SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — Councillor for the Santa Cruz Division Christopher Williams is urging the Government to step up its pace and investment in the national closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance system, Jamaica...

GORDON “Butch” Stewart has joined the pantheon of St Lucian stars in posthumously receiving that country's third highest honour, the St Lucia Cross (SLC).The award celebrates the late Sandals Resorts International (SRI...

THE roll-out of the country's COVID-19 vaccination programme has been set back by at least a week, as the shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines that were to arrive from India today has now been rescheduled.

PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Jasford Gabriel has welcomed the inclusion of educators in the first batch of persons targeted for the COVID-19 jab even as the entity is engaging in another round of canvassing...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The three people who were charged with murder in relation to the November 26, 2020 stabbing death of 63-year-old businesswoman Marcia Chin-you had their bail extended when they appeared in the Manche...

NEW United States President Joseph Biden's plans to secure delivery of enough coronavirus vaccines for all Americans by May, and got the thumbs yesterday in Parliament, as a positive for the ailing Jamaican economy. ...

THE dreaded novel coronavirus has left a family in the Corporate Area community of Kingston Gardens in despair after it claimed the life of the matriarch and left one of her daughters in a coma.All other members of the family who ...

A blind man makes his way in busy downtown Kingston on Tuesday.(Photo: Joseph Wellington) 

SHAKEIRA Ayton was overjoyed as she received the keys to her new house from Food for the Poor through a donation from the National Baking Company Foundation.“I feel wonderful, I give thanks,” said Ayton, a single mothe...

LONG-TIME Trench Town resident and People's National Party (PNP) stalwart Evadney Moodie was last Saturday eulogised as a God-fearing woman who never resiled from speaking her mind, even at the risk of losing friendships.Moodie, w...

PROGRAMME director of the national identification System (NIDS), Warren Vernon, on Tuesday assured members of the joint select committee (JSC) reviewing the legislation that he is confident in the standards being followed to avoid...

Christopher Locke, the St Catherine man who was in 2017 sentenced to life behind bars with 40 years before parole for burning his ex-girlfriend alive, last week lost his bid to have his sentence reduced by the Appeal Court. ...

Today is the 63rd day of 2021. There are 302 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1829: An unruly crowd mobs the White House during the inaugural reception for US President Andrew Jackson.OTHER EVENTS1632: Sweden's King Gustavus...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – Two Nigerian nurses were attacked by the family of a deceased COVID-19 patient. One nurse had her hair ripped out and suffered a fracture. The second was beaten into a coma.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, March 4, 2021:Privat e, intimate and autonomous, you need a cozy place in which to exist. You produce your best work this year, and it is very successful. If single, you so crave creative isolation tha...

With indications by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton that the Government's ambitious COVID-19 vaccination roll-out plan stands to be staggered, not by the lack of potions but more by a shortage of personnel to ad...

THE joint select committee of Parliament currently reviewing the Sexual Harassment Bill has been considering increasing fines for breaches of the legislation from a maximum $1 million to $3 million.However, committee members had r...

Four port employees are among five people charged in connection with a major drug bust at Kingston Freeport Terminal last month.

DUNCANS, Trelawny — Forty-year-old farmer Nadeen Geddes who pleaded guilty to the murder of her sister, 36-year-old Tamara Geddes, last year, was sentenced to 20 years in prison at hard labour in the Trelawny Circuit Court y...

KINGSTON Public Hospital (KPH) is the first of seven health facilities to receive medical supplies and equipment valued at approximately $260 million from the Japanese Government in aid in the fight against the novel coronavirus.T...

The global music industry yesterday joined Jamaica in mourning the passing of Bunny Wailer, a co-founder and the last surviving member of the island's iconic reggae group The Wailers that included Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.Bunny W...

Today is the 62nd day of 2021. There are 303 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1999: An estimated 74 million US viewers watch former White House intern Monica Lewinsky confess the details of her affair with US President Bill ...

PARLIAMENT has outlined changes to the meeting of the Standing Finance Committee scheduled to examine the 2021–2022 Estimates of Expenditure and related documents today and tomorrow.

MARK Brantley, premier of Nevis and foreign affairs minister of St Kitts and Nevis, has extended gratitude to the Government and people of India for a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines that arrived in the federation Monday.“We w...

MAY PEN, Clarendon — The Clarendon police have warned motorists to be careful when traversing the major thoroughfares in that parish, especially along the toll road, as criminals have been setting traps across the roads that...