WITH the novel coronavirus pandemic likely to be blamed for arresting the dip in poverty that the country had been witnessing up to 2019, Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke says the Government is eager to receive the poverty data for 2020...

JAMAICA'S failure to develop a profitable and sustainable casino industry, 11 years after passing the necessary legislation, is about to be amended to deliver more investments and jobs.Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel...

Although GWest Corporation Limited was able to record a net profit of $22.19 million after a 12 per cent decline in revenue to $113.10 million, the company disposed of $132.29 million in investment properties and failed to materialise ...

CABINET Minister Everald Warmington has taken a swipe at critics of embattled independent Member of Parliament George Wright, who is accused of beating a woman with a stool as well as his hands, following a viral video which could not c...

Today is the 181st day of 2021. There are 184 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1997: The Union Jack is lowered for the last time over Government House in Hong Kong as Britain prepares to hand the colony back to China at midnight a...

WESTMORELAND, Jamaica - Up to primary school, Renae Reid had a hard time reading. Once, a teacher told her she would never amount to anything. Edward Waite, on the other hand, had an easier time. It was clear, from an early age, that he...

MORANT BAY, St Thomas - Nineteen-year-old St Thomas native Nahjae Nunes, whose online youth seminars have changed the lives of hundreds of his peers around the world, is among this year's recipients of the Diana Award. The recognition h...

SENIOR veterinary specialist, Veterinary Services Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr Suzanne McLennon-Miguel says continuous collaboration between ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) is crucial in the developmen...

THE Crime Monitoring Oversight Committee (CMOC) raised concerns yesterday about the prevalence of intimate partner violence across the island and the level of Government intervention needed to help remedy the problem.According to CMOC C...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) - Doctors without Borders (MSF) said Monday it had closed a hospital in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince after it was hit by gunfire at the weekend - a gloomy sign of an escalation of violence in the city.Lucki...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - Giant marionettes, fantastical beasts and circus performers will form the centrepiece of celebrations to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 years on the throne, organisers said yesterday.A platinum jubilee pagea...

Dear Mr Brown,Please explain the reason for Canada still restricting travel when so many other countries are opening up their borders. The pandemic has been so frustrating and the delays and restrictions for Canada just make it worse.- ...

VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) - At least 69 people in Canada's Vancouver area have died in a record-smashing heatwave engulfing the west of the country and the US Pacific Northwest, police said yesterday.Most of the dead in the Vancouver subu...

GOVERNMENT minister and Portland Western Member of Parliament (MP) Daryl Vaz yesterday lashed out at individuals who have been fraudulently using his name to scam unsuspecting people in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme which involved ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - President of the influential Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) Janet Silvera is tipped to return as head of the 88-year-old chamber during the advocacy group's annual general meeting (AGM) at t...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Rolland "Dr Love" Martin feels underappreciated. For more than 40 years, he said, he has maintained a beach in this resort town, and though it is now informally named after him, the local authorities refuse to rec...

Disgruntled farmers in Bernard Lodge, St Catherine, were quick to take the opportunity to appeal directly to Prime Minister Andrew Holness for a review of the amounts they will be paid for compensation and to fast-track the payments to ...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has promised that the six science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) schools his Administration plans to build will be done with information technology at the forefront to ensure that student...

Students at Bethlehem Primary and Infant School in Malvern, St Elizabeth, were all smiles after a recent visit from popular entertainer Anthony Fairclough, otherwise known as Papa Michigan, along with members of the Flow Foundation team...

SENIOR Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Sharon Millwood-Moore says errant parents and guardians should bear the brunt of scrutiny and blame when their offspring are involved in child-on-child sexual offences.Millwood-Moore, who wa...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The St James police yesterday morning discovered in bushes at John's Hall in the parish the headless body of a man whom they theorise was one of the gunmen who ran amok in the community on Sunday, leaving seven p...

HAYES, Clarendon - Determined to strengthen their relationship with residents of this community that was rocked by a fatal car crash and three days of protests against the police, members of police youth clubs (PYC) from across the coun...

STEER TOWN, St Ann - A couple who migrated after completing nursing school together in Jamaica has shown benevolence and patriotism by pumping $2.2 million into primary health care in this parish.Ranny and Janice Watson said their donat...

LOCAL health-care company Novamed has announced an expansion of its portfolio to include a career consultancy arm geared towards providing expert technical and administrative support and guidance to students and professionals in the med...

SATURDAY mornings in Duhaney Park, St Andrew, are now marked by free English and mathematics classes for students who, since the novel coronavirus pandemic, have been facing a learning loss due to the disparities in the education system...

