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Gleaner editorial writes: While Jamaica’s size (with a population of nearly three million) helps to give it  CARICOM's third largest economy (US$21.41 billion, according to the IMF) in nominal terms, it lags on a per capita basis ... A skewed income dist
December 9, 2025

Editorial | The urgency of growth

Anyone with even a passing interest in investments and how long it will take their capital to double at a specific rate of return is likely to be aware of the Rule of 70. It is a simple tool based in…
Tina Clayton. - Gladstone Taylor photo
December 9, 2025

Tina Clayton mines silver in women’s 100m

Jamaica’s rising starlet Tina Clayton ran a new personal best of 10.76 seconds on her way to the silver medal in the women’s 100 metres at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships at the Japan National…
Oblique Seville. - Gladstone Taylor photo
December 9, 2025

Seville, Thompson into men's 100m final; Blake misses the mark

Jamaica will have two competitors in the final of the men’s 100 metres at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships as Oblique Seville and Kishane Thompson booked their spots in comfortable fashion. …
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. - Gladstone Taylor photo
December 9, 2025

Jamaican sprint queens comfortably into 100m final

It was a safe passage to the final of the women’s 100 metres for all three Jamaicans as Tina Clayton, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson all punched their tickets at the World Athletics…
Jamaica’s Danielle Williams raises her eyes to the heavens after qualifying for the semi-finals of the 100m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships.
December 9, 2025

Jamaican hurdlers in control

Keith McGhie/Contributor Jamaica’s high hurdlers cruised through the second morning of competition at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo tonight, Jamaica time. Danielle Williams began the…
Hammer thrower Nayoka Clunis of Jamaica during warm-up at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan on September 14, 2025.
December 9, 2025

Clunis falls short in hammer throw prelims at World Championships

Nayoka Clunis, Jamaica’s lone competitor in the women’s hammer throw, has failed to advance to the final despite a valiant effort in the qualification group A at the Tokyo World Athletics…
Frome Technical High School’s Raheem Dennison (right) tries to outrun Cambridge High School’s Kiron Malcolm during their Zone B ISSA daCosta Cup game at Jarrett Park on Saturday.
December 9, 2025 by Ashley Anguin

STETHS’ struggles continue, Cambridge earn draw

BEN FRANCIS Cup champions St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) are yet to register a goal, much less a win, in this season’s ISSA daCosta Cup, as they drew 0-0 in their Zone E match on…

Jamaica College’s Donald Stewart (right) and St Mary’s College’s Shaquille Burgher jostle for possession during their ISSA/WATA Manning Cup game at the Ashenheim Stadium yesterday.
December 9, 2025 by Robert Bailey

JC make dominant start to title-chasing season

FORMER CHAMPIONS Jamaica College (JC) began their quest to lift the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup title with an effortless 7-0 victory over St Mary’s College at the Ashenheim Stadium yesterday. JC were led to…
SUPERNATURAL POWER, ridden by Raddesh Roman, wins The Thunderbird Trophy over seven furlongs at Caymanas Park on Saturday, September 13.
December 9, 2025 by Ainsley Walters

Supernatural Power continues winstreak with Thunderbird Trophy

UNITED STATES-BRED SUPERNATURAL POWER yesterday chalked her fifth win from seven starts, easily tracking ridden-without-a-purpose MAMMA MIA, going by the native speedster while on the bridle entering…