Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang yesterday announced plans to realign members of the elite Protective Services Division to front-line crime-fighting.In a statement to the House of Representatives Dr Chang said the repositio...

Three of the island's leading private sector groups - the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), and the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) - have issued a call on their col...

Jamaica Union of Tertiary Students President Christina Williams is calling for a revision of the curricula used for online learning as tertiary students are falling through the cracks as much as their secondary and primary counterparts....

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - With reports that missing St Ann teacher Ruchelle Williams was yesterday seen entering a truck headed to Moneague, the police and her colleagues fanned out across the parish hoping to find her and take her home. But ...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Police here up to late yesterday were yet to establish a motive for Tuesday's abduction and wounding of a primary school teacher who remains hospitalised.Police said the woman's ordeal started sometime Tuesd...

D unstan Bryan yesterday defended the health and wellness ministry's decision to give doses of the Pfizer vaccine to adults, despite criticism that it may have negatively impacted the State's intention to prioritise the vaccination of ...

LINTON PARK, St Ann - Thirteen years of marriage ended in distress for TraceyAnn Harris on Tuesday. That was the day her husband Richard died. He had, as usual, responded to a neighbour's appeal for help, leaving his family at home to g...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) on Tuesday told Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) that it has revised upwards its growth outlook for the rest of fiscal 2021/22, from the 4-8 per cent suggest...

LUCEA, Hanover - Western Parks and Markets (WPM) is poised to continue its tree-planting drive in Westmoreland this week when 16 saplings will be added to the landscape. Next up will be Trelawny where another 25 saplings will be planted...

Lifespan Spring Company continued its support of the Hope Zoo last Saturday when it hosted "Lifespan Day at the Zoo"The event was aimed at bringing awareness to the crisis the zoo has been facing while providing entertainment for select...

Today is the 280th day of 2021. There are 85 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1993: African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela and South African President F W de Klerk are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their effo...

LLUIDAS VALE, St Catherine - Malik Hamilton is packing away his army fatigues and taking up music for good.With head held high, he's leaving the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) on October 16 after serving his country for six years.The 25-ye...

The United States Embassy in Kingston - through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - yesterday announced an additional J$45 million (US$300,000) to support Jamaica's uptake to COVID-19 vaccines and reduce tr...

The phrase "overcoming the odds" is an understatement for 24-year-old Joshua Burgess. Though born with congenital rubella syndrome, which has caused him to face a number of health challenges over the years, he continues to scale barrie...

Members of the Housekeeping Department at Sandals Montego Bay showed off another side of their personality recently when they were treated to an afternoon paint & sip session.The team, led by Executive Housekeeper Patricia Grant an...

Several leaders in the education system have indicated their support of the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) comprehensive teachers' mentorship programme. The programme, which is called the Mentors Association of Jamaica Ltd, was designe...

Attorney-at-law Mikael Lorne, who is representing four people arrested following an incident in Riverton Meadows in St Andrew on July 20 in which three alleged gunmen were fatally shot by the police, says lawsuits are being filed agains...

VATICAN CITY, Italy (AP) - Pope Francis expressed "shame" for himself and the Roman Catholic Church yesterday for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France and acknowledged failures in putting the needs of victims firs...

Government Member of Parliament (MP) for St Andrew West Rural Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn has defended the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), dismissing what she says have been attempts to peg it as a bribery pool by politicians to snare vo...

Four years after the Agricultural Loan Societies and Approved Organisations Act was passed, the House of Representatives yesterday gave the nod to regulations that will make the Act operational.The Act is aimed at streamlining the proce...

 Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke on Tuesday that requests for applications for the award of Integrated Resort Development (IRD) orders will be opened on Wednesday, October 6.Under the Casino Gaming Act, the m...

THE Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) has pointed to difficulties with online learning, brought on by the novel coronavirus pandemic, as a reason for the decline it has seen in the number of adolescent mothers enrolled at the ...

BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - A search for two men, which began on Monday night, ended with the discovery of their bodies on a footpath along a lonely stretch of road in Home Castle, Brown's Town, one tied with rope, both shot to death. The tr...

One of Jamaica's leading legal luminaries has appealed to the Government to dismiss a request for vaccinated people to attend upcoming Fifa World Cup qualifiers at the National Stadium, saying that Jamaicans need to understand that the...

Today is the 279th day of 2021. There are 86 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1927: In the United States, the era of talking pictures arrives with the opening of The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, a movie which features both sil...

