Today is the 222nd day of 2021. There are 143 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1977: US postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested after being accused of being the "Son of Sam" gunman responsible for six random slayings and wound...

OPPOSITION spokesman on health Dr Morais Guy says Jamaica should not consider joining other countries to push for mandatory COVID-19 vaccination.Guy, in an interview with the Jamaica Observer, said the Administration should consider usi...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - A 56-year-old woman pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge of wounding Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves during a protest last Thursday that had been organised by the main Opposition New Democratic Party ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - Trinidad and Tobago registered its first mother-to-child transmission of the novel coronavirus, health authorities have confirmed. However, the woman died from the virus soon after giving birth.Director ...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) - A former Haitian legislator is calling for the appointment of five judges to investigate the assassination of President Jovenel Moise on July 7, even as the justice authorities are finding it difficult to g...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, August 10, 2021: You are an independent person who needs a lot of freedom in their life. You crave variety, and you love stimulation and change. You are competitive personally and professionally. Financial se...

LUCEA, Hanover - The Hanover police have so far ruled out foul play in the sudden death of the parish's most wanted gunman who reportedly died in his jail cell Saturday night. Bryan Jackson, otherwise called Not Nice, of a Green Island ...

Jamaican restaurateur Richard Thomas admits that his business, like many others in the United States, saw a decline in sales last year at the height of the novel coronaviorus pandemic. However, his quick turn to marketing on digital pla...

TOLL GATE, Clarendon - "Madness" is how National Road Safety Council (NRSC) Chairman Lucien Jones describes the close to 300 road fatalities so far this year. "[August 6] was Independence Day but it was a sad day for many Jamaicans. Two...

An eight-day mini summer camp staged by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Canine Division has won high praise from its teenage participants who tired hard to have it extended.The camp, held at Harman Barracks in Kingston, ended last ...

Marie Matthews (centre), board member of the Jamaica Customer Service Association, presents Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke with a work of art in appreciation of his presentation to the association's virtual workshop and leadership for...

With the island now in the third wave of the novel coronavirus infections the health and wellness ministry yesterday revealed that all major public hospitals are overcapacity with COVID-19 patients.At the same time, local oxygen supplie...

Paying homage to the Jamaican proverb 'encouragement sweetens labour' Olympic 110-metre hurdles champion Hansle Parchment says the luxury of his welcome home package provided by Sandals Resorts International will definitely motivate him...

Jamaican athletes have won 87 medals from all 16 Olympics Games in the modern era, starting in 1948 when post-war London hosted the event, with all but one of those - David Weller's cycling bronze at the 1980 games in Moscow - being won...

The Trelawny Police Division staged a peace walk through the community of Wakefield on Independence Day, calling for an end to crime and violence in the area.Commanding officer of the Trelawny Police Division, Superintendent Carlos Russ...

Today is the 221st day of 2021. There are 144 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1936: In a blow to Adolf Hitler's plan to have the Berlin Olympics prove Aryan superiority, black US athlete Jesse Owens becomes the first Olympian to w...

ALMOST 100 Olympians from the Caribbean islands where Sandals Resorts International operates have been gifted complimentary vacation stays by the company's Executive Chairman Adam Stewart in recognition of their valiant efforts at the 2...

The heartless murder of an eight-year-old boy by gunmen yesterday morning in Content, Clarendon, has shocked and traumatised the community, Councillor Uphel Purcell (People's National Party, York Town Division) has said.At the same time...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - An upcoming UN report on climate change gives the international community its clearest ever warning about the dangers of accelerating climate change, Britain's COP26 President Alok Sharma said yesterday.Th...

IDLIB, Syria (AFP) - Hurling a javelin, leaping over hurdles and sprinting beyond rows of tents to win gold, displaced children in the north-west of war-torn Syria staged their very own Olympics.As the Tokyo Olympics wrapped up at the w...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - With the United States recording its highest daily COVID caseload in six months, a top public health official warned yesterday that the country is "failing"."We should not really have ever got to th...

COACALCO, Mexico (AFP) - When Diego started going out again to meet friends he never expected to be among a growing number of young Mexicans hospitalised by a highly contagious COVID-19 variant driving another wave of infections."I let ...

BEIJING, China (AFP) - Authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan yesterday said they had completed citywide testing of more than 11 million people for COVID-19 after a resurgence of cases more than a year after the novel coronavi...

PARIS, France (AFP) - Passes and vaccine passports are increasingly being used across the world to limit entry to public places to those who have been vaccinated, recovered from COVID-19 or tested negative.Here's an overview:European pi...

