The Gombey Warriors officially eliminated after Jamaica dominates Bermuda 4-0 in Kingston
Bermuda’s World Cup dream is officially over.
The Gombey Warriors were knocked out of 2026 CONCACAF qualifiers after a 4–0 defeat to Jamaica in Kingston last night. The Reggae Boyz dominated from the start, with three goals in the first half — including an own goal by Bermuda captain Dante Leverock in the 24th minute. Bobby De Cordova-Reid struck again two minutes later, and Shamar Nicholson made it 3–0 in the 34th.
Dujuan Richards sealed the result in the 76th minute, capping off a dominant performance by the hosts.
Jamaica controlled 75 percent of possession and fired 28 shots — 12 on target — compared to Bermuda’s 5, with just 2 on goal. Jamaica also out-passed Bermuda with 89% accuracy, while Bermuda managed 75%.
With the win, Jamaica returns to the top of Group B. Bermuda remains on zero points from four matches and is now officially out of contention for the next round.
World Cup Qualifiers: The Reggae Boyz in the drivers seat after the first half
Bermuda’s world cup dream is hanging by a thread after the Gombey Warriors were dominated 3-0 by the hosts, Jamaica, in the first half.
Captain Dante Leverock opened the score for the Reggae Boyz when he headed the ball in for an own goal in the 24th minute. Seeming to use Team Bermuda’s error to gain momentum, 2 minutes later Bobby De Cordova-Reid doubled Jamaica’s score, when he tipped the ball into Eve’s goal in 26th. 9 minutes later Shamar Nicholson made it 3 nil for the hosts heading into the break.
The S&P 500 and the Dow rebounded after all three major U.S. stock indexes opened sharply lower, while crude prices fell and safe-haven gold prices jumped past the $4,100 mark
International News via Reuters:
Wall Street stocks were mixed on Tuesday and Treasury yields dipped as investors weighed upbeat economic sentiment from the International Monetary Fund and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell against revived U.S.-China trade tensions.
The S&P 500 and the Dow rebounded after all three major U.S. stock indexes opened sharply lower, while crude prices fell and safe-haven gold prices jumped past the $4,100 mark for the first time.
The tech-laden Nasdaq remained modestly lower.
In a speech on Tuesday, Powell said the overall U.S. economy “may be on a somewhat firmer trajectory than expected,” while also cautioning that “there is no risk-free path for policy as we navigate the tension between our employment and inflation goals.”
That echoed an IMF report which raised its global growth outlook as tariff shocks and financial conditions have proven more benign than expected. But the IMF warned that the trade war between the world’s two largest economies could significantly slow output.
“What we have here is a market that has one ear constantly listening to the trade war rhetoric and then we have the other ear, which is in tune to the fundamentals of the stock market,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York.
The United States and China began charging tit-for-tat port fees on Tuesday.
Bilateral trade tensions, which have rattled world markets this year, flared up late last week after China tightened controls of its rare earth exports. U.S. President Donald Trump retaliated by threatening to hike tariffs on Chinese imports into the triple digits.
Upbeat quarterly results from high-profile financial firms including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Wells Fargo kicked off the third-quarter earnings season.
“If the banks are a guide, it will probably be a good earnings season,” Cardillo added. “That’s another supportive factor because to a certain degree, it validates the recent market highs.”
Analysts estimate, on aggregate, third-quarter year-on-year growth of 9.2% for the S&P 500, up from 8.8% at the beginning of the month, LSEG data showed.
As the U.S. government shutdown rolls on due to a partisan congressional impasse, official economic data remains unavailable. But a National Association of Independent Business report showed small business sentiment deteriorating as inflation worries creep back to the fore.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 392.34 points, or 0.85%, to 46,460.87, the S&P 500 advanced 18.74 points, or 0.28%, to 6,673.46 and the Nasdaq Composite fell 42.25 points, or 0.18%, to 22,652.35.
