Today is the 201st day of 2021. There are 164 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1968: The first International Special Olympics Summer Games, organised by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, are held in Chicago. OTHER EVENTS1810: Bogota rises ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - A St James pastor, his wife, and the mother of the teenage girl who accused the man of the cloth of rape will all return to court on July 23.They were remanded when they appeared in court on Monday.The 39-year-ol...

The Jamaica Cancer Society's (JCS) premire fund-raising and awareness event, Relay For Life, is going virtual this year under the theme 'Hope From Yaad'.With the staging of Relay For Life not possible in its traditional format because ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Richard Vernon, councillor for the Montego Bay South Division which experienced flooding recently, is hoping the Government's Lengthman Programme will provide the answer to drainage woes in the area."I am really ...

THE Sandals South Coast Resort recently had the pleasure of hosting the founder and chairperson of 'Pack for a Purpose', an incredible non-profit which has been changing the face of travel across the world.In 2010, Rebecca Rothney start...

BRADES, Montserrat (CMC) - Montserrat is marking the 26th anniversary of the explosion of the Soufrière Hills Volcano with Premier Easton Taylor-Farrell acknowledging that it "has changed our lives forever".After a long period of dorma...

TORONTO, Canada (AP) - Canada announced yesterday it will begin letting fully vaccinated US citizens into Canada on August 9, and those from the rest of the world on September 7.Officials said the 14-day quarantine requirement will be w...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) - Less than 48 hours after the "Core Group" of international diplomats called on interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph to step down and allow for designated Prime Minister Ariel Henry to form a "consensual and...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Police are investigating the deaths of two passengers and injuries to several others in a late-night collision at Little Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara on Sunday.The authorities said the dead and injured...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - US President Joe Biden tempered his assessment that social media giants are "killing people" by hosting misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines on their platforms, saying yesterday that he hoped t...

PARIS, France (AP) - A French Holocaust survivor has denounced anti-vaccination protesters comparing themselves to Jews who were persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II. French officials and anti-racism groups joined the 94-year-...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - A Florida man who breached the US Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag was sentenced yesterday to eight months behind bars, the first resolution for a felony case in the Capitol insurrectio...

LONDON, England (AP) - Corks popped, beats boomed out and giddy revellers rushed onto dancefloors when England's nightclubs reopened after midnight Sunday as the country lifted remaining coronavirus restrictions after more than a year o...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, July 20, 2021: You are warm, charming, generous, idealistic and sometimes shy. However, you are determined and goal-oriented. This year you will undergo a significant change - it will be noticeable. Expect to...

FOR an unbroken decade, the 'Haunted Night Tour' at the storied Rose Hall Great House in St James drew delightful shrieks from visitors and locals alike until the deadly novel coronavirus pandemic crashed the party last year, bringing t...

MINISTER of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says that the Government may have to take legal action to get bauxite/alumina companies to resume paying the bauxite levy, as the COVID-19 crisis subsides."You know the history ...

JAMAICA'S minimum wage is too low to ensure families can live above the poverty level, the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) has found, with a lot more Jamaicans going hungry given the deprivations caused by the novel coronavi...

It's a regular initiative, but a big step for Johnson's Petroleum Company Limited and United Petroleum (Ja) Limited (UNIPET), who engaged a total of 84 employees in a training programme for improving customer service skills. The group ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - "Parliament has taken this offence so seriously that they didn't bother to give it to the parish court judge. They said, 'No, man, it must go straight to the Supreme Court, big court.' So I have to accept the mes...

Jamaican American Alison Smith has smashed a nearly century-old tradition in Florida's Broward Country Bar Association (BCBA), becoming the first black woman to be elected president since its founding in 1925.Smith, an attorney and part...

Haiti, I'm sorry, we misunderstood youOne day we'll turn our headsAnd look inside youHaiti, I'm sorry, Haiti, I'm sorryOne day we'll turn our headsRestore your glory - David Rudder and Charlies RootsThe level four travel advisory issue...

IN a decisive about-turn, Jamaican churches are opening the door to Government intervention in holding their members accountable following a long spate of sex scandals and the brutal rape of minors involving rogue pastors.Some church le...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Detailed plans for the $1-billion Boundbrook Industrial Estate were recently outlined to area residents during a town hall meeting, with the project being touted as nothing short of transformational. "We are loo...

Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum: One of the pre-eminent leaders of our time who took his country from a little backwater oil-producing emirate with rapidly declining reserves to a foremost tourist destination and an extraordinarily high ...

Today is the 200th day in 2021. There are 165 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1980: Summer Olympics in Moscow begin, minus dozens of nations boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.OTHER EV...

