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In the wake of an extraordinary year for Jamaican athletics, the nation is turning its spotlight to the masterminds behind the success: the coaches.

The Honourable Olivia Grange, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Jamaica.

Marking National Coaches Day 2025, the Honourable Olivia Grange, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, led the tributes, recognising the ‘immense contribution’ of coaches from every corner of the island.

‘Our coaches are the architects of our athletic dominance,’ Minister Grange stated in an official release.

‘Their discipline, dedication, and expertise not only produce world-class athletes but also instil invaluable life skills in our young people.’

The annual celebration, officially proclaimed by Governor-General Sir Patrick Linton Allen in 2022, comes at a high point following what the Minister described as a ‘remarkably successful 2025 Athletics season’ for both junior and senior teams.

The Jamaica Track and Field Coaches Association (JATAFCA) received special praise for its pivotal role in initiating the push for a national day to honour coaches.

The partnership between the Ministry and JATAFCA will culminate in a major awards ceremony on November 22, 2025.

The event, under the theme ‘Sustainability of Athletics Through the Development of Coaches,’ will celebrate the long and distinguished service of track and field coaches across five categories of excellence.

Echoing the Governor-General’s call, Minister Grange urged all citizens to participate in the day’s activities and to support coaches year-round.

‘The success of Jamaican sport, from the primary to the elite level, is a direct reflection of the calibre and commitment of its coaching professionals,’ the Minister affirmed, saluting all coaches, past and present.

The St. Vincent and the Grenadines government says it has collected EC$70 million (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) in tax revenue during the first eight months of the year, compared to the same period of 2024.

But it acknowledged that spending outstripped receipts slightly, leaving a current account deficit of EC$718,000, down from EC$19.3 million last year.

Finance Minister Camillo Gonsalves told Parliament that the current revenue of the Ralph Gonsalves’ government’s fiscal performance during the first eight months of the year amounted to EC$583 million, compared to EC$517 million up to that same period last year.

‘So we’re almost EC$70 million up – 60-odd million, and at 2023 at this period, we were at EC$481 million. So current revenue is up over EC$100 million over 2023,’ he said, adding that total revenue and grants was EC$624 million compared to EC$559 million year to point in 2024, and EC$514 million in 2023.

‘So that’s up $110 million over the two-year-ago period,’ he said.

The EC$70 million in taxes collected through August 31 is an 11 per cent increase over the EC$62 million of the year-ago period. Corporate taxes stood at EC$40 million, a 22 per cent increase over the 2024 period, when it was EC$33 million.

‘That always suggests that businesses are doing a little more business, making a little more money, and that’s good for everybody,’ Gonsalves said, adding that taxes on goods and services generated EC$182 million as opposed to EC$175 million in 2024 and EC$167 million in 2023.

Taxes on international trade was at EC$159 million, compared to EC$132 million in 2024 and EC$115 million in 2023. The sale of goods and services generated EC$75.4 million as opposed to EC$61 million last year and EC$51 million in 2023.

Capital revenue and grants was flat year-on-year at EC$41 million this year, compared to EC$32 million in 2023.

Gonsalves said total expenditure was EC$841 million on August 31, as compared to EC$728, year-on-year and EC$601 million in 2023, adding ‘you will notice that although the current revenue is increasing dramatically, so, too, is the expenditure’.

The finance minister said current expenditure stood at EC$584 million at the end of August, while it was 536 million in 2024 and EC$484 million in 2023.

‘You’re seeing the trend that if you go back two years, everything is up in the neighbourhood of $100 million, going back from the 2023 period to now.’

Gonsalves said one of the ‘big-ticket items’ is the compensation of employees, which was EC$262 million, up from EC$244 million in 2024 and $232 million in 2023.

He said the salary increase that came into effect this year contributed to the higher spending.

On the capital side, capital expenditure was EC$257 million.

He noted that in 2024, the government set a record of EC$568 million in capital spending, even as the number was EC$191 million on August 31, 2024.

‘So we are far outstripping last year’s record pace,’ Gonsalves said, adding that capital spending was up 34 per cent.

‘The current balance is $700,000 in deficit as opposed to last year, when we were $19 million in deficit. And the primary balance is a deficit of 130 as opposed to a deficit of 97 last year,’ he said.

