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Visible damage to the court building, with deteriorating tarpaulins and unsafe conditions forcing the staff out.
April 21, 2026 by Mickaila Kington

Staff protest locks down Westmoreland courts office

Western Bureau: Operations at the Westmoreland courts office in Savanna-la-Mar were brought to a standstill on Monday after members of the staff failed to report for duty, citing poor and unsafe…
Brianna Carr the student.
April 21, 2026

The Champs story that sits a little differently

There is something quietly powerful about being the only one. At the 2026 staging of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships in late March, where school pride is measured in…
Dave Anderson
April 21, 2026 by Robert Bailey

Hall’s return gives Holmwood chance at Penns upset

Dave Anderson, head coach of Holmwood Technical High School, says his girls’ 4x400m relay team has a strong chance of upsetting the favourites to win the Championships America’s title at this year’s…
Mesheka Brown (centre), Grant a Wish beneficiary, shares some of the details of her experience with aunt Shereka South (left) and Belinda Williams, interim head of the Group Sales Marketing Unit at NCB.
April 21, 2026 by Adrian Frater

NCB Foundation gifts $250K towards Mesheka Brown’s eye surgery

WESTERN BUREAU: Since 2019, Mesheka Brown had been trying to adjust to life with glaucoma, which had robbed her of her sight in one eye and was threatening the other, so she was not taken totally by…
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…