UNITED Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Nelson Mandela International Day, which was observed yesterday, is an opportunity to reflect on the life and legacy of a legendary global advocate for dignity, equality, justice and...

When the crowds stormed the Bastille, the French military fortress and prison over two centuries ago, the last thing on their minds were the sick children at the as yet non-existent at the time, Bustamante hospital in Kingston, Jamaica....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, July 19, 2021: Even though you are cautious and guarded, you are proud, persistent and courageous. Many of you have a mysterious allure that is appealing to others. This is a year of building, construction and...

A 22-year-old Jamaican native who has been studying medicine in Camagüey, Cuba for the past three years, has found himself in a frenzy in recent times.It follows a shortage of food and medicine across the Spanish-speaking island, and w...

When it rains, 80-year-old Stanley Morrison has to sit in a chair in his one-room board dwelling with no electricity or water until his bed dries. His roof is made mainly of tarpaulin and is riddled with holes and sunburn.Morrison has ...

"Hypocritical" is how retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams refers to the United States after learning that its State Department underscored a concern that some members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) could be inv...

Outgoing British High Commissioner to Jamaica Asif Ahmad has labelled his failure to help Jamaica significantly reduce its murder figures as one of the most disappointing aspects of his four years in the post.In an exit interview with ...

EIGHTEEN-year-old Lacsena Edwards from Fort George, St Ann, a community which borders Clarendon, had her sights set on becoming a nurse.But the impact of COVID-19 forced her to drop out of school and has left her scrambling to determin...

TWO brothers - a six and a 12-year-old - are left to heal after one of their most fundamental rights as children was grossly violated, leaving their parents devastated. That being their right to protection from abuse as reflected in the...

PEOPLE'S National Party President Mark Golding is keeping quiet, publicly, about the situation that has left the 83-year-old party struggling to fend off further criticism about its quest to achieve unity, following the resignation of i...

DURING the novel coronavirus pandemic, millions of people worldwide lost their jobs and had to quickly find new ways of survival.Locally, from Croft's Hill, Clarendon, two women have been tilling the soil through their farms and produci...

Should racists be given attention?The highly racist society that is England was on colourful display last Sunday in the final of Euro 2020.It is public knowledge that three black members of the England football squad were subjected to r...

THE Kiwanis Club of New Kingston (KCNK), in collaboration with artists from Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA), have completed and unveiled a mural on Mark Lane, downtown Kingston, which is expected to encour...

Richard Buchanan decided that the theft of his pan and tent from his place of business in Hendon, Norwood, in St James will not deter him from earning a living.The three-year pan chicken vendor has risen from the ashes to continue his p...

AFTER the National Works Agency (NWA) closed the dilapidated First Bridge in Pedro, Clarendon, which was on the brink of collapsing, residents took it up on themselves to reopen the bridge despite warnings of danger and incomplete const...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - From age five Dominique Reid wanted to be a dentist.She was so fascinated by the idea that she dressed like one every year for careers' day at school. Now, the 25-year-old has achieved her desire and wants to im...

OVER the past year and a half 'vaccine' has become a buzzword. This is not because the term is new to us, but it has become somewhat of a lifeboat as the world continues to grapple with the novel coronavirus pandemic.At the onset of the...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Born on July 7, 1921 in this south-central parish, Alice Isabella Plummer recently celebrated her 100th birthday with a few family and friends at the United Church Senior Citizen's Home in Mandeville.Plummer, wh...

THERE is a widely held misconception that advanced technology is best suited for the young.However, increasingly, we are seeing where technology is helping to improve the lives of our senior citizens. One of the great perks of the ever-...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth -Educator Kerene Nelson, who was the Lasco Teacher of the Year for 2016/2017, operates on the basis of a simple philosophy. "It is my belief that education is the bridge that gets you on the other side; thus, he...

WELL known educator, author and former British Broadcasting Corporation journalist, Trevor Fitz-Henley is dead.He passed away yesterday, two days after his 77th birthday. Fitz-Henley, who died in hospital, had been battling illness for ...

THE CONVERSATION) - Now that two-thirds of all adults in the United States have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of mid-July 2021, life seems to be returning to some semblance of pre-pandemic times. People are again t...

A new World Health Organization (WHO) report confirms that HIV infection is a significant independent risk factor for both severe/critical COVID-19 presentation at hospital admission and in-hospital mortality.Overall, nearly a quarter (...

TECHNOLOGY is easier, but the risks of mishaps are just as real. That's why data security and web hosting expert Trevor Forrest has joined the drone delivery debate, warning against the possible leak of customers' personal information. ...

SINCE the novel coronavirus pandemic began, researchers, scientists, doctors, and the general population have all sought to figure out this unexpected and unpredictable virus.The huge gaps in explaining the novel coronavirus may have ad...