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December 9, 2025
by Audley Boyd
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…
December 9, 2025
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…
December 9, 2025
by Karen Madden
JFF defends higher ticket prices for crucial WCQ match
The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is defending the increased ticket prices for today’s World Cup Qualifying match against Curaçao at the National Stadium. Earlier qualifiers were priced at $10,000…
December 9, 2025
by Janet Silvera
Mottley calls for fiscal space to help Jamaica bounce back from Melissa
WESTERN BUREAU: Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has called for urgent international support to ensure Jamaica gets the fiscal breathing room it needs to rebuild after Hurricane Melissa.…
December 9, 2025
by Janet Silvera
Holness: Every dollar will be accounted for
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is seeking to assure Jamaicans and international partners that all Hurricane Melissa recovery funds will be strictly monitored, insisting there will be…
December 9, 2025
Growth & Jobs | How small businesses can rebound after Hurricane Melissa
HURRICANE MELISSA, which inflicted catastrophic damage to several parishes, has left the island’s small business sector grappling with the aftermath. Amid the devastation, there is a strong call for…
December 9, 2025
Growth & Jobs | Gov’t focused on getting farmers back into production
MINISTER OF Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, says the Government is moving swiftly to get farmers back into production following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa. “The…
December 9, 2025
Joe Aldred | My resignation as a bishop
BORN, BROUGHT up, and inducted into church life in the rural community of Top Mountain, St Catherine, Jamaica, during the 1950s and 1960s before emigrating to England, I never imagined that one day I…
December 9, 2025
Former school football coach freed of sex assault convictions
The Court of Appeal has quashed the sex-assault convictions of former high school football coach Kevin Williams, ruling that the trial judge caused a “miscarriage of justice” by refusing to postpone…