A decision by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to promote some of its members on the condition that they accept the COVID-19 vaccine has created tension among rank-and-file members, several of whom are threatening to walk off the jo...

THE Government is holding talks with a number of prospective investors on projects that are expected to establish 400 acres of additional special economic zone (SEZ) space across the island, estimated at a value of more than US$1.3 bill...

THE driver of the Clarendon College bus which was involved in Tuesday's crash on New Road in Clarendon succumbed to his injuries yesterday. He has been identified as 56-year-old Keith Dunkley, who resided at Woodhall District in the par...

The 211 children helpline, which is to be launched by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information this month, has received the endorsement of the Office of the Children's Advocate (OCA) .The helpline will be available for use by c...

AFTER decades of announcements and millions of dollars in allocations which petered out to nothing, another Administration is yet again attempting to breathe life into shelved plans to construct a public morgue.A planned $555.9 million ...

After a two-year battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, 17-year-old Rojea McCook learnt in April that the cancer had returned more aggressively, spreading from his neck to his stomach. Now his mother, Nadine Morris, who had remained optimisti...

This object has been placed at the intersection of Half-Way-Tree Road and Retirement Road in Kingston 5 to prevent motorists from driving over a section of the road which broke away recently. It, however, has been causing traffic to bac...

Today is the126th day of 2021. There are 239 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1937: The hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burns and crashes in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 people on-board and a navy crewman ...

MALVERN, St Elizabeth - Principal of Hampton School Mahvell Charlton-Brown is heaping praise on the girls' school's past students for their consistent support which has helped the school maintain high standards, even during the current...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - A number of hardware stores in south-central Jamaica are complaining that they have not been able to meet cement demand over recent days because of what some are calling a "shortage" of the vital construction ma...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change Pearnel Charles Jr has promised a comprehensive national housing policy to address Jamaica's complex housing challenges.Making his contribution to the sectoral debate i...

MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for Clarendon northern and member of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Dwight Sibbles has called for urgent attention to be given to allegations of corruption and fraud in the farm work programme, wh...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Former Custos of Manchester Dr Gilbert Allen, who died at age 92, was yesterday interred at the Oaklawn Memorial Gardens following two days of public viewing of the body of the medical doctor.Dr Allen died on Fr...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - The Antigua and Barbuda Government has entered into a partnership with a local company in a campaign designed at getting nationals vaccinated as part of the efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus....

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) - A High Court judge will on June 21 sentence Sherman Webb, who has pleaded guilty to the murder of a 23-year-old The University of the West Indies (UWI) student from Barbados more than 10 years ago during an occu...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union is planning to tighten rules on foreign investment in its 27 members and boost production autonomy for sensitive strategic goods, two measures bound to hit China - amid already precarious rela...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, May 6, 2021: You are warm, charming and sociable. You are also eloquent and persuasive! As your new year begins, you're entering a year of learning and teaching. This is why you will expand your world throug...

Leslie Harrow yesterday denied that he had resigned from the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) as reported by both the Jamaica Observer and The Gleaner, saying that he was shocked when he saw the front-pag...

Students scheduled to sit exit exams this year will, as of May 10, resume face-to-face interactions with their teachers, but their counterparts in lower grades will have to wait a while longer, the Government stated yesterday.This as au...

JUSTICE Minister Delroy Chuck says that both the Government and the public are expecting timely trials, strong pronouncements from the bench, as well as harsh sentences, where appropriate, as the consequences of criminal activities in J...

In three weeks from today, all Jamaican Ephraim Martin will need is half of the Chicago City Council to vote in his favour to rename an iconic street in the Windy City after a black Haitian man, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, its underst...

Jamaicans are to continue under the regime of tightened curfew hours and restrictions for at least another four weeks an apologetic Prime Minister Andrew Holness indicated last evening, even while warning those he said seem "hell-bent"...

Renford Mowen, the taxi driver who died in yesterday's three-vehicle collision on New Road in Clarendon, had a near-death experience a month ago when a car he was driving burst into flames, forcing him to flee, according to one of his ...

Jamaica Producers Group Chairman Charles Johnston (second left) shares insights on banana harvesting with Kim Del Mundo (left), and British High Commissioner to Jamaica Asif Ahmad (second right) during a tour of a section of the expansi...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - More than 60 people were arrested and charged with breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) by the Westmoreland police who swooped down on two illegal parties in full swing in Savanna-la-Mar on ...

