Poor academic performance at Calabar High School appears to be at the centre of the impasse between stakeholder groups and the school’s administration after fewer than 50 per cent of students attained quality passes in key subjects in last year’s...
AHMEDABAD, India (AP): Will Jacks unleashed a batting barrage and shared an unbroken 166-run partnership with Virat Kohli as Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Gujarat Titans by nine wickets in the Indian Premier League yesterday. In the late game,...
KIRTIPUR, Nepal (CMC): Gudakesh Motie’s brilliant all-round effort fired West Indies-A to a 10-run victory over Nepal in the second Twenty20 of the five-match series here yesterday. With his side slumping at 115 for seven in the 18th over, the left...
With the latest Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) highlighting that 76 per cent of Jamaican children between the ages of one and 14 years experience ‘violent discipline’, Nicole Patrick Shaw, newly minted chairperson of the National Child...
A St Andrew vendor, who spent almost four months in custody before he was freed last week of a robbery charge, is making a special plea to the police “not to tell lies” on innocent persons. Kimani Pusey, 43, is also imploring the police to...
KARACHI, Pakistan (CMC): Captain Hayley Matthews snatched three wickets and smashed her 11th Twenty20 International 50 as West Indies Women stormed to a seven-wicket win over Pakistan Women in the second T20I here yesterday. The 26-year-old picked...
The popularity of the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) has grown exponentially in the four seasons Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL) has taken charge of the league. This season, it has grown even more so, and chairman of the PFJL,...
Port Antonio, Portland The annual Portland Paradise Weekend of activities has received a major boost following confirmation that the honorary consul of Jamaica in Atlanta, Dr Elaine Grant Bryan, will be the keynote speaker at the “festival in the...
It’s do-or-die time. Two teams will advance and two will go home when the second legs of the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) quarter-finals are completed this evening at Sabina Park. In the first game at 5 p.m., Portmore and Arnett renew their battle...
LONDON, England (AP): Arsenal survived a late scare at Tottenham to stay narrowly ahead in the race for the Premier League title yesterday. A 3-2 win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium ensured Mikel Arteta’s team remained at the top of the standings...
The Middle Managers Leadership Conference 2024 (MMC 2024) is preparing to host an exceptional Middle Managers’ Pitch Competition. This competition is designed to nurture middle managers’ skills in adaptability, courage, public speaking, and...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, says it is continuing to facilitate removal flights of single adults, family units to Jamaica and Cuba. ICE said the most recent removal flights, which took place...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Guyana has launched a campaign to distribute long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) in the Amerindian village of Aishalton, Deep South Rupununi, Region Nine, as part of a national strategy to eliminate malaria in the...
UNITED STATES (CMC): Haitian Rapper Wyclef Jean is hopeful that the installation of a transitional Presidential Council would help to “pivot the nation away from past destructive practices”. In a post on his social media account X (formerly Twitter...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Grenada’s Opposition Leader Dr Keith Mitchell has accused the government of purposefully debating and passing the gun amnesty resolution while he was unavoidably absent. Speaking to the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) on the...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC:) Trinidad and Tobago will host a high-level conference on Tuesday, aimed at supporting decision and policy makers, civil society and innovators to define what a Small Island Digital State (SIDS 2.0) requires, and identify the...
On Saturday, in the cool climes of Manchester and amid pageant elite and stylish supporters, Deidrian Downer was crowned Miss Universe Jamaica Central. Taking place at the Golf View Hotel, the event was the second of five regional pageants on the...
VENICE (AP): Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature have collided over the centuries to produce an otherworldly gem of a city. But, even for a place...
World Bash is headed to the O2 Arena in Birmingham, UK on Bank Holiday Sunday, May 5, for what the promoters say will be a historic night of sound system entertainment. Billed as the only sound system concert in the world, the event is bringing “...
BAGHDAD (AP): Human rights groups and diplomats criticised a law that was quietly passed by the Iraqi parliament over the weekend that would impose heavy prison sentences on gay and transgender people. United States (US) State Department...