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England’s Josh Tongue (centre)  celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of Australia’s Scott Boland during their Ashes cricket Test match in Melbourne yesterday.
December 27, 2025

20 wickets fall on record-breaking Day 1 of fourth Ashes Test

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): Australia collapsed for 152 yet still claimed a 42-run lead over England on the first innings in a remarkable opening day of the fourth Ashes Test on Friday in which 20…

Julien Alfred
December 27, 2025

Alfred sets sights on historic record in 60m comeback

GROS ISLET, St Lucia (CMC): After a year defined by Olympic glory and untimely injury, sprinting sensation Julien Alfred is shifting gears. The reigning World Indoor 60-metre champion has set an…
Brendon Rodney
December 27, 2025 by Raymond Graham

Big year in sports for GC Foster

THE past season has been a very good one for G C Foster College of Physical Education and Sports, as the institution recorded one of its best overall performances in a long time, dominating their…
Racing United’s Nickyle Ellis (left) and Montego Bay United’s Josiah Trimmingham battle for the ball during their Jamaica Premier League match at the Montego Bay Sports Complex on Sunday, October 19, 2025.
December 27, 2025 by Robert Bailey

Patrick: No room for complacency

Head coach of Jamaica Premier League leaders Racing United, Anthony Patrick, says his team will not rest on their laurels despite their outstanding form so far this season, noting that there is still…
Sports
December 27, 2025

Past The Finishing Post

Dec 26, 2025 Race Results Race 1 Purse $790,000 3YO&UP OPT.CLM($500,0-$400,0)/6YO&UP(NW4)&NB5YO(NW3) ADORABLE (Wayne’s 1st Winner) Off At: 11:36:07 AM Distance: 6 Fur. Track Condition:…
Members of the Tourism Action Club of The Heinz Simonitsch School in Montego Bay (from left) D’Alexander Davis, Samir Vassell, vice-president, and Kevaughn Stewart, president, at the media brunch/luncheon at Iberostar hotel.
December 27, 2025 by Neil Armstrong

Students reflect on tourism in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa

A trio of high-school students attended the thanksgiving service for the start of the winter tourist season in Jamaica which was held at Burchell Memorial Baptist Church, and later the media brunch…
Dr Lucien Jones, vice-chairman of the National Road Safety Council.
December 27, 2025 by Sashana Small

NRSC wary of road fatality U-turn

With road fatalities poised to break a three-year downward trend, Dr Lucien Jones, vice chairman of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC), is urging the introduction of protocols to test the blood…
From left: Adiel ‘King Diel’ Thomas, Justin ‘Just King’ Walker, and Carl ‘Lee Lee King’ Scharschmidt of the musical group Island Kings entertain the audience at the Kings of Christmas concert, held at Sunken Garden in Hope Botanical Gardens on
December 27, 2025 by Rollesha Laing

Kings of Christmas concert delivers music and heart

’Twas 8:42 p.m. on Sunday at the Sunken Garden in Hope Botanical Gardens, St Andrew, when Justin ‘Just King’ Walker, one of the three Island Kings, rang out the first note of This Christmas by Chris…
Kira McKenzie, Miss Jamaica UK 2025
December 27, 2025

Leicester beauty Kira McKenzie is Miss Jamaica UK 2025

LONDON: Thirty-one-year-old singer Kira McKenzie, representing the parish of St Elizabeth, was crowned Miss Jamaica UK 2025 before an appreciative audience inside the Cavendish Banqueting Suite,…