CLARK'S TOWN, Trelawny - Stephina "Apple" Ralston was yesterday nonplussed when she did not get an opportunity to speak with her "partner", 34-year-old Anthony Bailey, whom she is adamant she has forgiven for brutally attacking her with...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The police yesterday charged pastor of the New Life Apostolic Church in Montego Bay with raping a 15-year-old member of the church.The man of the cloth has been identified as 39-year-old Jason Omar Rose, who is a...

LOGWOOD, Hanover - A joint military/police patrol was deployed to this community yesterday in response to rising tension after two people were shot dead and two others injured. Sixteen-year-old student Radray Martinez from Orange Bay ...

THE Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has recommended that the Government negotiates with Jamaica Public Service (JPS) to provide a licence amendment which would exclude electric vehicle (EV) charging from an activity that would be c...

ONLY eight per cent of Jamaican children are having their mental-health needs met because of the inability to attract professionals to care for them due to low wages and poor working conditions, according to the findings of a Caribbean ...

THE early morning peace at Rae Town Fishing Village in Kingston was disrupted by gunfire about 6:30 yesterday morning when three armed men reportedly entered the area, opened fire and shot four people - three men and a woman.The men - a...

President of the Kiwanis Club of Stony Hill Leighton James (left) presents a printer to SergeantAdrian Clarke of the Stony Hill Police Station in St Andrew. At right is the club's DistinguishedPresident Nadeen Francis. The presentation ...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange says changes coming to the Domestic Violence Act, which will include a new definition of domestic violence.Grange told the House of Representatives, in her sectoral deb...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Throughout the years, those attending monthly meetings of the St Elizabeth Parish Council have grown accustomed to complaints about services offered by electricity provider, Jamaica Public Service Company (JP...

LOCAL Government Minister Desmond McKenzie yesterday urged Jamaicans to continue to blowing the whistle on entities conducting illegal events in breach of COVID-19 restrictions, declaring that the Government will not be playing favourit...

Today is the161st day of 2021. There are 204 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1940: Jamaican-born pan-African nationalist Marcus Garvey dies in London at 52. OTHER EVENTS1898: US Marines invade Cuba in Spanish-American War.1935: ...

Government is implementing a range of policy, legislative, and institutional measures that will support the management of coastal and marine environments, says minister of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Se...

KEVIN Peart, father of 14-year-old Ferncourt High School student Kelvin Peart, who has been conducting classes to help primary school children in the community of Queenhythe in St Ann, has called on fathers to be pillars of support and ...

THE National Association of Deans of Discipline (NADD) will host the final of four virtual behaviour expositions tomorrow.The exposition, according to organisers, seeks to engage more than 5,000 high school students from across Jamaica ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - Director 0f the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa F Etienne has called on authorities in the Caribbean to be fully prepared for the 2021 hurricane season.Dr Etienne warned that the ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, June 10, 2021: You are mentally sharp and creative, and you love music. You are independent and persistent. You are also generous. You are entering a busy, fast-paced year full of many different kinds of act...

A mere four days after 49-year-old Ava Thelwell drove her car off Flat Bridge into the Rio Cobre and drowned, another woman died in the waterway yesterday after the passenger bus in which she was travelling crashed with a motor car in t...

Susan Smart lost her battle to stay alive yesterday, plunging her family into further grief.Smart was on life support in Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James after suffering injuries in a car crash in Hanover on Sunday, just over two ...

"I am not an obeah man," insisted "Sean Michaels".The resoluteness in the 24-year-old Jamaican hypnotist's voice was obvious. The young man, whose real name is Sean Davidson, cognisant of what some Jamaicans think of hypnotism, told the...

The Government is rolling out a Conditional Cash Transfer for the Vaccinated (CCTV) subprogramme to encourage more Jamaicans over the age of 60 to get fully vaccinated.Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke told the ...

FOR some children, farming has been a nurtured passion, and not just a hobby developed amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.Numbered among those children are four who, with support from their parents, are on a course to pursue farming as...

The Integrity Commission has recommended that criminal charges be pursued in relation to the circumstances surrounding the granting and issuance of permits for the construction, renovation and operation of Blue Diamond Hotel Group's Roy...

The police are probing five more allegations of sexual assault against children among them three boys who have reportedly been molested and buggered by a 38-year-old man.The oldest of the boys is 12 years old, while the youngest is nin...

THROUGHOUT the novel coronavirus pandemic there has been several factors affecting the processing of immigrant visas causing extended delays for many cases.It is, however, important that applicants continue to maintain contact with the ...

