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December 9, 2025
Jamaica nears US$1 Million goal in Hurricane Melissa relief donations
Information Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon says Jamaica is close to its goal of achieving US$1 million in Hurricane Melissa relief donations on its official portal. Speaking today at a special press…
December 9, 2025
St Kitts football association probes brawl that caused President’s Cup abandonment
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC): A HIGHLY anticipated President’s Cup match between S.L. Horsfords St Paul’s United FC and Rams Village Superstars FC was abandoned at half-time on Sunday night following a…
December 9, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
‘I thought this was the end’
Teniesha Kelly believes it was divine intervention that spared her family’s lives as Hurricane Melissa – a deadly Category 5 storm – tore through her Windsor, St Ann community, flattening homes and…
December 9, 2025
Brathwaite calls time on distinguished umpiring career
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): VETERAN BARBADIAN umpire Gregory Brathwaite has officially retired from the international stage, bringing down the curtain on a celebrated career that spanned more than a…
December 9, 2025
by Kimone Francis
Survivors speak out as Melissa wipes out Westmoreland communities
Where vibrant communities once stood in Westmoreland, Hurricane Melissa has left behind a skeletal, unrecognisable landscape. The Category 5 storm stripped the parish of its landmarks and claimed…
December 9, 2025
by Karen Madden
Raging Yallahs River carves new path, leaving communities cut off
Vehicular and pedestrian access between St Thomas and St Andrew has been severed after the four-lane Yallahs River Bridge, located at the border of the two parishes, was washed away during the passage…
December 9, 2025
Jamaica establishes Hurricane Melissa volunteer registry
The Government has established a mechanism to allow persons who want to help with Jamaica’s Hurricane Melissa recovery to register with a database to volunteer. Minister of Culture, Gender,…
December 9, 2025
by Erica Virtue
Prof Charles hailed as incredibly prolific, deeply analytical
Former colleagues of the late Professor Christopher Andre Duane Charles, who died last week, are remembering him as a brilliant academic and fearless researcher whose incisive commentary and deep…
December 9, 2025
Melissa makes Reynolds’ Harbour View appointment ‘bittersweet’
NEWLY APPOINTED head coach of Jamaica Premier League (JPL) strugglers Harbour View FC, Vassell Reynolds, has described his appointment as “bittersweet”, noting that his personal joy comes amid the…