The anticipation had been mounting since the first announcement of the NOW Nestlé Caribbean Youth Summit weeks ago. Nestlé's self-prescribed mandate - to increase employment and employability and give youth the opportunity and drive ...

For the second consecutive year Citi has been recognised as the Best Corporate/Institutional Digital Bank in Jamaica by Global Finance magazine.The publication was staging its 22nd annual 'World's Best Digital Corporate/Institutional...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The US Government will have to wait until a man, whom they say is a wanted fugitive, pays his $8,000 fine or spend one month in a St Ann jail before they can get him back on American soil to answer charges of murder ...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - The case involving two men accused in the Nattallie Dawkins murder has been rescheduled to Thursday, October 7. The matter, initially set for Monday, September 13, had to be rescheduled after that date was later des...

Shortly before 15-year-old Domonick "Papa Bear" Deerr was stabbed to death in Kingston's gritty Dunkirk community last Friday morning he was watching his favourite television series, Lucifer."I was inside with him on Friday and him go o...

Dear Mr Brown,I want to know your thoughts on studying at a private college in Canada. They promise guaranteed jobs and scholarships and lower tuition. But I heard that private schools are different from public schools. I want to know w...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - There is now a raging debate on how best to deal with homeless people, some of them mentally ill, wandering the streets of Port Antonio. The conversation recently intensified after a mentally ill man threw a sto...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The St James pastor accused of raping a teenage girl is expected to have his first day in the St James Circuit Court today. The case was initially being heard in the St James Parish Court.Thirty-nine-year-old Jas...

Describing the theft of cable wires in sections of her constituency and elsewhere as "a devastating problem", Government Member of Parliament for St Andrew West Rural Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn says harsher penalties might need to be consid...

ONE of Jamaica's top medical professionals, Dr Guyan Arscott is recommending that the Government indicates, in its daily COVID-19 reports, whether the people who died from the novel coronavirus were vaccinated or unvaccinated."Every day...

CHIEF Justice Bryan Sykes yesterday insisted that all main police stations should be outfitted with remote hearing capabilities after he was forced to adjourn the high-profile trial of 33 people accused of being members of the feared Kl...

The Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) will start reviewing the Government's proposed First Supplementary Estimates 2021/22 today at Gordon House.In addition, Minister of National Security Dr Horace ...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - Prime Minister Gaston Browne says Antigua and Barbuda will be entering 2022 with most, if not all of the measures put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, removed, whether or not a signifi...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - Investigators commissioned by the United Nations' top human rights body, including Jamaica's Tracy Robinson, said yesterday that they turned up evidence of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Li...

SANDALS Resorts International (SRI) yesterday kicked off its 40th anniversary celebrations with the announcement that it will establish the Gordon "Butch" Stewart International School of Hospitality and Tourism in honour of its late fou...

The central bank yesterday received more flak for its decision to increase deposit interest rates by one percentage point with the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) describing it as misguided and insisting that the...

Today is the 278th day of 2021. There are 87 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1947: In the first televised White House address, US President Harry S Truman asks Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thur...

THE Government has refused to budge on requests from the Opposition to increase the period for the first review of the anticipated Sexual Harassment Act beyond the current 18 months.Leader of Government Business in the Senate Senator Ka...

CLOSE to 200 residents of Maverley and surrounding communities in St Andrew on Saturday received COVID-19 vaccines in a drive organised by the Rotary Club of Trafalgar, New Heights.The club partnered with the Ministry of Health and Well...

THE Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE) has announced a partnership with Liquefied National Gas (LNG) provider, New Fortress Energy (NFE), that will see three top-performing students from the island's three tertiary institutions whic...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The St Ann police will tomorrow make another push to locate missing teacher Ruchelle Williams.According to Senior Superintendent Dwight Powell, commanding officer for the St Ann Police Division, they have received mu...

PRESIDENT Of the Lupus Foundation of Jamaica, Dr Desiree Tulloch-Reid is calling for increased awareness of the disease, which can lead to early detection and access to treatment.October is being observed as Lupus Awareness Month, under...

"Everybody sad, crying from morning because it is my brother's birthday and he is not even here for us to hug and kiss him - and we can't get no justice for him. Somebody knows something about who hit my brother from his bike and they n...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Jordan's King Abdullah II was meeting with the World Bank president, asking for more financial support for his country's battered economy, just around the time the news broke: A trove of leaked documents revealed the ki...

MENLO PARK, United States (AP) - Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were down across wide swathes of the world yesterday, with Facebook's internal systems used by employees also going down.The company said it was awar...