ALBERTA, Canada - Mount Olivet Bible Institute and Seminary (MOBIS) in Ontario was yesterday mum on whether former Pathways International leader Kevin Ontoniel Smith received a Doctor of Ministry degree from that institution ."Our offic...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday put parents and school administrators on notice that face-to-face learning will resume for 376 of the island's 759 primary schools on November 8.This will see the return of 45,390 students to clas...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Jamaica Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James says the Ministry of National Security needs to make arrangements allowing toll road access to members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force in the pursuit of t...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Health officials here have expressed satisfaction following a house-to-house COVID-19 vaccination drive that targeted shut-ins, the disabled and the elderly in Cross Keys, Newport and Mandeville on Sunday and Mo...

Fully vaccinated Ja maicans travelling to the United States as of November 8, 2021 should face no challenges entering that country with the paper-based COVID-19 vaccination certificate currently issued here.Minister of Health and Welln...

The newest entrant to the local delivery market, Hugo, has been acquired by Delivery Hero, the world's leading local delivery platform. The agreement will see Delivery Hero acquiring the multi-category marketplace's core food delivery ...

Kiwanis Club of North St Andrew had another staging of its annual 'One Day Project' last Saturday, at Clan Carthy Primary School. The club joined Clan Carthy Builders Club members, The UWI's Circle K International Club, and representat...

We are heading towards the end of another successful staging of Design Week JA. On Monday, October 25, our stop took us to Evergrow Garden Center on South Avenue. Communications Consultant Ann Jeffrey showed viewers how to incorporate g...

There were not many things worth confronting the bedlam caused by traffic in the corporate area last Saturday. Well, except for popping into H&L Rapid True Value. The retailer's Style Up Yuh Space event was a must-stop for Design We...

Q. I am a US citizen living in Jamaica. My passport has recently expired. What can I do? A. This is a great question. First know that it is currently possible to return to the United States on a recently expired passport. Until December...

Dear Mr Brown,I heard that the Canadian Government is going to continue giving priority to people already in Canada, even though things should be getting back to normal with the vaccination drive.TSDear TS,The Canadian Government recent...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) - Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same. Convicted of assaulting...

WASHINGTON, USA (AP) - The United States moved a step closer to expanding COVID-19 vaccinations for millions more children as a panel of Government advisers yesterday endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer shots for 5- to 11-year-olds.A Food...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) - Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley has called on Caribbean countries to be prepared for the possibility of a climate change event that could cause mass migration and displacement in the Caribbean."2017 ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) - The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) yesterday warned Caribbean countries to be prepared for high flooding and landslides until January next year.In its latest Caribbean Climate Outl...

The attorney for Andre "Blackman" Bryan, the accused leader of the feared Klansman gang, yesterday painted the Crown's key witness as a lying desperado who turned prosecution witness to escape facing the music for his own role in the St...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - As lawmen yesterday defended the choice of route taken to transport Kevin Smith, leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, to Kingston to face charges of murder and illegal possession of fi...

The popular site just above the town clock in Old Harbour, St Catherine, known to many as the Old Harbour Market, is getting a much-needed facelift.According to Councillor Steve Graham (Jamaica Labour Party, Old Harbour Central Division...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The police have charged a member of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James with murder.He has been identified as 37-year-old André Ruddock.Ruddock was charged yesterday afternoon at th...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - School leaders in Manchester and St Elizabeth are preparing for the possibility that the Government will approve the resumption of face-to-face classes soon.This follows last week's submission from the Ministry ...

In the latest bizarre twist to a saga that began two Sundays ago with what is being called a human sacrifice ritual, Kevin Smith, leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, yesterday died in a three-vehicle crash. ...

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed yesterday forming a high-powered partnership agreeing to establish the Gordon "Butch" Stewart International School of Hospitality and Tourism that will train the next generation of Caribbea...

CHIEF Justice Bryan Sykes, the trial judge in the case involving 33 people accused of being members of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, has ordered a full medical report into the condition of the Crown's main witness on whose accou...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Reactions from former members of the Kevin Smith-led Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries yesterday ranged from joy, disbelief that he had died, to concern that he had not had a chance to repent ...

There was little sympathy for Kevin Smith, the so-called cult leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, in Linstead, St Catherine, where he died after an unmarked police car in which he was being taken from Monteg...

Approximately 200 female nurses from the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) will receive PINK gift packages - as part of a breast cancer initiative - in recognition of the work they do to care for patients and to remind them ...

