Cuban Revolution socialist, in Havana, Cuba, on April 16.
April 21, 2026

Gov’t confirms meeting with US officials

HAVANA (AP): Cuba’s government yesterday confirmed that it had recently met with United States officials on the island as tensions between the two sides remain high over the US energy blockade of the…
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney.
April 21, 2026

Carney: Economic ties with US are a weakness that must be corrected

VANCOUVER (AP): Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a video address released Sunday that Canada’s strong economic ties to the United States were once a strength but are now a weakness that…