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2008: Scientists at a US Government weapons laboratory announce they have built the world's fastest computer, capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second. It will be used to help maintain the US nuclear w...

Dear Mr Brown:You keep recommending college-based programmes and graduate certificate programmes instead of a master's programme. I would like for you to explain the benefits of a college programme. I would think that university would b...

SANDALS Foundation, in collaboration with the Flankers Primary and Junior High School, last week distributed the second tranche of more than 50 care packages to families of students of the learning institution as well as other members o...

CONSUMERS are being encouraged to examine fruits and vegetables before purchase to ensure that there is no visible indication of spoilage or contamination.Speaking in a recent Get the Facts interview on the JIS television programme, Jam...

DIRECTOR of Family Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Dr Melody Ennis is reminding Jamaicans that the COVID-19 vaccine does not provide protection against other health conditions.In an interview with JIS News, Dr Enn...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has called on the international community to assist the region in bridging the gaps within the sustainable development goals (SDGs), as small developing nations recover from the pandemic.Speaking at the vir...

TEXAS, United States (AP) - Six years had passed since Glenda Valdez kissed her toddler goodbye and left for the United States - six years since she held Emely in her arms.But here she was, at Texas's Austin-Bergstrom International Airp...

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) - Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque says Caribbean countries must be "concerned about the soundings" being made by the Group of Seven (G7) nations that last week announced a landmark ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Criminal gangs divulged plans for moving drug shipments and carrying out killings on a secure messaging system secretly run by the FBI, law enforcement agencies said yesterday, as they unveiled a global sti...

THE management of Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine is denying a report that the death of a baby there last Wednesday was a result of clinical procedures not being followed.In a statement released yesterday by the South East Regiona...

FRIENDS of Ava Thelwell, the 49-year-old woman who is suspected of committing suicide by driving her motor vehicle into the Rio Cobre in St Catherine last week, have expressed sadness at her passing.At the same time, people who did not ...

A St Andrew-based justice of the peace (JP) is now the subject of an investigation by the police after it was discovered that she has had a minor working in a bar she operates.The girl, who is now 17 years old, has claimed that she had ...

THE Jamaica Police Federation, which last month rejected the Government's 2.5 per cent salary increase offer, will be heading to the bargaining table to get the best offer for rank-and-file members of the constabulary and is adamant tha...

DIRECTOR of Tourism Donovan White has downplayed the significance of the recent resignation of two senior Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) managers.Eyebrows were raised yesterday when it was confirmed that JTB veteran Errol Jones was leaving...

THE Clarendon police on Sunday arrested and charged 24 people for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA). They were stopped during an operation in the vicinity of the Mineral Heights roundabout after the 2:00 pm curfew began....

Just over two weeks after Highway 2000 crash victim Cornelia Montague-Clarke was laid to rest, her family is reeling from another road mishap that has claimed the life of her brother-in-law and left her sister, Susan Smart, unconscious...

THE Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has called for cybercrime cases in the High Court to be tried without a jury, despite noting concerns among the legal fraternity about the increasing number of matters that are be...

Today is the 159th day of 2021. There are 206 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT632 AD: The prophet Muhammad dies in Medina. He leaves no arrangement for his succession, creating a rift in Islam lasting to this day. OTHER EVENTS17...

A plea for Jamaicans to use their cellphones to help people as a first response to disaster instead of making social media posts has come from 17-year-old Kyla Gaynor, the 2021 Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (O...

JAMAICA'S legendary sportsman, Lindy Delapenha will posthumously receive an English Premier League championship medal, for helping Portsmouth retain the title in 1950, at a time when he was the first black foreigner to play professional...

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) yesterday closed its St Andrew Revenue Service Centre on Constant Spring Road after an early morning fire damaged a section of the building.The closure, TAJ said, will remain in effect "until further no...

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) - Outgoing Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque is suggesting that "another mechanism" be utilised in getting member countries to greater strengthen their existing cooperation and collabo...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne says the novel coronavirus pandemic has provided Caribbean governments with the opportunity to implement tax cuts for airline tickets across the region."Now is ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - Government health officials yesterday approved the first new drug for Alzheimer's disease in nearly 20 years, disregarding warnings from independent advisers that the much-debated treatment hasn't be...

PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) - Spain jump-started its summer tourism season on yesterday by welcoming vaccinated visitors from most countries as well as European tourists who can prove they are not infected with coronavirus. It also r...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - A unanimous Supreme Court ruled yesterday that thousands of people living in the US for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents.Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the co...