MINISTER of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton says the Government has been in communication with the United States and is hoping that Jamaica will be one of the beneficiaries of the 60 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to be...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers says a high-level investigation that has been launched into the conduct of a newly-wed couple seen in a photo toting firearms will be widened to include other pe...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The US will begin sharing its entire stock of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines with the world once it clears federal safety reviews, the White House said yesterday, with as many as 60 million doses expe...

YOUNGSTERS at the Alpha Institute on South Camp Road in Kingston will benefit from two projects designed to provide skills training and sustainable development for music education, which were launched Monday.Both projects - the construc...

Dr Ransford Davidson, business relationship and sales manager at JN Bank, is encouraging Jamaicans not to be daunted by the many challenges that the health pandemic has created.Davidson advised persons to identify the opportunities with...

CONCERNS that students are not meeting coursework requirements ahead of Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations scheduled to begin in May have prompted a call for Government to resume face-to-face classes for "prio...

A church leader in western Jamaica emerged as the lone voice of support for embattled parliamentarian George Wright yesterday as three of the country's powerful interest groups added more weight to calls for his resignation.Wright, the ...

POLICE at the St Andrew South Police Division say a group of robbers has been using women as bait to lure unsuspecting men into communities within the division, where they are then held up and robbed.Based on reports, the women reach ou...

Today is the 117th day of 2021. There are 248 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2000: Palaeontologists unveil the most complete ape-man skull ever excavated, a 1.5-million to 2-million-year-old skull of a female Paranthropus robust...

The driver of this Toyota Fortuner SUV is counting his blessings after he escaped unhurt when his vehicle crashed on Marcus Garvey Drive in St Andrew, yesterday.The driver says he was 'bad driven' by another motorist, which caused his v...

SANTIAGO, Chile (CMC) - The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says experts attending its 33rd Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy have stressed the need to create a new financing model in the region.ECLAC sai...

NEW DELHI, INDIA (AP) - Dr Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signalling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his desperately ill patients start gasping for air in the New Delhi emergency ward wh...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, April 27, 2021: Protective, persevering and creative, you know how to keep a steady hand on the helm. This year, you might struggle more than usual to remain calm, but your cool head will always prevail. Avoi...

Government Senator Kamina Johnson Smith last Friday resurrected the 2014 drama surrounding e-mail threats she had claimed to have received from a colleague across the floor while she was on the Opposition benches.Johnson Smith, who has...

One of the stalwarts of Jamaica's tourism industry and a long-serving executive of Sandals Resorts International (SRI), David Roper, passed away early yesterday morning after ailing for some time. He was 66.Yesterday, SRI described Rope...

With the help of world media, COVID CAPERS recalls some of the more well-known personalities who felt the brutal sting of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19.French President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for the virus last December, a...

The Spectrum Management Authority (SMA) has rejected claims of a conflict of interest when it entered into a commercial transaction with SynCon Technologies in 2017 to provide equipment to help with data security and reduced hardware c...

Jamaicans under stress from the novel coronavirus pandemic and the shutdown of social events are turning more and more to innovative forms of entertainment. This was evident in August Town, St Andrew, yesterday as adults and children e...

There is general excitement in the Franklin Town community of central Kingston.That's because police and residents alike, who cited the absence of a proper police facility as a contributing factor to conflicts between rival gangs from ...

"Ramesses", 40-year-old vendor: "If you make a will, then you prepare to die. Young man like me must make a will? I do not have enough things either. Mostly people who are about to die make wills, especially those who are rich and do no...

Opposition Senator Damion Crawford is urging the Government to resume face-to-face classes for students sitting Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) subjects as thousands of Jamaican children struggle to prepare for the external examin...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Manchester Central Member of Parliament Rhoda Moy Crawford is calling for improved linkages between agencies such as the National Works Agency (NWA), the Manchester Municipal Corporation and National Water Commi...

For entrepreneur Marlon Phillips, the 2016 winner of the JN Small Business Loans (JNSBL) Barber and Beauty Battle, the novel coronavirus pandemic has been a steep learning curve. Phillips, the owner of First Class Images, explained tha...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - With schools remaining closed and the demand for virtual learning continually growing, just over 100 additional students in central Manchester have received well-needed electronic devices to access online learni...

Jamaicans are again being urged to ensure that they prepare a last will and testament to prevent fights over any assets they leave behind when they die.Since the novel coronavirus pandemic hit the island last March some local lawyers ha...

It will come as no surprise to most of us but a Jamaican is the first black Republican woman to throw her hat in the ring to run for lieutenant governor of Virginia, United States, according to ABC 8News.Winsome Earle Sears, 54 who emig...