European stocks closed lower as renewed U.S.-China trade tensions soured investor sentiment and French tire maker Michelin cut its annual forecast, sending its shares to the lowest level in more than two years. Investors eyed developments in France, where the prime minister appeared set to hold off on a key pension overhaul.
MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe rose 0.51 points, or 0.05%, to 981.60.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 0.37%, while Europe’s broad FTSEurofirst 300 index fell 7.41 points, or 0.33%.
Emerging market stocks fell 12.50 points, or 0.92%, to 1,340.81. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan closed lower by 1.02%, to 695.44, while Japan’s Nikkei fell 1,241.48 points, or 2.58%, to 46,847.32.
Treasury yields declined but were off earlier lows, following Powell’s speech and IMF’s revised growth outlook.
The benchmark U.S. 10-year note yield fell 2.3 basis points to 4.028%, from 4.051% late on Friday.
The 30-year bond yield fell 0.6 basis points to 4.6282% from 4.634% late on Friday.
The 2-year note yield, which typically moves in step with interest rate expectations, fell 3.9 basis points to 3.483%, from 3.522% late on Friday.
Oil prices dipped on trade war jitters and a report from the International Energy Agency which raised the prospect of increased supplies and dampening demand.
U.S. crude fell 1.33% to settle at $58.70 per barrel, while Brent settled at $62.39 per barrel, down 1.47% on the day.
The dollar eased while the Swiss franc and Japanese yen firmed as safe-haven currencies benefited from heightened trade-driven risk.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies including the yen and the euro, fell 0.27% to 99.04, with the euro up 0.32% at $1.1605.
Against the Japanese yen, the dollar weakened 0.32% to 151.78.
In cryptocurrencies, bitcoin fell 2.13% to $113,334.48. Ethereum declined 3.91% to $4,121.82.
Gold broke past $4,100, boosted by rising expectations of Fed rate cuts and safe-haven demand arising from the latest salvo in the Washington-Beijing trade spat.
Spot gold rose 0.88% to $4,146.12 an ounce. U.S. gold futures rose 0.32% to $4,121.80 an ounce.
Reporting by Stephen Culp; Additional reporting by Amanda Cooper in London; Gregor Stuart Hunter in Singapore; Editing by Timothy Heritage and Richard Chang
There has been an increase in gang recruitment of minors this year, with children as young as 10 joining, and they likely represent up to half of all gang members
International News via Reuters:
Haitian gangs’ growing recruitment of children means it is inevitable minors will be caught in the crossfire, a U.N. official said on Tuesday, vowing to train armed personnel who deploy to fight those gangs as part of a newly mandated force.
There has been an increase in gang recruitment of minors this year, with children as young as 10 joining, and they likely represent up to half of all gang members, Roberto Benes, UNICEF regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, told a press briefing.
The conflict between heavily armed Haitian gangs – now largely grouped behind a single alliance – and security forces has escalated for years.
The U.N. Security Council in 2023 mandated a Kenyan-led force to help police restore order, but the under-supplied and under-manned force struggled to hold back gangs’ advances. Last month, the Council voted to restructure the force.
The new model, the Gang Suppression Force, would also rely on substantial voluntary contributions that have yet to materialize.
“We have all mechanisms in place to ensure that whoever will be mandated on the ground to actively carry out this operation is properly trained,” Benes said about the force.
UNICEF last week said that it had verified hundreds of cases of recruitment, with young children forced to carry weapons or serve as lookouts. Girls, particularly, face risks of sexual violence.
One in four Haitian children are out of school, often because the buildings are inaccessible, occupied or because their families were forced to move due to the violence, Benes added. He said 680,000 are displaced – nearly double the figure a year ago.
Reporting by Sarah Morland; Editing by Lisa Shumaker
The unnamed depression came toward the end of the rainy season, battering land and bursting rivers that had already been soaked by months of rains
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Torrential rains that lashed Mexico last week killed at least 64 people and 65 more are missing, the government said on Monday, after a tropical depression triggered landslides and flooding in parts of the Gulf Coast and central states.