NASSAU, The Bahamas, (CMC) - The main Opposition Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) says if it wins the next general elections it will scrap immediately the travel health visa requirement, even as the Government announced that 300,000 visa...

WITH some Jamaicans expressing that they would be more willing to take COVID-19 vaccines developed by Caribbean neighbour Cuba, director of family health services in the Ministry of Health and lead clinician for the national COVID-19 va...

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1995: A posh five-storey department store in Seoul, South Korea, collapses, killing at least 114 people and injuring 910. OTHER EVENTS1520: Montezuma II, ninth and last emperor of the Aztecs, dies in Tenochtitlan of wo...

LAS VEGAS, United States (AP) - For the first time in the pageant's history, the title of Miss Nevada USA has been won by a transgender woman.Kataluna Enriquez was crowned the winner Sunday at the South Point hotel-casino in Las Vegas.T...

FLORIDA, United States (AP) - Rescuers searching for a fifth day for survivors of a Florida condo building collapse used bucket brigades and heavy machinery yesterday as they worked atop a precarious mound of pulverised concrete, twiste...

DEMAR Hemley says teaching students who were poor at multiplying to solve mathematical problems, but who are now correcting him if he makes a mistake, is an experience that puts a smile on his face. "I would make a mistake, sometimes I ...

The long and deep Haiti-Jamaica connection is continuing with the success of a group, led by Jamaican Ephraim Martin, in getting an iconic street named after Chicago's black founder, the under-recognised Haitian Jean Baptiste Pointe DuS...

WESTMORELAND, Jamaica - Administrators of the Hatfield Wesleyan Holiness Church were happy yesterday as they welcomed members they have not seen face-to-face for far too long. For some, it was the first time in over a year they had gath...

FATHER of murdered Anglican priest Larius Lewis would like the court to turn over his son's killers to him so that he "can get the justice" he really wants, despite the two murderers being sentenced to life in prison.The grieving father...

THE National Council on Education (NCE) says it welcomes the announcement made by Prime Minister Andrew Holness that schools should reopen for face-to-face learning in September of this year. The need for face-to-face learning supports ...

A lack of effective communication, transparency, and understanding of priorities are barriers that affected the collaboration among some tourism stakeholders across the Caribbean region amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. That was one ...

Relatively new player in Jamaica's gaming sector, Izizzi Games has started to set its sights on the rural parishes with a massive roll-out in Portland last Friday.It was a carnival like atmosphere on the streets of Port Antonio when sup...

UNIVERSITY graduate Dushaine Carty, 24, wiped the sweat from his brow as he trudged through his field of sweet potatoes near Linstead St Catherine, yesterday. He walked through a lush row of produce, pausing periodically to tug at the g...

PORTUM, an app developed to identify people who have contracted the novel coronavirus and their contacts, could be Jamaica's saviour as the Government seek, growth levels in commerce and entertainment while managing the economy through ...

NORWOOD, St James - Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says a number of violence producers, including lottery scammers, in Norwood, St James, managed to elude the security forces dragnet by taking flight from the community when the zone ...

The National Baking Company Foundation has again partnered with Food for the Poor to donate 11 houses in support of the virtual 'Race for Hunger' fund-raising efforts.In 2020, the National Baking Company Foundation committed to, and del...

Gaining a foothold in new markets will require a lot more strategic thinking in a global tourism sector reshaped by the novel coronavirus pandemic, says Jamaica's Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett."COVID has upended much of the ambition ...

The pickup truck seen yesterday travelling on Spanish Town Road in St Andrew is not only overloaded, but men riding in the back are too close and not wearing masks, making it an easy case for spreading the novel coronavirus if anyone is...

Today is the 179th day of 2021. There are 186 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2000: Seven months after floating adrift in the Florida straits, six-year-old Elian Gonzalez returns to his native Cuba, bringing to a close a fierce c...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Grenada's Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell is leading an initiative of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) to eliminate roaming charges for Caribbean nationals travelling within the region.Mitchell, accompanied ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (CMC) -The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says the region has all the right conditions to become a renewable energy hub with great potential in green hydrogen."Several countries in Latin ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Barbados says it will from this week, be in a position to screen positive novel coronavirus cases for all variants of the virus as the authorities urged people here to get vaccinated in a bid to prevent the ...

MISSISSIPPI, United States (AP) - Never before seen case files, photographs, and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to the public for the firs...

FLORIDA, United States (AP) - Rescuers digging through the rubble of a Florida beachfront condo sought to reassure families that they were doing as much as possible to find missing loved ones, but the crews said they needed to work care...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - Thrown offstride to reach its COVID-19 vaccination goal, the Biden Administration is sending A-list officials across the country, devising ads for niche markets and enlisting community organisers to...