The first of two Crown witnesses in the trial of 33 people accused of being members of the feared Klansman gang yesterday testified that the gang was a well-organised criminal enterprise with members holding titles ranging from don to f...

Head of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Hugh Faulkner is again appealing to Jamaicans for patience as the agency continues its probe into the alleged cutting of the hair of a Rastafarian woman, Nazinga King, at Fo...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - For 50 of his 65 years, Renold Franklin hunted wild hogs, a skill taught to him by his father. With so many years of experience under his belt, it came as something of a shock when he died while on the hunt.Fran...

These days rain is not a force of nature welcomed by residents in a number of Portland communities.That's because, for just about a month now, the showers have triggered landslides on the main road leading to Holywell National Forest Pa...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - Executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) Audley Gordon has declared that foreign investors will not be spared as the agency intensifies its effort to curb the "wanton littering...

Jamaicans who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 are to start receiving digital vaccination cards in another three months, in line with the global move towards secured, machine-readable cards that are universally accepted and not vul...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says Jamaicans have no need to fear receiving expired doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as there are established systems in place for the disposal of the just under 60,00 unadm...

The mangled remains of this truck that overturned on the Chalky Hill road in Steer Town, St Ann, yesterday afternoon being removed. The truck was transporting water for residents of that community who had pooled to have the commmodity d...

Today is the 274th day of 2021. There are 91 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2008: The last czar and his family were victims of political repression, Russia's Supreme Court rules, formally restoring the Romanov name and further...

This boy recovers a few bottles of water after the truck transporting the commodity on behalf of residents of Steer Town, St Ann, overturned on the Chalky Hill road in that community yesterday afternoon. The residents say they have been...

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) - A smuggler who stashed nearly one kilo of gold paste in his rectum to get the precious metal past Indian Customs has been arrested, officials said Wednesday.India is the world's second-largest gold consumer and ...

THE Jamaica National Group is partnering with the Jamaica Cancer Society (JCS) to increase the number of Jamaican women, 40 years and older, who are screened for breast cancer this year.Through its breast cancer awareness campaign, Powe...

YOUTH leaders and delegates of the recent virtual Youth Summit on Crime and Violence have issued a 14-point call to action requesting stronger and expanded youth participation in the implementation of citizen security, safety, and crime...

BROKERAGE firm, Mayberry Investments Limited has announced that it will now act as financial advisor to Jamaica's leading social learning platform, EduFocal, as the online social learning portal seeks to raise capital."Mayberry is alway...

ROYAL Caribbean International, the second largest cruise line in the world, has indicated that it will recommence limited operations to Jamaica in November.The cruise line's senior leadership team made the disclosure during a meeting wi...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) said it has given permission for an additional 16 craft traders to do business at the Ocho Rios cruise ship pier and the promenade leading to the facility. It made the change after...

PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Union of Tertiary Students (JUTS) Christina Williams is calling for more youth engagement in access to information to ensure meaningful contributions are made towards environment and climate change decisions.Wil...

THE Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has raised alarm bells about the recurring pattern of "similar and familiar" complaints of assault and abuse by some law enforcement officers, with particular officers being named i...

THE Government is targeting 28, out of 189 selected communities, for the deployment of Wi-Fi hot spots by the end of October, as it rolls out more public hot spots across the island.All 189 communities are expected to have hot spots ful...

AN appeal by Anglican archbishop of the West Indies The Most Rev Howard Gregory for the Jamaican Government to embrace mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 is being fiercely resisted by other church leaders, one of whom seemed to sugg...

THE death car nicknamed Duppy Truck, owned and used by the St Catherine-based Klansman gang to carry out shootings and murders, was a well-kept and well-guarded secret weapon, the main witness in the trial involving 33 individuals, accu...

JUSTICE Minister Delroy Chuck says witnesses testifying from remote locations - as is now the case in the Supreme Court trial involving 33 individuals accused of being members of the notorious Klansman Gang - should be a reality for eve...

OPPOSITION spokesperson on health, Dr Morais Guy, has criticised the Government's approach to administering the doses of the Pfizer vaccine in recent weeks in an effort to get more Jamaicans inoculated against COVID-19.On August 19, Jam...

MINISTER of Transport and Mining Robert Montague says that the Government has reached an agreement with Concord Resources Holding Limited for the reinstatement of the bauxite production levy on the export of the ore.Montague, in a state...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has announced the Government's decision to initiate a formal review of the process for the selection of candidates for national honours and awards.A broad-based review committee, he said, to be announced sh...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - As relatives and friends of Richard Salm on Tuesday paid tribute to the late hotelier at the St Agnes Anglican Church in Priory, St Ann, his son Andrew spoke of the family's effort to find solace in the little things...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness is calling on policymakers across the world to implement innovative solutions to support sustainable development and eradicate poverty.Holness, who also highlighted the need to bridge financing gaps, made t...