The unnamed depression came toward the end of the rainy season, battering land and bursting rivers that had already been soaked by months of rains, while forecasters were focused on tropical storms and two hurricanes on the Pacific coast.
“This intense rain was not expected to be of such magnitude,” President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters.
Admiral Raymundo Morales, Mexico’s Navy secretary, said the flooding was the result of the coming together of warm and cold air fronts over rivers that were already filled to the brink and mountains weakened by months of rain.
Around 100,000 homes were affected, Sheinbaum said. She is set to meet with the finance ministry later in the day to discuss rebuilding efforts, and visit some hard-hit states.
Laura Velazquez, national coordinator of civil protection, said Hidalgo and Veracruz were the states worst affected, with 29 deaths and 18 missing reported in Veracruz, and 21 deaths and 43 missing in Hidalgo.
The rain also destroyed infrastructure such as bridges and left streets filled with mud. Videos and images from last week showed emergency responders wading through deep waters to find stranded residents and get supplies to affected communities.
Authorities have deployed thousands of personnel to help evacuate, clean up and monitor the places that were hardest hit.
Electricity, which had been knocked out in towns across five states, has largely been restored. Authorities said they will also focus on containing the spread of viruses such as dengue, carried by mosquitoes that breed in stagnant water.
Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez and Stefanie Eschenbacher; Writing by Sarah Morland; Editing by Mark Heinrich and Alistair Bell
Trump has repeatedly pushed NATO members to spend more on their own defense and cast doubt on Washington’s willingness to come to the aid of members who do not spend enough
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened trade penalties, including tariffs, against Spain, saying he is unhappy with its refusal to raise defense spending to 5% and calling the move disrespectful to NATO.
“I’m very unhappy with Spain. They’re the only country that didn’t raise their number up to 5%… so I’m not happy with Spain,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
“I was thinking of giving them trade punishment through tariffs because of what they did, and I think I may do that,” Trump added.
Trump has repeatedly pushed NATO members to spend more on their own defense and cast doubt on Washington’s willingness to come to the aid of members who do not spend enough. He said last week while meeting Finland’s president that NATO should consider throwing Spain out of the alliance over its refusal to agree to the new commitment.
Citing the great threat posed by Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, NATO members have argued that their previous spending commitment of 2% of GDP is no longer sufficient.
Spain was the only member of the 32-nation alliance not to commit to increasing military spending to 5% of GDP.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez secured a last-minute exemption at the time, saying Spain would only spend up to 2.1%, which he called “sufficient and realistic.”
Madrid, which joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1982, has argued it compensates for the lower spending with strong troop contributions to NATO missions, including deployments in Latvia, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.
Reporting by Steve Holland and Nandita Bose in Washington; additional reporting by Simon Lewis; Editing by Lisa Shumaker
After the powerful winds of Hurricane Humberto swept across Bermuda’s coastline, something extraordinary washed ashore. Local event planner and founder of All the Trimmings Weddings and Events, Katie Trimingham, stumbled upon a message in a bottle on a beach — and what she found inside was intriguing. In this exclusive story, Katie talks about her unexpected find and the mystery behind it, with Kendal Trott.
The Bermuda Senior Men’s Football Team has arrived safely in Kingston, Jamaica, ahead of their crucial World Cup qualifier, despite late changes to the squad.
Reese Jones and Nahki Wells are unavailable for the match; Jones has returned to his club with an injury sustained on Friday, while Wells has returned to the UK for personal family reasons.
Enrique Russell returns to the squad after serving his suspension, and David Jones has been activated to travel with the team.
BFA officials earn FIFA roles
In related news, the Bermuda Football Association (BFA) announced four major appointments to FIFA Standing Committees for the next four years, indicating high confidence in the island’s administration:
BFA Women’s Committee Chair Shequita Parson joins the Grassroots and Amateur Football Committee.