The finance minister said the current expenditure of EC$584 million was almost the same as the current revenue, hence the deficit was less than EC$1 million. As of August, 31, the government recorded revenue totalling 1.05 billion, including current revenue and capital receipts.

‘This represents 57 per cent of the amount budgeted to be collected for the year on the expenditure side,’ Gonsalves said, noting that current expenditure, amortisation, sinking fund contributions and capital expenditure added up to approximately one billion EC dollars or 54 per cent of the budget.

‘The total budget would be broken down as follows: current revenue, of EC$583 million; capital receipts of EC$471 million, of which grants are 36 million, external loans are 292 million, local loans of 107 million, disposal of land of 1 million, and other receipts of 35 million .’

He said expenditure was EC$584 million, made up of financing of EC$158 million, amortisation of EC$146 million, sinking fund contributions of EC$11 million and capital expenditure of EC$257 million.

Gonsalves said that with two-thirds of the year having passed, current revenue has performed well, increasing significantly by 12.8 per cent and so far accounting for just over 64 per cent of the budget.

‘We’ve had good performance from taxes on income and profits, which increased by 13 per cent because all subcomponents performed better than last year, especially corporate taxes, which outperformed their respective year-to-date budget targets.’

Similarly, taxes on international trade went up by 21 per cent and the sub-components of import duty, vehicle surtax and VAT also outperformed the previous year and the year-to-date budgets.

Revenue from sales of goods and services went up by 24.5 per cent, driven by increased collections on driver’s licenses, which also outperformed their target to date. Recurrent expenditure saw an 8.9per cent increase in spending, approximately 64% of the budget to date.

‘This is driven by increased expenditure on the compensation of employees, which went up by 7.1 per cent due to the 2.5 per cent salary increase for public servants, along with increases in increments and allowances and also some new hirings.’

Gonsalves said the one per cent increase in the National Insurance Services contribution rate also contributed to part of this 7.1 per cent increase in compensation.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has quietly carried out a minor re-shuffle of her cabinet less than six months after winning the April 28 general elections in Trinidad and Tobago.

While she did not remove any minister from her cabinet and has so far not made any public statement regarding the changes, the changes took effect from October 3, and were published in the official Gazette a day later.

As a result of the changes, the 73-year-old Persad Bissessar takes on several new responsibilities particularly in the areas of housing grants and self-help programmes. She has taken direct control of the Home Improvement Grants Policy, the Housing and Village Improvement Programme (HVIP), and the Government Aided Self-Help Housing Programme (GASHHP).

Persad Bissessar has also assumed direct responsibility for the portfolio of Constitutional Reform.

Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar has launched a scathing critique of the West Indies’ dramatic decline in Test cricket, branding their current pace attack as looking ‘more like net bowlers’ after a meek surrender to India in the first Test.

Sunil Gavaskar said only pacer Jayden Seales looked the part during the just-concluded Test against India.

The match, which India won by an innings and 140 runs, was so one-sided that it was overshadowed by other news, a stark contrast to the era when a victory over the West Indies would have sent shockwaves across the globe. The

Caribbean side’s performance, both with bat and ball, painted a picture of a team far removed from its storied past.

Gavaskar, in his column for Sportstar, expressed his disbelief at the toothless West Indies bowling, reserving criticism for all but one bowler.

‘In Ahmedabad, apart from Jayden Seales, the other two were simply trundlers,’ Gavaskar wrote.

‘No disrespect intended to them, but to see the first bouncer being bowled after half a dozen overs had been bowled made one ask, ‘Is this really the West Indies pace attack?”

He acknowledged the effort required for a bouncer but emphasised its importance as a ‘surprise weapon’ to intimidate batters, a tactic famously synonymous with the West Indies teams of yesteryear.

The gulf between the two teams was even more evident with the bat. While Indian batsmen, including centurions KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel, and Ravindra Jadeja, piled on the runs, the West Indies’ resistance was minimal.

Gavaskar noted that only Alick Athanaze and Justin Greaves showed any appetite for a fight, with their top scores of 38 and 32, respectively, underscoring the team’s batting frailties.

The former India captain drew a painful comparison with the legendary batsmen of Caribbean cricket’s golden age.

