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Excelsior’s Kimarly Scott is one of the players Harbour View will be hoping will bring improved performances in the Jamaica Premier League.
December 19, 2025 by Gregory Bryce

JC, Excelsior ready to fight for title

Perennial title contenders Jamaica College (JC) will face off against a proven Excelsior High unit in a fight for urban schoolboys football supremacy today in the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup final at the…
Left to right- front row: Jeanette Calder, executive director, JAMP; Africka Stephens, founder of Fi We Children Foundation; Oshane Creary, director, The Lesma Ellis Foundation; and Icka Bailey, research and programme Officer, JAMP and other representative
December 19, 2025

Citizen oversight boost

The Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal (JAMP) has awarded €37,908 ($7 million) in European Union-funded grants to two civil-society organisations to strengthen citizen engagement in public financial…
Hugh Grant (left), CEO of the Jamaica Public Service, and Energy Minister Daryl Vaz in discussion during the arrival of 117 linesmen from Canada at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, on Wednesday.
December 19, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

More overseas linesmen arrive to boost electricity restoration

WESTERN BUREAU: There is a renewed sense of hope in western Jamaica following Wednesday’s arrival of 117 linemen from the Canadian company Graystone who are equipped with heavy-duty equipment to speed…
The mobile clinic donated by Direct Relief.
December 19, 2025

Mobile clinic gifted by California charity rolls out in W’land

A mobile clinic donated by California-based international humanitarian charity organisation, Direct Relief, has been deployed by Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton in Westmoreland to aid Darliston…
Members of the Kiwanis Club of West St Andrew, other Kiwanis club members, representatives from the Indian High Commission and volunteers, during the recent staging of the organisation’s health and wellness fair at Laura’s Basic School in Duhaney Park
December 19, 2025 by Keisha Hill

Kiwanis Club of West St Andrew brings cheer to Laura’s Basic School

In the true spirit of giving and community upliftment, the Kiwanis Club of West St Andrew hosted a Christmas Health and Wellness Fair at Laura’s Basic School, providing much-needed health services,…
Simone Sobers (centre), founder and president of Winsome Wishes for KIDS, presents grocery items to a parent during a Christmas treat at Morgan’s Pass Primary in Clarendon. At right are the parent’s children, whose faces have been concealed.
December 19, 2025

Non-profit steps in to help Clarendon children, teachers rebuild

As communities across Clarendon continue to recover from Hurricane Melissa, Winsome Wishes for KIDS (WWKIDS) is helping children, families and teachers rebuild their daily lives, and their sense of…
In this July 21, 2020 file photo, a man opens social media app TikTok on his cell phone, in Islamabad, Pakistan.
December 19, 2025

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Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah
December 19, 2025

Salah, Mbeumo lead list of EPL players heading to AFCON

MANCHESTER, England (AP): Mohamed Salah has gone for up to a month, costing Liverpool their all-time leading goal-scorer in the English Premier League (EPL). Manchester United have lost their most…
Dr Jhordanne Jones is the first recipient of the new postdoctoral fellowship established by the University of the West Indies and CCRIF SPC.
December 19, 2025

UWI, CCRIF back first climate‑attribution postdoctoral fellowship

Dr Jhordanne Jones has become the first recipient of a new postdoctoral fellowship created by The University of the West Indies (UWI) through its Climate Studies Group Mona (CSGM), in partnership with…