Today is the 299th day of 2021. There are 66 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1960: Gordon House becomes the offical meeting place of the Jamaican Government, replacing Headquarters House. OTHER EVENTS1795: The first jackasses ar...

Leader of Government Business in the Senate Kamina Johnson Smith has admitted that the Administration did not give priority treatment to people with disabilities in the early stages of the delivery of COVID-19 vaccinations.But, accordin...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - October 4 was supposed to be a regular day for 22-year-old Daniel Wright and his friend, 26-year-old Oshane Mowatt. However, that night, the motorcycle they were driving collided with a car in Paradise, We...

The fervent prayers and nervousness of the diminutive mother of Nekia Thompson were palpable last Thursday as she paced the floor outside courtroom number four of the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston."Jesus, wi beg yuh have mercy, ple...

Senior lay magistrate of St Andrew Lorraine Ross Clunie (left) talks with Constable Monique Anderson as she receives her COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Kathy-Ann Wilson Bryan at a 'Vax Day' held by the justices of the peace at Half-Way-Tre...

Family members of a man whose head was delivered to his house on Sherlock Crescent in Duhaney Park on Saturday are refusing to comment on what is believed to be a deadly warning from people in the criminal underworld.The man, who Jamai...

The Hunt's Bay Police have named two men as wanted in connection with the murder of 5-year-old Denique Salmon on Riverside Drive, New Haven, in Kingston 20 on Thursday, October 7. One of the men has been identified by the police as 30-...

Digicel Group Holdings Limited (DGHL) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell Digicel Pacific Limited (DPL), its wholly owned subsidiary, to a subsidiary of the Australian telecommunications company Telstra Corporat...

Sandals Resorts International (SRI) has embarked on a multimillion-dollar renovation of its Sandals Royal Bahamian resort and offshore Island in Nassau that the company says will represent its profile for the future.Set to reopen and we...

The Cabinet could decide today on a timetable for the resumption of face-to-face classes in public schools.The Ministry of Education last week submitted a plan for the consideration of the Cabinet for the return to face-to-face classes...

The Yamaye Council of Indigenous Leaders (YCOIL) has rejected the cult practice at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Paradise, St James, which resulted in the death of three people just over one week ago.The throa...

A Jamaican homeowner has filed a $3-million lawsuit against the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) for unpaid rent on a furnished house she had leased the State to house Cuban doctors and nurses brought to Jamaica to help with...

Jennifer Brown could barely find the words to express her jubilation after emerging as the winner of this year's Supreme Ventures Foundation 'Supreme Heroes' programme."I am elated," the 53-year-old told the Jamaica Observer at the clo...

Local farmers and farming interests are encouraged to explore compost production for personal use and income generation while reducing dependence on inorganic fertilisers, assisting in waste reduction and protecting the marine environme...

Jenise Reece could only manage to write a sentence, while all her peers would have completed a paragraph during some assignments at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona.She would have to request extra time to finish her examina...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The abandoned courthouse in this resort town is being restored, and will be transformed into an art gallery and coffee shop.Work started at the location last week and has already been cleared of shrubs with several p...

After a rigorous selection process involving scores of candidates, ground was broken yesterday at 13 Ashley Road in south-west St Andrew for the construction of a dream house by Christmas for Tashana Mallett and her family.Mallett, her ...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - The funeral for former police commissioner and custos of Portland Roy Thompson has been set for October 27 at Saxthorpe Methodist Church in St Andrew.This is to be followed by his burial at Kensington in Portlan...

MIAMI (AP) - Florida's top health official was asked to leave a meeting after refusing to wear a mask at the office of a state senator who told him she had a serious medical condition. Florida Senate leader Wilton Simpson, a Republican,...

With less than a third of the population of Westmoreland immunised against COVID-19, the JN Foundation will roll out its immunisation drive, in partnership with the American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ), in Petersfield in the parish this w...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's capital has been brought to the brink of exhaustion by fuel shortages, after staggering along despite an earthquake, the assassination of the president, gang violence and mass kidnappings.More than t...

Today is the 298th day of 2021. There are 67 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1983: US Marines and Rangers, assisted by soldiers from six Caribbean nations, invade Grenada at the order of US President Ronald Reagan, who says the a...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - The Government of Barbados is set to receive another shipment of Pfizer vaccines from the United States.Speaking during a recent press conference, Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who pleaded with Barbadians to g...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A powerful storm roared ashore yesterday in northern California, flooding highways, toppling trees and causing mud flows in areas burned bare by recent fires, as forecasters predict record-breaking rainfall.Drenchin...