‘For a team that once boasted of the likes of Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd, Gordon Greenidge, and Brian Lara, there is simply nobody in this current team who looks like getting a million country miles close to them,’ Gavaskar lamented.

The current state of affairs represents a dramatic reversal of fortunes. During Gavaskar’s own playing career (1971-1987), India won only five of the 31 Tests against the West Indies.

Incredibly, the West Indies have not managed a single Test victory against India since 2002, with India dominating the last 25 encounters with 15 wins.

Police says they have seized more than US$12 million in cocaine during several operations over the last weekend.

They said that on Saturday night, two men were arrested on Cat Island after they were found with US$7.8 million worth of cocaine in a joint operation involving US drug enforcement officers, DEA, and local officers.

Head of the Drug Enforcement Unit Superintendent Wendy Pearson said ‘while onboard a US helicopter on the southern tip of Cat Island, (we) observed two males in low-lying bushes along with a number or crocus sacks.

‘As a result of that, the officers landed where they proceeded into the low-lying bushes where they detained two males. They then checked those crocus sacks [and] discovered that each of those sacks contained a number of kilo packages of suspected cocaine.’

She said the men, ages 42 and 37, were arrested and taken to New Providence, where the drugs seized weighed 359 kilogrammes.

On Sunday, police, Customs officers and US officials, searched a container at a shipping port in Grand Bahama and found US$4.5 million worth of cocaine. No arrests were made in that matter. The drugs weighed 181 kilograms

US officials say cocaine seizures in the region have increased since 2021, noting that between 2017 and 2020, police seized 2,461.37 pounds of cocaine and between 2021 and 2024, the authorities seized 13,479.36 pounds of cocaine.

The West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) expresses condolences at the passing of Bernard Julien.

Bernard Denis Julien, born in 1950 in Carenage, Trinidad, played for the West Indies between 1973 and 1983 and was part of the winning 1975 World Cup team.

Bernard Julien was one of the players who received a life ban for touring South Africa in 1982-83. Julien died on Saturday, October 4, 2025, at the age of 75.

WIPA President and CEO, Wavell Hinds, remarked, ‘WIPA expresses sincere condolences to the friends and family of former West Indies cricketer Bernard Julien. May you find strength and peace amid your grief. We honour Bernard Julien’s lasting contribution to the game we love; may his soul rest in peace.

The President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Winston Anderson, Monday urged Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries that are not full members of the Trinidad-based court to do so, saying that since its establishment 20 years ago, the CCJ has produced a well deserved and proud record.

Addressing a special sitting to commemorate his inauguration as the the fourth president of the CCJ, Justice Anderson said that fist and foremost, the emphasis will be on the continued production of superior judgments and that the CCJ has firmly rooted the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) in the rule of law ensuring the rights of all Caribbean citizens are respected.

‘A sense of belonging to a community governed by law has begun to take shape in our region,’ he said with regards to the CCJ, which allows for the free movement of goods, skills, labour and services across the region.

While most countries are signatories to the Original Jurisdiction of the CCJ, only Barbados, Belize, Dominica, St. Lucia and Guyana are signatories to the Appellate Jurisdiction of the CCJ that was established on February 14, 2001 by the CARICOM governments to replace the London-based Privy Council. It also functions as an international tribunal interpreting the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas that governs the regional integration grouping.

The Jamaican-born jurist, who was sworn into office in Jamaica in July, said that he hopes during his tenure to continue progressing the efficiency and transparency of the CCJ’s work, noting that in the 20 years of its existence, the CCJ has accumulated a significant body of judicial precedents.

He said the court has delivered a total of 347 decisions comprising 40 in the Original Jurisdiction (OJ), including an advisory opinion and 307 decisions in the Appellate Jurisdiction (AJ) .

‘While our case load has been modest.the decisions of the court have begun to shape the way we, the Caribbean people, live our lives and how we see ourselves,’ Justice Anderson said, adding ‘I suspect that this view needs little advocacy in relation to the original jurisdiction in which all 12 CARICOM member sates participate’.

He acknowledged that the greater work remains to be done in relation to the appellate jurisdiction.

‘We hope, and have reason to believe, that the people of those member states who have acceded to the AJ, recognise our contribution, and we hope that those states which have not yet acceded, will ultimately come to appreciate the value the court offers to the region.