Professor Donald Jasper Harris yesterday said he was "honoured and humbled" by his country's decision to confer on him the Order of Merit (OM), Jamaica's third-highest national honour and expressed appreciation for the recognition of hi...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Fed up with the recurring shortage of cement from the island's major supplier, Caribbean Cement Company Limited (CCCL), a number of stakeholders in the construction industry in western Jamaica have intensified th...

AFTER 55 years in public service and trade unionism, former speaker of the House of Representatives Pearnel Charles Sr is to be invested with Jamaica's fourth-highest national award - the Order of Jamaica (OJ) - in the latest National H...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Five people, three of them teenagers, died in two motor vehicle crashes in Manchester and St Elizabeth on Independence Day.The Manchester crash occurred on the Downs main road, killing three people.They are 36-y...

MIDDLE QUARTERS, St Elizabeth - As is the case with many community groups, the 16-year-old Middle Quarters Community Development Committee (CDC) has had its ups and downs."There have been times when we have gone almost dormant for one r...

The Japanese volunteer who helped Jamaican hurdler Hansle Parchment get to the Olympics Stadium in Tokyo last Tuesday for his semi-final race, after he ended up at another venue in error, believes she didn't do anything special, even a...

A senior academic at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, says the recent allegation of a police woman trimming the locks of a Rastafarian woman in custody reinforces Afropessimism, repression, and the deliberate abuse of Rast...

At nights, four children - ages two, three, seven, and 12 - are sent to stay with relatives and sometimes neighbours while their parents, Marlon Buckley and his sister Nicole Panton, make do with donated mattresses on the floor in a roo...

What really happened at Four Paths 'barber shop'?If we are to follow initial reports, a terrible crime was committed at the Four Paths Police Station in Clarendon recently.It involved the trimming - by force we were told initially, but ...

On Monday, July 26, 2021, Dominic Miller went to bed an anxious student. He woke up the following morning, travelled to The University of the West Indies, Mona campus where he picked up his exam results at the Faculty of Medical Science...

HEAD of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Dr Joy St John says breastfeeding can help to prevent childhood obesity and maternal obesity, which are important risk factors for Type 2 diabetes."If we are to reduce the prevalence ...

INDIVIDUALS tend to get sores on their inner lip quite frequently without knowing the cause or how it can be treated. These sores are called aphthous ulcer or canker sores.Canker soresAphthous ulcer is defined as a small lesion that res...

"You are in my prayers." Sounds familiar? It should. You've probably heard or said those words at one point or another.When I was a child, my father developed a huge lump at the back of his neck. He was examined on more than one occasio...

MASSACHUSETTS, United States - As a child, I had a great deal of anxiety. If you've ever seen me speak in public, that might surprise you. But anxiety among children is extremely common and affects almost all children to varying degrees...

Dr Nagendra Babu Chandolu and his wife, Dr Alekya Daram, say they remain committed to philanthropic work despite the financial crunch caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has reduced the number of Jamaicans who come to them f...

THERE'S a common misconception that social media is a young person's game. However, more seniors are turning to social media platforms for their entertainment, news updates and to keep in touch with friends and family. Studies have show...

PENSION expert Sharon Smith says as difficult a time some people may be experiencing now due to the economic effects of COVID-19, pension contributors should be seeking to preserve their savings. Smith, who is the head of premium financ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) - The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States crossed 100,000 new confirmed daily infections yesterday, a milestone last exceeded during the winter surge and driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant ...

NASSAU, The Bahamas (CMC) - The local Rastafarian community has defended the use of natural remedies in the fight against COVID-19 by stating that none of its members have contracted the virus.The claim was recently made by High Priest ...

PARIS, France (AFP) - Almost a quarter of a million people took to the streets across France yesterday for the biggest protests yet against the novel coronavirus health pass needed to enter a café or travel on an inter-city train, tw...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) - Haiti's justice system is still struggling to find a judge willing to investigate the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse a full month after he died, as magistrates fear for their lives if they take o...

DEMENTIA is a syndrome, usually of a chronic or progressive nature, caused by a variety of brain illnesses that affect memory, thinking, behaviour and ability to perform everyday activities.The number of people living with dementia worl...

HOUSEHOLD air pollution is one of the leading causes of disease and premature death in the developing world.Exposure to smoke from cooking fires causes 3.8 million premature deaths each year, mostly in low-and middle-income countries. B...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021: You have focus. You are determined, hard-working and creative. Adventure appeals to you, and yet you value security. You're not afraid to commit. You are an excellent friend to others, always loy...

The cuckold lives in bliss,Who, certain of his fate,Loves not his wronger,But O, what damned minutes tells his o'erWho dotes, yet doubts, suspects,Yet strongly loves.- ShakespeareA cuckold is a man who's being cheated on, getting bun as...