Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) yesterday opened its pharmacy, indicating that it will help eliminate the fear of discrimination among people living with HIV who try to access medication.Named Life's Work Pharmacy, it is located a...

Efforts by the security forces to sever the head of the venomous Klansman gang have not ended with the arrest and charge of the 33 people accused of being members and who are now on trial in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston, ...

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has served notice that it will appeal yesterday's 12-year sentence handed down to a man who had confessed to two counts of murder.The appeal is being filed for the first time sinc...

DONICE Gardner was thrilled to receive a scholarship from an alumni group at The Mico University College yesterday, as it will help to reduce the financial pressure her grandmother faces to pay her school fees."My grandmother works ever...

THE award of several contracts, amounting to more than US$4 million, has been approved by Cabinet.This was disclosed by Minister of Education, Youth and Information Fayval Williams, who noted that among them is a US$1.69-million contrac...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - With major highways in western Jamaica recording a total of 129 road fatalities since the start of the year, Deidrie Hudson-Sinclair, acting director of the Road Safety Unit (RSU) in the Ministry of Transport, is...

Former Prime Minister PJ Patterson yesterday issued an appeal to the current chief executive Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding to jointly work at having Jamaica sever colonial ties with Britain next year when the island ...

OWNERS and operators of businesses in downtown Kingston are said to be preparing to take the Government to court over the general lack of order that exists in the capital city's bustling commercial hub and which, some insist, is a viola...

Thousands of Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) customers are to start receiving credit to their bills, totalling $221 million in compensation payments for breaches of the guaranteed standards by the light and power company between M...

ADVERTISING executive Arnold Foote died at his Kingston home yesterday, his family announced in a press release.Foote founded Advertising and Marketing (Jamaica) Ltd (AdMark), in 1964, now celebrating its 57th year as a leading agency w...

LATOYA Willis and her father Uston have been left shocked at his recent cancer diagnosis - malignant cells in his pelvic area.They cannot fathom why the diagnosis was not made earlier during his frequent visits, since 2020, to Kingston ...

Today is the 337th day of 2021. There are 28 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1964: Police arrest some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley, one day after the students stormed the administration building and st...

THE November 30, 2021 voters' list, published as scheduled, now has a total of 1,958,708 electors, an increase of 16,592.Electors added to the new list will receive the new voter ID card with a December 31, 2031 expiry date, which will...

THE Government is to provide Jamaicans with the opportunity of owning a stake in the Jamalco alumina refinery in Clarendon upon completion of the incorporation process.This was disclosed by Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr ...

Alliance Finance Limited (AFL) yesterday said, to the best of its knowledge, it is in good standing with all Government of Jamaica financial guidelines and regulations after being charged by the Financial Investigation Division (FID) w...

THE Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) says the retabling by the Government of the Nomination and Selection of Boards Regulations is heartening, and praised the Administration for the expediency attached to the process, with ...

THE Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC), Jamaica Racing Commission (JRC) and the Casino Gaming Commission (CGC) have taken action to strengthen the culture of integrity, combat corruption, and firmly entrench the standards o...

A mediation programme is being piloted in the parish courts as part of efforts to reduce the backlog of cases, while enabling individuals to settle disputes peacefully.The programme is being undertaken by the Ministry of Justice and the...

SAGICOR Life Jamaica has donated a 65-inch television set to the Clarendon Police Division to assist in its crime-fighting and community surveillance efforts.The television set will help with the monitoring of multiple cameras across th...

RENOVATION works are slated to begin shortly at the Jamaica Conference Centre on Port Royal Street in downtown Kingston.This follows Cabinet's approval for the award of a $115.08-million contract to Geecho Consultants and Construction L...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change Pearnel Charles Jr says a Bill to amend the Rent Restriction Act is expected to be tabled in Parliament by the end of this fiscal year.He said the amendments will seek t...

MOUNT PLEASANT, Portland - Less than a year after being launched, a community group intent on having Mount Pleasant recover some of its former glory has made progress. They have cleaned up the community, done minor road repairs, provide...

GLENDEVON, St James - Happy with the work done on the $40-million concrete road officially opened in this community on Wednesday, St James North Western Member of Parliament Dr Horace Chang has suggested that skills learnt by residents ...