‘The existence of the CCJ has significantly increased the access by Caribbean citizens to final appellate justice,’ he added.

Justice Anderson said that for example, there were 19 appeals from Barbados to the Privy Council in the 20 years immediately before 2005, but in the 20 years since joining the CCJ, there have been 105 appeals from Barbados, an increase of over 450 per cent.

He said in the case of Belize, there were 33 appeals to the Privy Council in the 15 years before accession to the CCJ’s appellate jurisdiction in 2010 and that since then, there have been 56 appeals from Belize to the CCJ, an increase of over 69 per cent.

For Dominica, the numbers were three to the Privy Council in the 10 years before joining the AJ in 2015, and 10 in the 10 years since then, an increase of 233 per cent. St Lucia sent one appeal to the Privy Council in the two years immediately before joining the AJ in 2023 and sent five to the CCJ in the two years since, an increase of 400 percent.

Justice Anderson said that the average increase in appeals has been 288 per cent,’ adding that Guyana, which is the CCJ’s largest, and in that sense, ‘our best customer of our appellate services’ was not included since the country abolished appeals to the Privy Council in 1970.

Justice Anderson said that on the hypothesis of an average increase of 288 per cent in appeals, there would have been a significantly larger number of CCJ appellate decisions had there been full compliance with the obligation in the CCJ Agreement for all member states to join the appellant jurisdiction of the Court.

‘Instead of 307 decisions, there would have been approximately 1,200 decisions. The opportunity cost of non-accession can therefore be measured in terms of reduced access to justice, which is also a denial of justice. Equally, there is a corresponding loss in the opportunity to fulfil the mandate of the CCJ Agreement to develop a Caribbean jurisprudence that is responsive to all areas of Caribbean life. ‘

He said that while the CCJ awaits the accession by the remaining seven jurisdictions, an important phenomenon should not go unnoticed.

‘CCJ decisions in the appellate jurisdiction are given favourable treatment and are increasingly being cited and relied upon by the judiciaries in countries which have not yet acceded to the AJ.’

He said a recent Study indicates that there are at least 450 instances where courts in non-AJ countries have accepted and relied upon decisions of the CCJ in numerous areas, such as constitutional and statutory interpretation, criminal law and sentencing, enforcement of foreign judgments and awards, commercial law and adverse possession.

‘This trend is an encouraging sign for the development of a body of jurisprudence applicable across the entire region.’

Justice Anderson said that very soon, the CCJ will launch its new strategic plan for the next seven years, 2025-2032, reflecting its overarching mission to harness and advance the growth in Caribbean jurisprudence.

‘It embraces our vision of judicial excellence, supported by ever-evolving institutional capacities and competencies. Our core values remain a steadfast compass, and the lodestar continues to be the unrelenting pursuit of Justice.’

Justice Anderson said that the strategic plan recognises, as the first area for strategic priority and intervention, the continued delivery of high-quality judgments to the people and states of the Community.

‘It considers the efficient management of court operations to be essential to upholding the CCJ’s reputation for judicial excellence and independence. Our Bench and administrative support will maintain a constant line of sight to the mission and vision of the Court. The pride of place given in our strategic plan to the judicial output symbolizes in a powerful way that administrative and logistical activities of the court will be intentional in their support of the court’s overriding function. ‘

He said that an aspect of judicial decision-making to which keen attention will be paid is the need to provide clarity of judicial guidance from the apex court and that subject to the overriding principle of judicial independence, ‘we will endeavour to seek consensus and avoid a multiplicity of similar opinions.

‘Instead of nuances in the reasoning of similar opinions the court will prioritise the importance of speaking with a clear voice, presenting coherent guidance, and delivering transparent justice. We will constantly review our procedures for decision-making with a view to creating various opportunities for discussion, consensus, dissension, challenge and agreement, all of which are critical to the adjudicative process.’

The CCJ President said that over the past two decades, the court has benefitted from the expertise of judges from across the region and across the world from various ethnicities, religions, and legal backgrounds.

‘Matters that have come before us are inevitably viewed through varying lenses and perspectives. This has strongly influenced and strengthened our judicial reasoning and has also counselled against unnecessary juridical splintering.’

