Today is the 223rd day of 2021. There are 142 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2010: Reasearchers say two ancient animal bones from Ethiopia show signs of butchering by human ancestors, moving back the earliest evidence for the us...

SOME of the young men who wipe windscreens at major intersections in the Corporate Area, in order to put bread on their tables, are happy with offers of skills training and are now looking forward to completing courses and earning certi...

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Michelle Thomas is proposing amendments to the Domestic Violence Act to provide more protection for men who are being abused in their homes. Although Thomas said having the legislation is a guideline for rule of law and ...

THE islands municipal corporations raked in $204.7 billion last year for building/planning applications.The estimated value of applications approved was $145.2 billion, while those that were still being processed at the close of the yea...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Caribbean countries are monitoring the progress of a weather system that was likely to become a tropical storm last night.The Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said that tropical storm warnings hav...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed issued a call yesterday for all eligible civilians to join the armed forces as fighting rages in multiple regions of Africa's second most populous nation."Now is the righ...

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, facing possible impeachment over sexual harassment claims from 11 women and mounting pressure to quit from fellow Democrats, announced his resignation yesterday. The 63-yea...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - Prime Minister Gaston Browne yesterday described Sir Lester Bird as a "great son of the soil" as he led the country in mourning the death of the island's second prime minister.A statement from the Office of ...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness last night expressed concern about recent human rights issues, including the complaint of a teenaged Rastafarian woman who accused the police of forcibly cutting off her locks."I want to place on record an...

With the island about to enter a new 21-day regime of tightened COVID-19 restrictions, given rising infection rates heralding a third wave, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is signalling that Jamaicans might find themselves under at least ...

A shooting incident in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday morning which left three men dead, including a man believed to be the head of the ruthless Darksyde gang which mainly operates in the Kingston Central constituency here, has further i...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - While most poultry farmers were hit by the unforeseen crisis brought on by the novel coronavirus pandemic, Pamela Crammer cannot say the same. The 43-year-old is convinced that God has had a hand in her good fortune....

With heightened fears about the arrival of the deadly Delta variant in the country, Jamaican-born critical care nurse in the United States Sandra Lindsay says it is even more crucial to take the COVID-19 vaccine. "It is extremely impor...

With large numbers of Jamaicans baulking at accepting jabs under the Government's national vaccination programme, the Administration last evening announced its intention to "pivot to a more community-based approach" to have the populac...

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) - The flag of the St Lucia-based Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is being flown at half mast as the region pays tribute to Sir Lester Byrant Bird, who died yesterday after a prolong period of i...

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...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Following the vindication of one of two Rick's Café Negril executives charged in connection with the controversial hosting of Mocha Fest, Queen's Counsel Peter Champagnie is calling for equity in the pros...

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 ...