General Secretary David Sabir is appointed to the Stadium and Security Committee, continuing a role he has held since 2006.
Senior Men’s National Team Coach Michael Findlay joins the Technical Development Committee.
BFA President Mark Wade moves to Deputy Chair of the Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination Committee.
The Bermuda Police Service said the 24-year-old Pembroke man was arrested as part of the ongoing investigation
Full media release from the Bermuda Police Service:
The Bermuda Police Service (BPS) can confirm that a third person, a 24 year old male from Pembroke, has been arrested in connection with the murder of Janae Minors.
Ms. Minors you will remember, was shot while inside her business, Beauty Monster, located near the carpark of Place’s Place, on Dundonald Street, Pembroke, around 4:50 p.m., on Tuesday, September 16, 2025.
She was transported by ambulance to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for treatment, but sadly, succumbed to her injuries.
The investigation into this matter continues and we thank those members of the public who have so far come forward to assist.
However we continue to appeal for information and urge that you reach out and share with us what you know. No matter how insignificant you may think it to be.
If you were in the area of Court and Dundonald Street on the day in question and have any recollection of activity or any persons who may have seemed out of place or acting in a suspicious manner, please, make contact with Detective Chief Inspector Derricka Burns by calling 717-0921 or email dburns@bps.bm
You may also call 211, the main police number 295-0011, the community reporting portal at https://portal.bps.bm or, speak with a police officer you know.
If you wish to provide the information anonymously, we encourage you to call the independent and confidential Crime Stopper number 800-8477.
The dollar weakened 0.14% to 0.803 against the Swiss franc and was down 0.13% to 152.08 against the Japanese yen
International News via Reuters:
The U.S. dollar was lower against the safe-haven Swiss franc and Japanese yen on Tuesday following renewed signs of strain in U.S.-China trade relations, while the euro gained after the French government announced the proposed suspension of a landmark pension reform.
The dollar weakened 0.14% to 0.803 against the Swiss franc and was down 0.13% to 152.08 against the Japanese yen. The greenback gained against both currencies in the prior session.
“The market got caught a little bit yesterday,” said Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Capital Markets. “People wanted to believe that the U.S.-China trade tensions had de-escalated. But it’s clear that they have not.”
The U.S. and China on Tuesday began charging additional port fees on ocean shipping firms that move everything from holiday toys to crude oil.
In addition, Beijing announced that it has taken countermeasures against five U.S.-linked subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilding firm Hanwha Ocean and separately said it has launched an investigation into how a U.S. Section 301 probe affects its domestic shipping industry.
The tit-for-tat measures undermined what appeared to be a conciliatory tone from U.S. President Donald Trump at the weekend that had helped fuel some optimism at the start of this week.
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu suspended a landmark 2023 pension reform until after the 2027 presidential election, bowing to pressure from leftist lawmakers who had demanded such a move to ensure his political survival.
The euro extended gains against the dollar following the announcement. It was up 0.16% at $1.1587.
“It looks like there’s going to be less fiscal austerity than the previous government. French bonds are having a good day – they are the best performing in the euro zone,” Chandler added.
Britain’s pound was off 0.30% on the dollar at $1.32955 after data showed British pay growth slowing and jobless claims ticking higher.
The pound was also softer against the euro, with the common currency up 0.37% at 87.18 pence.
The Australian dollar, often used as a liquid proxy for Chinese assets and broader risk sentiment given the two countries’ close economic links, shed 0.52% to 0.64820, its lowest in nearly two months. The New Zealand dollar fell 0.26% to $0.571.
Elsewhere, cryptocurrencies were lower, with bitcoin dropping 3.44% to $111,822.21. Ethereum declined 7.06% to $3,986.91.
Reporting by Chibuike Oguh in New York; Additional reporting by Rae Wee; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Alison Williams
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