He said that another area requiring attention is the promotion of accessibility to the court’s decisions, noting ‘it is essential that we make our judgments easily available to our all stakeholders: judicial officers, legal practitioners, law students, and the public’.

He said that while the court’s website contains all the judgments, and the online Library Catalogue makes all judgments and publications of the court readily available ‘accessibility may require a deeper dive’, adding that ‘searchability of judgments is essential to ensuring that relevant cases are followed or cited, as appropriate’.

He said this is where technology can play a vital role and that the CCJ in partnership with the Caribbean Agency for Justice Solutions (CAJS), has sought to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI), with the hope of harnessing its transformative benefits.

But even as he spoke of the contribution AI can make ln ‘fulfilling our responsibility to deliver justice efficiently, to protect and safeguard fundamental rights, and to uphold the rule of law in a rapidly evolving world,’ Justice Anderson said ‘we considered it prudent to issue earlier this year, a Practice Direction on the proper use of generative AI in court proceedings.

‘Recent unfortunate developments in some of our jurisdictions such Trinidad and Tobago and in The Bahamas where cases hallucinated by AI were cited by counsel and properly deprecated by the court, emphasize the need for vigilance in preserving the integrity of our judicial proceedings.

‘At the CCJ, we will continue to monitor the advancements in this field, and to responsibly incorporate emerging technologies to support our work.’

Just over a month after leading his newly formed We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) political party to become the main opposition party in the National Assembly, businessman Azruddin Mohamed, has been indicted by a United States grand jury on several fraud related charges.

US authorities said that Mohamed and his businessman father Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohamed have been charged with wire and mail fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, stemming from tax evasion on gold exports and the importation of a Lamborghini luxury car

If found guilty on the charges of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, the Mohameds, who were sanctioned by the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in June last year, could separately face a maximum of 20 years on each count, as well as maximum supervised release of three years, a maximum fine of US$250,000 or twice the gross pecuniary gain or loss.

On the charges of wire fraud, the politician businessman could also be sentenced to 20 years imprisonment and maximum supervised release of three years and a fine of US$250,000 or twice the gross pecuniary gain or loss.

The Grand Jury is also seeking a maximum of 20 years imprisonment, three years supervised release and a fine of US$500,000 or the value of the property involved in the transaction for conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The US is also asking the court that ‘upon conviction.as alleged in this Indictment, the defendants ‘shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to such offense.’

The indictment states that the property directly subject to forfeiture as a result of the alleged offenses includes, but is not limited to, the following: a shipment containing approximately US$5.3 million in gold bars shipped from Guyana by Mohamed ‘s Enterprise seized at Miami International Airport on June 11 , 2024.

The unsealed indictment states that in the case of Azruddin Mohamed, from in or around 2017, and continuing through on or about June 11 , 2024, in Miami-Dade County in the Southern District of Florida, and elsewhere, the defendants, did knowingly, and with the intent to further the objects of the conspiracy, combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with each other and others, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to commit offenses against the United States.

The indictment states that the purpose of the conspiracy was for the defendants to unlawfully enrich themselves and defraud the government of Guyana in connection with taxes and royalties owed.

The US accuses the Mohameds of reusing empty boxes with intact Guyana Revenue Authority and Guyana Gold Board seals for ‘shipments of gold to make it appear that Mohamed’s Enterprise had paid Guyana taxes and royalties on shipments of gold when, in truth and in fact, Mohamed’s Enterprise had not paid them on those shipments of gold.’

The Grand Jury also accuses the Mohameds of paying bribes to Guyanese government officials, including customs officials, so that customs officials would accept shipments of gold by Mohamed’s Enterprise with duplicate paperwork and reused seals thereby avoiding the proper payment of Guyanese taxes and royalties GRA and GGB seals from Miami to Mohamed’s Enterprise office in Guyana.

‘Nazar Mohamed and Azruddin Mohamed reused empty boxes with intact GRA and GGB seals for shipments of gold to make it appear that Mohamed’s Enterprise had paid Guyana taxes and royalties on shipments of gold when, in truth and in fact, Mohamed’s Enterprise had not paid them on those shipments of gold,’ the court document states.

In terms of the Lamborghini purchase and exportation to Guyana, the US Grand jury states he directed an unnamed individual to acquire a Lamborghini from California that cost approximately $680,000 for his benefit, caused the shipment of the Lamborghini via private and commercial interstate carrier from Miami to Guyana.

