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December 9, 2025
by Barbara Blake
Jimmy Cliff, me and ‘The Harder They Come’
I met Jimmy Cliff in 1964 when he first stepped foot onto English soil. I had some Jamaican friends Carl and ‘Pepsi’ who had been given the job of meeting him at the airport, and they asked me to…
December 9, 2025
Shooting at barbershop in Commodore leaves owner dead and 80-y-o man injured
Two men were shot, one fatally, at a barbershop in Commodore, St Catherine on Saturday night. Dead is the shop’s operator, 51-year-old Andrew Richards, otherwise called ‘Killer’. The other victim is…
December 9, 2025
AI country hit built on Blanco Brown’s sound sparks questions
LOS ANGELES (AP): When an AI-generated country song called Walk My Walk hit No. 1 on Billboard’s country digital song sales chart this month, it was credited to a fictional artiste named Breaking…
December 9, 2025
Jeffrey Bostic installed as second president of Barbados
BRIDGETOWN (CMC) The second president of Barbados, Jeffrey Bostic, was sworn in early Sunday during the 59th anniversary of Independence and the fourth as a republic. A former minister of health and…
December 9, 2025
Health officials monitor H5 avian flu
GEORGE TOWN (CMC): Officials from the agriculture and health ministries have confirmed that H5 avian flu has been detected in animals on a farm here, and immediate coordinated action is being taken…
December 9, 2025
Maduro may seem desperate, but his loyalty vs punishment strategy is hard to crack
CARACAS (AP): English phrases once bothered Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro so much that he urged his State of the Union address audience to phase out words like skatepark and fashion. But, as…
December 9, 2025
New date for Debra Ehrhardt’s ‘Look What Fell Out De Mango Tree’
Two performances of Look What Fell Out De Mango Tree, actress and playwright Debra Ehrhardt’s newest play, have been rescheduled for January 17 and 18, 2026 at the University of Technology on Old Hope…
December 9, 2025
Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil tankers off Black Sea coast condemned
ISTANBUL (AP): The Turkish government has condemned Ukrainian drone attacks on two Russian “shadow fleet” oil tankers in the Black Sea. Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli said the attacks on the…
December 9, 2025
Netanyahu submits request for a pardon during his ongoing corruption trial
TEL AVIV (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges – seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly…