MIAMI: FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on December 5 in Washington. The award, called the FIFA Peace Prize, will “recognise ...

Associated Brands Industries Limited (ABIL), owners of Sunshine Snacks, Charles Chocolates, Devon Biscuits, and Sunshine Cereals, has pledged US$500,000 (approximately J$79.5 million) in humanitarian ...

The West Indies drew first blood in their five-match T20 International series against New Zealand, defending a modest total of 164 to claim a nail-biting seven-run victory at Eden Park yesterday. The ...

Tennis great Venus Williams plans to play for a 33rd straight season on the WTA Tour, starting in Auckland in January. Organisers of the ASB Classic in New Zealand said yesterday that the 45-year-old ...

The police in the St Catherine South Division are searching for a man who allegedly robbed and assaulted six people at Hellshire Beach in Portmore on Tuesday morning. He is being sought for assault ...

Sporting Director of Mount Pleasant Academy, Paul Christie, says his team will not be taking any chances despite holding a commanding 5-1 advantage over Trinidad and Tobago’s Defence Force heading ...

Former Zimbabwe cricket captain Sean Williams won’t be selected for his country again after disclosing that a drug addiction was the reason he skipped some matches, the national federation said ...

When Hurricane Melissa pounded western Jamaica, Othniel Barrett’s house in Bethel, Westmoreland, shook under the pressure of the wind and rain – windows shattering and the roof leaking. And yet that ...

Seventeen people who refused to leave the Pedro Cays ahead of Hurricane Melissa’s wrath are lucky to be alive, after the storm flattened most of the fishing camps and even damaged the Jamaica Defence ...

The Transport Authority is warning public passenger vehicle (PPV) operators to stop overcharging riders in the wake of Hurricane Melissa. Reports have surfaced that some taxi and bus operators across ...

When the winds roared through the valleys of Westmoreland and the rain poundedrelentlessly against rooftops, three women, Corretta James-Yapp, Gloria Findley-McDonald, and Sherlette Wheelan, found ...

The Kingston Eastern Division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is in mourning after the sudden death of one of its own, Sergeant Davian Bennett, who was stationed at the Elletson Road Police ...