With the emergence of new travel habits amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, Barbadian historian, Sir Hilary Beckles, believes that the Caribbean tourism sector should prepare to "go forward to the past" by promoting the region as a he...

SAVANNAH, Georgia (AP) - Don Varnadoe spent months watching videos about train trips on his office computer in preparation for a special cross-country vacation to celebrate his and Margie Varnadoe's 50th wedding anniversary.He phoned hi...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) - Around 70 Haitian migrants flew home from Mexico yesterday on the first voluntary repatriation flight, authorities said, as part of a deal aimed at easing a growing humanitarian crisis.The Haitians, including...

CALIFORNIA, United States (AP) - YouTube announced a sweeping crackdown of vaccine misinformation yesterday that booted popular anti-vaccine influencers from its site and deleted false claims that have been made about a range of immunis...

OPPOSITION spokesman on health Dr Morais Guy yesterday argued that, if the Government had started its COVID-19 vaccination programme in deep rural communities much sooner, a substantial portion of the remaining 60,000 doses of AstraZene...

Q. What is the operational status of the Consular Section at the US Embassy in Kingston? A: With the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 the Consular Section was compelled to dramatically scale down operations, at times shutting down co...

Chevon McGregor, inventory clerk at Petrojam Limited, relaxes after getting his COVID-19 jab at a vaccination blitz held recently at Petrojam on Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston. Close to 350 persons received the first dose of available ...

The Government is to spend $15.6 billion of its proposed new supplementary expenditure budget on health and social welfare activities in an effort to cushion the heavy blows delivered by the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, Finance ...

As the country nears year two of the novel coronavirus pandemic and over a year of virtual learning, three quarters of the public school population, or more than 600,000 students, are still being hampered by poor quality or no Internet ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - An American man who US Marshals have alleged is a wanted fugitive by the name of Garfield Anthony Michael Sewell yesterday insisted that his name is Eric Lott and he had simply missed his return cruise to the US. Hau...

Angry residents of Delacree Lane in St Andrew claim that the early morning police killing of 21-year-old Javani Rodney yesterday was a case of mistaken identity.Rodney, who is otherwise known as Pimp Pimp, was killed about 5:00 am durin...

EACH year one in three local deaths are tied to cardiovascular or heart disease and, as the country acknowledges World Heart Day today, Jamaicans are being urged to not neglect their heart health.This statistic from Heart Foundation of ...

Today is the 272nd day of 2021. There are 93 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1982: Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with deadly cyanide claim the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. (To date, the case remains unsolve...

Dear Mr Brown,I heard that claiming refugee status is now the best way to get Canadian status. Can you confirm whether this is true?- RWDear RW,Under Canadian immigration law, a conventional refugee is a person who is outside of his or ...

SANTA CRUZ, St ELIZABETH - Garbage pile-up is fast reaching crisis proportions in sections of St Elizabeth, with community bins overflowing and dogs having a field day with loose, scattered refuse.However, regional operations manager fo...

MINISTER without portfolio in the Ministry of National Security, Senator Matthew Samuda says that Jamaica's private security sector is well-positioned to evolve into a regional export industry.According to the minister, the country's re...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus apologised yesterday for what he called a "dark day" for the agency after a damning report on allegations of rape and sexual abuse by workers s...

International courier company UPS and Jamaica's TARA Courier Services have deepened their relationship, with the local firm assuming complete operational responsibility of UPS's small packages in Jamaica."This makes TARA Courier the exc...

KELLITS, Clarendon - Presiding over the burial of an elderly deacon who allegedly took his own life, Pastor Vincent Tulloch struggled to find the right words of comfort for mourners."We would hope that he would pass on in a way that we ...

MARYLAND, United States (AP) - A man who killed five people at a newspaper office in Maryland was sentenced yesterday to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole - with 345 additional years added on to ensure he i...

BERLIN, Germany (AP) - Days before Germany's federal election, Facebook took what it called an unprecedented step - the removal of a series of accounts that worked together to spread COVID-19 misinformation and encourage violent respons...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - The Caribbean Community (Caricom) has warned the 54-member Commonwealth that it risks being divided over the re-election of incumbent Secretary General Patricia Scotland."Our Commonwealth family has, until n...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - In a packed intensive care unit (ICU) for novel coronavirus patients in Romania's capital, Bucharest, 55-year-old Adrian Pica sits on his bed receiving supplementary oxygen to help him breathe. "I didn't want t...