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Glenmuir High School’s Orel Miller (left) outpaces Garvey Maceo’s Tyreek McKenley during their Zone I ISSA daCosta Cup  match at Glenmuir on October 8. Garvey Maceo came from two goals down to win 3-2.
17 Nov, 2025 0

Defending champs in race against time

SCHOOLBOY FOOTBALL is set to resume next weekend after the disruption caused by Hurricane Melissa, with Manning Cup action returning in the Corporate Area on Friday and the daCosta Cup for rural…
From left: Inter-American Development Bank President Ilan Goldfajn, Grenada's Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell, Guyana's President Irfaan Ali, Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister Gaston Browne, Jamaica's Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness, and Barbados' Prim
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CARICOM leaders rally around Jamaica amid ‘unprecendented’ destruction

WESTERN BUREAU: Nearly one million Jamaicans have been affected and more than 150,000 homes damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Melissa, prompting a major regional response led by Guyana, which has…
Jamaica's Reggae Boyz go through their drills during a training session on  Monday just ahead of today's World Cup Qualifier against Curacao.
17 Nov, 2025 0

STRIKING DISTANCE

Twenty-eight years and two days to the day, Jamaica’s senior men’s football team secured historic qualification to FIFA’s World Cup Finals – France ‘98 – with a goalless draw against Mexico at…
Miguel Coley
17 Nov, 2025 0

Coley urges Reggae Boyz to find a way

FORMER REGGAE Boyz assistant coach Miguel Coley is urging Jamaica’s senior men’s team to seize a golden opportunity and create history when they face Curacao today at the National Stadium in their…
17 Nov, 2025 0

Barrel shortage

NEW YORK: As relief efforts intensify following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, shippers in the United States say they are now grappling with a shortage of barrels needed to send supplies…
The dormitories where gunmen kidnapped school children is seen in Kebbi, Nigeria, Monday, November 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Deeni Jibo)
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Gunmen abduct 25 girls from high school in Nigeria

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen attacked a high school in northwestern Nigeria before dawn on Monday, taking 25 schoolgirls and killing at least one staffer, authorities said of the latest abduction of…
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17 Nov, 2025 0

Court rejects claims of nullity in Reid-CMU fraud case; trial to proceed

Senior Parish Judge Sanchia Burrell yesterday cleared the way for the continuation of the long-running multimillion-dollar fraud trial involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid and his co-accused,…
New York Attorney General Letitia James.
17 Nov, 2025 0

Melissa’s fury sparks demand for temporary protection for J’cans in US

New York Attorney General Letitia James has called on the Trump administration to extend its Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Jamaicans in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa.…
Dr Tamika Benjamin, assistant chief education officer in the Tertiary Unit in the Ministry of Education.
17 Nov, 2025 0

Community colleges struggle to bounce back from Melissa’s battering

A senior official in the Ministry of Education says community colleges heavily damaged by Hurricane Melissa have received interim clean-up grants to help remove debris from their campuses. With…