Manufacturing and shipping conglomerate Jamaica Producers Group recently hosted Denise Patricia Byrne Kingsmill, styled Baroness Kingsmill, who was on an unofficial visit to the island.The baroness is a board member of European fashion...

SCHOOLS operated by the Jamaica Association for the Deaf (JAD) recently received a well-needed technological support boost from Proven Investments Limited which handed over 15 tablets and three laptop computers to help deaf and hard-of-...

Today is the 188th day of 2021. There are 177 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2000: Eager children around the globe grab volumes of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the boy wizard's fourth magical adventure - a massive hit ev...

THE new civil registration number (CRN) developed by the Registrar General's Department (RGD) is expected to improve planning for social security and welfare programmes.The CRN is a code now applied to the RGD's Electronic Birth databas...

HALSE HALL, Clarendon - Jamalco has donated 62 full-sized mattresses to residents in several communities of Clarendon and Manchester. The mattresses were handed over along with bedding and supplies to improve the lives of the elderly an...

GENDER Minister Olivia "Babsy" Grange has vowed to revamp and roll out a programme focused on building the values and attitudes of boys and young men this summer.Speaking with the Jamaica Observer at the opening of a new boardroom named...

QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) - An Ecuadorian businessman has been jailed over a scam to sell body bags to a hospital for more than 10 times their cost price amid a spike in novel coronavirus cases, the prosecution service said yesterday.Daniel ...

Dear Mr Brown,I am interested in migrating to Canada under the Express Entry programme. I did an online evaluation and I was told that I am eligible, so I would like to know the next step to take. How much money do I need to show for th...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) - Haiti's newly appointed premier told AFP yesterday his top priority is creating a "conducive environment" for elections in the crisis-wracked Caribbean country.Ariel Henry, a neurosurgeon who studied in Fra...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - Arthritis drugs tocilizumab and sarilumab reduce the risk of death and the need for ventilators among hospitalised COVID-19 patients, according to an analysis of nearly 11,000 patients published yes...

FLORIDA, United States (AP) - The bodies of two young sisters pulled from the rubble of a Florida condo building - so tiny that the four and 10 year-olds were placed in the same casket - were buried alongside their parents yesterday, th...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - As the end to America's "forever war" rapidly approaches, the US Embassy and other diplomatic missions in Kabul are watching a worsening security situation and looking at how to respond. In the countryside, dis...

FLORIDA, United States (AP) - Tropical Storm Elsa gathered strength and was likely to become a hurricane before coming ashore in Florida, weather forecasters said yesterday. The storm's rains lashed the Caribbean and the Florida Keys an...

SENIOR Pastor of the Waltham Park New Testament Church of God Rev Dr Stevenson Samuels, who noted that Jamaican policemen and women are perhaps more stressed than their colleagues globally, yesterday urged them not to bottle their emoti...

A group of young men from Eleven Miles in Bull Bay, St Andrew, instead of waiting on the National Works Agency (NWA) to remove debris from the road following rains associated with Tropical Storm Elsa, yesterday took on the job themselve...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - With Jamaica being spared the full wrath of Tropical Storm Elsa, albeit damage was evident to roads in sections of Kingston and St Andrew, St Catherine and Clarendon, the parish of Manchester had no such reports...

RESIDENTS of Gordon Town are expressing relief after Tropical Strom Elsa passed close to Jamaica on Sunday with little to no damage to the St Andrew community. Though the storm dumped heavy rain on sections of the island on Sunday, Gord...

AARON Morgan, who was desperate to save his own life early yesterday morning, called the police to come to his rescue after allegedly being attacked with a knife in a domestic dispute, but a twist of events would lead to 35-year-old Tas...

TODAY marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of the late Gordon "Butch" Stewart whose life story is a complex tale of one man's extraordinary journeys and events that have impacted massive numbers of people and brought the world to the...

Executive Chairman of Sandals Resorts International Adam Stewart (second left) recently met with executives of American Airlines to discuss tourism-related matters.The Sandals boss was accompanied by Gary Sadler (left), executive vice-p...

Today is the day 187th day of 2021. There are 178 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2005: New York Times reporter Judith Miller is jailed for refusing to divulge a confidential source to a grand jury investigating the George W Bush...

SAVANNA-LA- MAR, Westmoreland - Excited teachers, nervous parents and strict COVID-19 prevention protocols will be the order of the day when a number of schools in the western end of the island begin face-to-face summer school classes t...

FACILITATING a quick response to those most in need, JP Tropical Foods Limited has provided the medical and support staff at the Bustamante Hospital for Children with a nutritional boost through its donation of more than 1,300 kilograms...