He also directed ‘Individual 1’ to create an invoice to make it falsely appear that the Lamborghini cost $US75,300 when, in truth and in fact, the Lamborghini cost approximately US$680,000, and caused the false Lamborghini invoice to be presented to the GRA and thereby avoided over one million dollars in taxes he owed to the GRA.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has quietly carried out a minor re-shuffle of her cabinet less than six months after winning the April 28 general elections in Trinidad and Tobago.

While she did not remove any minister from her cabinet and has so far not made any public statement regarding the changes, the changes took effect from October 3, and were published in the official Gazette a day later.

As a result of the changes, the 73-year-old Persad Bissessar takes on several new responsibilities particularly in the areas of housing grants and self-help programmes. She has taken direct control of the Home Improvement Grants Policy, the Housing and Village Improvement Programme (HVIP), and the Government Aided Self-Help Housing Programme (GASHHP).

Persad Bissessar has also assumed direct responsibility for the portfolio of Constitutional Reform.

Changes were also made to portfolios of eight ministers among them being that the leader of Government Business, Barry Padarath who is also Public Utilities Minister, Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, being given additional responsibilities that were under the portfolio of Energy Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal.

The National Health Insurance System (NIS) was moved from the Ministry of Health to Finance Minister Davendranath Tancoo, who is also Minister in the Ministry of Planning, Economic Affairs and Development.

Tancoo was also given responsibility for the Export-Import Bank of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (Eximbank), which was moved from Minister of Trade, Investment and Tourism Satyakama Maharaj.

In national security, the prison system was removed from Justice Minister Devesh Maharaj and placed under the control of Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander.

Opposition Chief Whip, Marvin Gonzales, is questioning why Alexander has been put in charge of matters in the Prisons Service, when he has not addressed allegations in the public domain about visits to the prisons to meet certain inmates.

‘People were expecting a date for delivery of the 2026 budget, not changes in portfolios,’ Gonzales said regarding the reassigning of several ministerial portfolios, including Alexander’s.

‘These changes are a clear sign of internal instability in the Government just five months into office, and the Prime Minister is trying to manage.

‘The Prime Minister maintains the prerogative to make changes to Cabinet portfolios, but just five months into office, during which she installed the largest Cabinet with many ministers receiving salaries yet spending more time blogging, we’re now seeing changes in ministerial portfolios, like Finance Minister (Dave) Tancoo being stripped of key responsibilities like the Valuation Division, and other ministers stripped of the Self-Help programme and Lands.

‘So clearly there’s more in the proverbial mortar than the pestle. For instance, how come the Minister of Justice isn’t responsible for criminal justice?’ Gonzales added.

Political analyst Dr Bishnu Ragoonath told the Trinidad Guardian newspaper that while some portfolio changes can be described as fine-tuning the work of the respective ministries, there are some critical changes.

‘To start with, the Prime Minister is taking the responsibility for Self-Help and social grants. It was clear that under the previous government, there were concerns about how Self-Help was distributed, particularly as elections approached.

‘The PM has decided that this will now fall under her office, and that is critical in determining who gets what. More importantly, with her being the one to dispense, it takes away from other ministers who may have been seen to have the power of patronage. But are we sure it is the PM who will determine who gets what, when, and how?,’ he added.

Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw found the back of the net once again as Manchester City got past Arsenal 3-2 in a thrilling contest to move up to second place in the Women’s Super League here on Saturday.

The Jamaican international gave her side the lead in the 35th minute when she nodded in Kerstin Casparij’s cross to score her fourth goal in five matches.

Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw scored her fourth goal of the season to help Manchester City defeat Arsenal

However, Mariona Caldentey curled in a fine effort from 20 yards a minute into the second half to bring Arsenal on level terms.

City retook the lead when Casparij and Shaw combined again, this time with the former bundling home from close range in the 61st minute to make it 2-1.

Chloe Kelly looked to have given Arsenal a share of the spoils when she bent in a fine strike from the edge of the area, via a slight deflection, with seven minutes left to spark wild celebrations.

But Iman Beney netted an 88th-minute winner after evading Lotte Wubben-Moy’s weak challenge before slotting in her debut WSL goal.