KNOX College head boy and high achiever Niguel Walker dreams of becoming a doctor. But after losing his dad to illness last year and then watching his mother - a farmer - suffer her second stroke, the teen knows that accomplishing that ...

Today is the 125th day of 2021. There are 240 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1862: Mexican army defeats invading French forces in the Battle of Puebla. May 5 is now Mexico's National Day, Cinco de Mayo. OTHER EVENTS1494: During...

THE Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) has launched investigations into recent sexual abuse cases involving a 13-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy in St Ann. The agency said on April 26, 2021 the girl, from the Gold...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Educators are worried that the future of Jamaica's children is not only in jeopardy due to significant learning loss caused by setbacks, but that there seems to be no end in sight for the challenges being faced ...

FLORIDA, United States (CMC) - The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) says its major showpiece, Caribbean Travel Marketplace, will offer buyers from around the world a chance to refresh their portfolios as they prepare for t...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - The La Soufriere volcano has been displaying "spectacular" mudflows, but the scientists say the seismic activity has remained low since the tremor associated with the explosion and ash on April 22.Seismolog...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) - An elevated section of the Mexico City metro collapsed and sent the train plunging toward a busy boulevard late Monday, killing at least 23 people and injuring at least 79, city officials said. Rescuers found ...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - Sotero Cirilo sleeps in a small blue tent under a train track bridge in Elmhurst, Queens. The 55-year-old immigrant from Mexico used to make $800 per week at two Manhattan restaurants, which closed when th...

NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Novel coronavirus infections and COVID-19 deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis and a top expert warning that the coming weeks in the country of nearly 1.4 billion pe...

The House of Representatives yesterday paid glowing tributes to former Cabinet minister and diplomat Ambassador Anthony Johnson, who passed away last Wednesday at the age of 82 after being unwell for some time.Johnson became a member of...

GOVERNMENT is looking to provide children in State care with increased access to psychosocial analysis as part of its plans to combat sexual abuse among them.Robert Morgan, minister of state in the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Info...

The Jamaica Police Federation yesterday described as "an insult" the Government's offer of a 2.5 per cent wage increase and said it "will not be bullied" into accepting any package that does not provide its members with remuneration co...

MAYOR of Kingston Senator Delroy Williams has condemned the beating of three homeless people in Kingston while they were asleep on Sunday night."I cannot but reiterate that it speaks to the awful state of affairs within the conscience o...

STATE and international child rights agencies are calling attention to an urgent need for more mental health services for abused children, and those who are victims of violence, as part of the national support system for minors. "There ...

THE Government is moving to increase psychosocial intervention to reduce the impact of violence on children.Figures released by Minister of Education, Youth and Information Fayval Williams during her presentation in the sectoral debate ...

Six months after he was appointed to head the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), long-time public servant Leslie Harrow has quit following what is alleged to be political interference in the performance o...

SCOTT'S PASS, Clarendon - Hundreds of motorists were yesterday left stranded for up to four hours as irate taxi operators and residents of Scott's Pass blocked a section of the main road leading to Porus at the Clarendon/ Manchester bor...

It is almost three years since 14-year-old Yetanya Francis was raped, stabbed and burnt while innocently venturing out to buy a meal from a community shop in Arnett Gardens, St Andrew.But for her mother, 38-year-old Latoya Riley, it has...

Today is the 124th day of 2021. There are 241 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1927: After 2 1/2 years the Hermitage Dam on the Wag Water River in eastern Jamaica is opened. It is 142ft high, 465ft wide, has a capacity of 430 mill...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police here are investigating a hit-and-run and a murder that happened yesterday involving two men.In the first incident, the police said, a man believed to be of unsound mind was killed in a hit-and-run on the ...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - The St Vincent and the Grenadines Government says it has ordered 50,000 doses of the Russia-developed Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine as nationals continue to refuse taking the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to help...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - Prime Minister Gaston Browne has warned of the possibility of implementing a mandatory vaccination programme in Antigua and Barbuda as he criticised persons who were encouraging others not to participate in th...

DIRECTOR of Family Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Dr Melody Ennis says global collaboration, through funding and exchange of knowledge and technology, was among the major factors that facilitated the speedy devel...

THE American Government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), last Friday handed over its fourth tranche of emergency equipment to the Ministry of Health and Wellness to support Government's response to the coron...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) - At least 17 people died and more than 800 were wounded in clashes that broke out in Colombia during five days of protests against a proposed government tax reform, authorities said yesterday.The Office of the Co...