WASHINGTON,United States (CMC) - The World Bank says the 2020 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks' Climate Finance indicates that climate finance to low- and middle-income economies, such as those in the Caribbean, rose to US...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Emergency shelters were empty here for much of Sunday while several homeless people milled about the forlorn streets during persistent rainfall associated with Tropical Storm Elsa.A handful of them flatly told the Ja...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The popular Little Dunn's River beach corridor in this resort town is coming back to life and vendors are thrilled. They anticipate that things will only get better now that tourists, whose purchases they depend on, ...

ATAMI, Japan (AFP) - Rescuers were holding out hope of finding at least 64 people buried under the mud and wreckage of a Japanese holiday town that was hit by a devastating landslide, with teams set to resume the desperate search for su...

LONDON (AP) - Britain plans to scrap laws requiring face masks and social distancing later this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed yesterday, even as he acknowledged that lifting the restrictions will drive surging coronavirus...

Although Tropical Storm Elsa brought no more than showers to Jamaica, the residents of Bamboo River in St Thomas are anxious and fearful of what the rest of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season holds for their flood-prone community.Yester...

RESIDENTS in sections of Old Harbour, St Catherine, had anxious moments yesterday as the rain associated with Tropical Storm Elsa left some areas flooded."The water came inside the house and damaged a lot of personal belongings," Dwayne...

MBJ Airports Limited, operators of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, yesterday reported that two flights were cancelled and at least eight delayed due to Tropical Storm Elsa. According to MBJ's manager, commer...

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has cautioned the Government against major legislative changes that could create uncertainty and adverse consequences in the power generation market. The light and power company told a joint sel...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Tourism stakeholders are upbeat this morning following yesterday afternoon's arrival of Air Canada's Dreamliner flight from Toronto, Canada, at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James.Shortly afte...

Jamaica was yesterday spared the worst effects of Tropical Storm Elsa with only a few parishes experiencing hours of heavy rains, something of a disappointment for some Jamaicans, and a relief for others, who had braced for severe weat...

As Jamaica's tourism sector continues to rebound, Montego Bay will this evening welcome the first of once weekly flights from one of the world's richest countries, Switzerland. The flights are operated by Edelweiss Air, a Swiss leisure...

The United States (US) State Department has expressed concern that some members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force could be involved in human trafficking.In its 2021 Trafficking in Person Report, released late last week, the State Depar...

HAVING suffered sexual abuse Crystal Witter is determined to help other Jamaican females who are victims of the crime of human trafficking.Witter, 24, who hails from Manchester, recently launched a non-profit organisation which she has ...

Jamaica will today welcome the most senior United Kingdom (UK) Cabinet member since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic some 15 months ago. Alok Sharma, president for COP26 - the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, i...

Caribbean Community (Caricom) Heads of Government will have the novel coronavirus pandemic and the region's response high on the agenda for their 42nd Regular Meeting to be held online today and tomorrow,The impact of recent natural dis...

PETERSFIELD, Westmoreland - The People's National Party (PNP)-controlled Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) has placed a stop order on the construction of a house for which PNP President Mark Golding carried out a much-publicised ...

Photo 1: A flooded section of New Haven in the Corporate Area (Photo: Joseph Wellington)Photo 2: A vendor in deserted downtown Kingston secures her goods yesterday, during a break in the heavy rianfall from Tropical Stom Elsa. (Photo: J...

HAVANA (AP) - Cuba evacuated 180,000 people amid fears yesterday that Tropical Storm Elsa could unleash heavy flooding after battering several Caribbean islands, killing at least three people.The Cuban Government had opened shelters and...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) - The role played by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), in shaping and sustaining the region has been lauded with the unveiling of six wax figures of eminent Caribbean people last Saturday, during a special c...

THOUSANDS of Jamaican students will today begin summer school under the Ministry of Education's Recover Smarter - National School Learning and Intervention Plan (NSLIP).According to acting chief education officer in the Ministry of Educ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Winston "Tammo" Thompson spent most of his years working as a bellman at a hotel in Ocho Rios, St Ann. He did his job well, but his heart was elsewhere. He dreamed of being a chef. "I can remember being at work in th...

Residents of the eastern section of Portland are eyeing with delight the planned development of an integrated business complex at the Boundbrook Industrial Estate.The planned development will involve the build-out of 100,000 square metr...

In yesterday's story headlined 'Bishop: I am no Obeah man' we incorrectly stated that Raleigh Christie, a bishop in a revival church, is the head of the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica.We regret the error.

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) - Cybersecurity teams worked feverishly yesterday to stem the impact of the single biggest global ransomware attack on record, with some details emerging about how the Russia-linked gang responsible breached t...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson will provide an update today on plans to ease COVID-19 restrictions in England, amid speculation that he will scrap rules that require people to wear masks in many public settin...

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - After nearly six months in office, grappling with a pandemic every step of the way, President Joe Biden was determined to party."This is a holiday weekend," Biden declared last Friday as he parried jour...