Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has rejected Opposition counterpart Dr Morais Guy's criticism of the ministry's handling of information relating to cases of the variant strain of COVID-19 on the island. ...

STUDENTS at some teachers' colleges across the island have launched an online petition against a decision to have them sit examinations face-to face for the new academic year in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic. ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Some school leaders in this south-central parish are hopeful that students who were left at a disadvantage last year due to limitations of Internet connectivity and access to devices, will turn out f...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann – As the COVID-19 cases continue to increase in St Ann, ranking it the parish with the fifth-highest number of infections, some schools selected for face-to-face resumption in the 2021 academic semester hav...

High schools across the Corporate Area that were given the green light by the Ministry of Education to resume face-to-face classes this January remained closed yesterday.Continuing with the phased reopening of schools for the new...

Statement from Adam Stewart on the passing of his father:IT is with great sadness that I share with you today the passing of our Founder and Chairman, and my father, Gordon “Butch” Stewart.This news seems almost unbeli...

Today is the fifth day of 2021. There are 360 days left in the year.TODAY IN HISTORY2000: US Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Doris Meissner rules that six-year-old Elian Gonzalez “belongs with his father&...

MORE patients at Bustamante Hospital for Children will benefit from the Paediatric Cancer Fund following the recent donation of $1 million to the institution by the Flow Foundation.The annual donation was made during a surprise tr...

ACTING assistant commissioner and officer in charge of the Fire Prevention Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) Emeleo Ebanks is encouraging Jamaicans to report any leaking fire hydrants in their communities. ...

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (CMC) — Prime Minister Andrew Fahie has urged the owners of motorcycles across the territory to equip them with silencers.Speaking during a recent sitting in the House of Assembly, the premier...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Face-to-face services at churches, mosques and other places of worship across the island will be discontinued with immediate effect.The announcement was made on Saturday, following a meeting of r...

MILAN, Italy (AP) — Shareholders of Fiat Chrysler and PSA Peugeot voted yesterday to merge and create the world's fourth-largest auto company which, its architects hope, can more readily take on an enormous technological shi...

MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) — A Wisconsin pharmacist convinced the world was “crashing down” told police he tried to ruin hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine because he believed the shots would mutate people's D...

The campaign to vanquish the coronavirus is picking up speed in places, with Britain beginning to dispense the second vaccine in its arsenal Monday. But authorities in France and elsewhere in Europe are coming under fire for slow...

USA, AP — Slack , the messaging service used by millions of people for work and school, suffered a global outage on Monday, the first day back for most people returning from the new year's holiday. It's the latest tech gli...

WASHINGTON, USA (CMC) – The Organisation of American States (OAS) says a new report prepared by its General Secretariat has warned that the number of Venezuelan refugees and migrants could rise to seven million in 2021 if re...

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) — In an extraordinary rebuke of President Donald Trump, all 10 living former secretaries of defence are cautioning against any move to involve the military in pursuing claims of election fraud,...

GEORGIA, USA (AP) — President Donald Trump put forth a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone call to Georgia's secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election defeat, fa...

WITH the Government outlining the top 20 communities in the island with active cases just this weekend, Opposition spokesperson on health and wellness Dr Morais Guy is cautioning that even if schools in these areas are seen as ...

MEMBER of Parliament for Kingston East and Port Royal Phillip Paulwell is urging the Government to rapidly respond to the cries of residents of Harbour Heights for assistance to prevent further flooding and damage there, warning t...

OPPOSITION spokesperson on health and wellness, Dr Morais Guy has a problem with some of the things that Chief Medical Officer Dr Jacquiline Bisasor McKenzie has been saying about the variant of the COVID-19 virus. ...

Caretaker at Spanish Town Infant School Curtis Reid adds final touches to preparations for the start of the new school term today.In an address to the nation late last night, Education Minister Fayval Williams expressed the hope t...

COKER, St Elizabeth — Residents of this quiet, farming community have pinned the blame on the sustained absence of piped water in their community for Saturday's tragedy in which two teenaged girls were swept away in the rive...

Christmas 2020 will best be remembered for the negative impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic more than anything else. But, nonetheless, there will be some kind features to recall.

ANNOTTO BAY, St Mary – Charity organisation, Icons of Annotto Bay, with the help of sponsors, successfully treated needy pupils and students from institutions in St Mary and Portland with school-based items on New Year's Day...