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Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 9:48 AMBANG Bizarre

Theobromine - a chemical compound naturally found in cacao plants and described as a “relatively unexplored dietary phytonutrient" -  is in the sweet treat, and it has been loosely linked to longer lifespans. Experts at King’s...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 9:43 AMBANG Bizarre

Social media isn’t just stealing children's time — it’s chipping away at their ability to focus. Researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and Oregon Health and Science University followed 8,324 children from age...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 8:54 AM

(AP) - An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced an Australian citizen to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of smuggling cocaine to the tourist island of Bali. Lamar Aaron Ahchee, 43, from Cairns in north Queensland, was arrested in May...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 9:07 AM

A team of 117 electrical linesmen from Canada arrived on the island Wednesday night, bolstering the Jamaica Public Service Company’s (JPS) efforts to restore electricity in hurricane-battered western Jamaica. This is the third arrival overseas...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

A winner in open overnight-allowance winners a month ago, PRINCE AMAAN has tumbled two levels lower to face $1.5-million claimers in Saturday’s fourth event at five and a half furlongs. Claimed at the level in May by Jason Dacosta from rival...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:12 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Glenmuir High School and St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) secured their places in the 2025 ISSA daCosta Cup final, after wins over Dinthill and Kemps Hill, respectively, in the semi-finals at Sabina Park yesterday. Glenmuir went a step...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Defending champions Wolmer’s Girls’ and Gaynstead High ruled supreme yesterday in the ISSA Urban Schoolgirl junior and senior netball finals at St Andrew High School, scoring exciting wins over their opponents. In the junior final, Wolmer’s edged...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:12 AM

Caribbean Champions Mount Pleasant Football Academy had their momentum in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) slowed by Racing United, who delivered a smash and grab at the Ferdi Neita Park in the absence of coach Anthony Patrick yesterday. Patrick,...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:11 AMAshanti Lawson/Gleaner Writer

Corporal Shantel Powell of Area Five has emerged the overall winner of the LASCO/Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Saluting Our Heroes Awards, topping a field of more than 158 nominees across the police force. Powell placed first among six...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:11 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Technical Director of defending champions Mona High School, Donovan Duckie, says the institution is determined to retain their ISSA/Walker Cup knockout title this year for ailing head coach Craig Butler. Mona marched into the final of the...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:11 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness and Minister of Culture Olivia Grange led Jamaicans in a fulsome celebration of the life of Jimmy Chambers Cliff, Grammy Award-winning singer, actor, Hall of Fame inductee and son of the soil. Among those present...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Eighty-four Jamaicans are among hundreds of “criminal aliens”, described by United States (US) authorities as the “worst of the worst”, who were arrested across several American states last weekend as part of the mass deportation policy of US...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:11 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

Former Ben Francis Cup champions McGrath High School and Cornwall College are still hoping for silverware and have come increasingly close to achieving that. Last year’s beaten daCosta Cup finalists, McGrath, were disappointed to have been knocked...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:10 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): After leading the West Indies Under-19s to series wins over Sri Lanka and England, Joshua Dorne will captain the side at next year’s ICC Cricket World Cup. Cricket West Indies (CWI) made the announcement in a press release...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:10 AM

MIAMI, Florida (CMC): The curtains have closed on a thrilling 2025 Concacaf Caribbean Cup, concluding with Jamaica’s Mount Pleasant FA hoisting their maiden trophy. While the champions etched their name in history, individual brilliance shone...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:10 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

Hit with losses estimated at $1 billion from the devastating effects of Hurricane Melissa, the local coffee industry yesterday received 5,000 bags of fertiliser and other key agricultural inputs valued at $35 million from the Jamaica Agricultural...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:10 AMRuddy Mathison/Gleaner Writer

Hi-Pro has moved to assist livestock and vegetable farmers badly affected by Hurricane Melissa with a donation of baby chicks, fertilisers, vegetable seeds, agricultural chemicals and feed for goats, pigs and layers, valued at $5.5 million, to the...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:10 AMSashana Small/Staff Reporter

Azan Supercentre in Cross Roads, St Andrew, is helping to bring back the magic of Christmas for hundreds of children impacted by Hurricane Melissa through its gifting tree programme. Through this initiative, customers select a tag identifying a...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:10 AM

A private equity firm owned by President Donald Trump’s son in law, Jared Kushner, is no longer backing Paramount’s hostile acquisition bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the firm confirmed on Tuesday. Days after Warner agreed to be bought by Netflix...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:10 AM

DOHA, Qatar (AP): The inaugural Women’s Club World Cup will be staged in January 2028, FIFA said yesterday. No host nation has been confirmed, but the January 5-30 tournament will likely be staged in a country with a warm climate at that time of...

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