The National Works Agency (NWA) over the weekend started hot mix patching work on a section of Burke Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine.But that was little comfort to motorists and pedestrians who have been facing challenges for weeks w...

Alaska, USA (AP) - Alaska Airlines has ban ned an Alaska state senator for refusing to follow mask requirements. "We have notified Senator Lora Reinbold that she is not permitted to fly with us for her continued refusal to comply with e...

NEW DELHI, India (AP) - With life-saving oxygen in short supply, family members in India are left on their own to ferry novel coronavirus patients from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country is engulfed in a devasta...

Today is the 116th day of 2021. There are 249 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1986: The world's worst nuclear accident occurs at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union when a reactor meltdown in a power plant exposes hundreds of...

Baghdad, Iraq (AFP) - More than 80 people died yesterday when a fire ripped through a Baghdad hospital for COVID-19 patients, sparking outrage and the suspension of top officials overseeing Iraq's crumbling health services. The blaze a...

ORLANDO, Florida (AP) - Shots using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine resumed yesterday at federally supported mass vaccination sites throughout Florida, state emergency officials said.The Florida Division of Emergency Management tweete...

 Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of National Security Matthew Samuda is slated to update Cabinet on the readiness for a national roll-out of ENDS at the sitting of the Cabinet today.One entity which will welcome the islandwi...

HEAD of the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch (PSTEB) Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Gary McKenzie is appealing to non-essential workers to stay home during the curfew hours.The PTSEB boss appeal comes on the heels of ...

The conditional release of seven men accused of murder and other crimes last week has triggered a legal debate between a defence attorney and prosecutors about abuse of process.Peter Champagnie, QC, whose client Andrew "Livity" Coke is...

LEARNING from home has hit the majority of students across the Caribbean region, with the greatest challenge being the difficulty in focusing on schoolwork.A recent study ­- Insult to Injury: The Impact of C-19 on Vulnerable Communitie...

Geneive Belford had her reservations but went willingly to the Portmore HEART Academy vaccination centre in St Catherine on Sunday, April 11, 2021 to accept dose one of the two-dose AstraZeneca inoculation on offer. Four days later, th...

TWO leading attorneys-at-law in Jamaica have said that over the years, there have been numerous instances where allegations of sexual abuse have been made which have ultimately turned out to be false.Unfortunately, the attorneys said th...

THE sisters of Sergeant Duliet McKay, who has been locked up for over a year awaiting trial, are growing impatient and frustrated with the court for refusing to grant her bail. They have also questioned whether her continued detention i...

WASHINGTON, DC, USA - Award-winning international reggae artiste Orville "Shaggy" Burrell will join Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States Audrey Marks as her special guest on the monthly chat series, Let's Connect with Ambassador M...

Fabianique Powell plans to ace the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) this year, even as she grieves the death of her mother in a horrific motor vehicle crash two Mondays ago."My preparation for PEP is going quite well. She is going to always b...

All it takes for something to go wrong is for misinformed 'dark' and dunce individuals to start spreading a rumour and hell breaks loose.The nurse who gave now deceased media practitioner Michael Sharpe his first dose of COVID-19 vacci...

ONE of the greatest anchors to man in turbulence is hope. Hope is that quality that constantly looks for better.In Ancient Greek consciousness, their chief god, Zeus, gifted the first woman, Pandora, a jar or a box. She was told not to ...

A topic often met with shame and silence, erectile dysfunction (ED), also known as impotence, has affected millions of men across all ages and ethnicities worldwide.The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that in 1995, globally, mo...

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has announced that a new dragon will enter the Den for Season 16 of the reality show Dragons Den.Executive chairman and founder of Kingsdale Advisors and founder and chairman of BlackNorth Initi...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Back in 2015, when a spanking new meeting room with related facilities was opened with much fanfare, its relatively confined size and space seemed only a minor issue for political representatives and staff at...

Jamaicans are being encouraged by Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange to write and publish their own stories.Speaking during a virtual celebration of World Book and Copyright Day 2021, last Friday, Grange...

IF someone gets a headache or feels a bit under the weather after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, it's become common to hear them say something like, "Oh, it just means my immune system is really working hard." On the flip side, when peop...

DATA from the Jamaica Family Planning Association (FAMPLAN/JFPA) has revealed that the COVID-19 restrictions faced in 2020 negatively impacted the antenatal care (ANC) services and family planning services the institution offers.Last ye...

THE warmer weather and longer days have inspired reminders to "stay hydrated" and drink eight glasses of water - or about two litres - a day. Not to burst anyone's water bottle, but healthy people can actually die from drinking too much...