DEDICATING his time, manpower, and personal funds over the last three years to ensure the beautification of the Chesterfield Drive entrance to the Corporate Area community of Seaview Gardens has won shoemaker Almando Bailey the gratitud...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday promised everything possible will be done to protect prison officers and their families on the heels of the murders of two warders, including one who was gunned do...

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) - The St Kitts-Nevis Government says it will not follow its other Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries and impose a travel ban on several African countries following the discovery of a new variant of the no...

NEW ENGLAND, United States (AP) - While all eyes are on the new and little-understood Omicron variant, the Delta form of the novel coronavirus isn't finished wreaking havoc in the US, sending record numbers of patients to the hospital i...

PARIS, France (AP) - Greeks who are over age 60 and refuse novel coronavirus vaccinations could be hit with monthly fines of more than one-quarter of their minimum pensions - a get-tough policy that the country's politicians say will co...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - America's defence chief rebuked China yesterday, vowing to confront its potential military threats in Asia and warning that its pursuit of hypersonic weapons intended to evade US missile defences "increases ten...

VALPARAÍSO, Chile (AFP) - Chile's Parliament on Tuesday postponed a vote on a long-awaited bill to legalise same-sex marriage and shelved another to decriminalise abortion.In a frustrating day for activists, the Bill on gay marriage wa...

CALIFORNIA, United States (AP) - New autism numbers released yesterday suggest more US children are being diagnosed with the developmental condition and at younger ages.In an analysis of 2018 data from nearly a dozen states, researchers...

ORVILLE Purnell, 27, who was awaiting extradition to St Lucia to answer a murder charge, escaped yesterday from Central Police Station in Kingston.Purnell, who is from Belgium Road, Buff Bay in Portland, allegedly fled to Jamaica in Oct...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says a policy decision has been taken to return the National Housing Trust (NHT) to its original mandate of building houses for Jamaicans, while pointing out that governments have over the years been guilty...

Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton says there was no ill-intent in the Government's decision to impose travel bans on several African countries.Last Saturday, the Government announced the travel bans and Tufton defen...

Patrick Lalor didn't have to think twice when asked to share his most heart-warming and heartbreaking experiences working with HIV patients.While his Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) colleagues gave separate occurrences, Lalor, the ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) is waiting to collect about $2 billion in unpaid mortgages so it can present roughly 7,000 Jamaicans with titles that are tucked away in its vault. But an even greater challeng...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The police here have advised people to be more vigilant when conducting business and adopt increased security measures as the Christmas season approaches.Superintendent Lloyd Darby, who heads the Manchester poli...

New homeowners Dewight and Dawn-Marie Bailey pose with the keys to their property at Twickenham Glades in St Catherine, yesterday. Prime Minister Andrew Holness handed over the keys to the homeowners at the National Housing Trust scheme...

Today is the 337th day 0f 2021. There are 28 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1961: Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares himself a Marxist-Leninist who will lead Cuba to Communism. OTHER EVENTS1244: Pope Innocent IV arrives at Lyon...

THE health ministry is projecting that Jamaica could see up to 11,000 new infections at the height of a fourth wave of the novel coronavirus, and possibly up to 400 deaths if the spread goes unabated.Portfolio minister Dr Chrstopher Tuf...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding is confident that a Beliefs, Values and Attitudes (BVA) programme introduced in Manchester can help to reduce social delinquency and crime, although a similar initiative launc...

Inside the Kellits Market in Clarendon on a week day is much different from the scene during the weekends when loud calls from sellers seeking buyers and packed stalls of produce, clothes or household items are the standard.Instead, it'...

The Push-Start Foundation, a charity registered in the United States but executes all its work in Jamaica, is collaborating with the Government to renovate and overhaul the Chapelton Community Hospital in Clarendon.Work on the first pha...

 BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus kept the world off balance yesterday as infections from the mutant coronavirus cropped up in more corners of the globe, with one official lamenting that the wait fo...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) - The 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) grouping has congratulated Barbados on the country's 55th anniversary of political independence from Britain and its transition to republican status.Caricom Secret...

THE lead police investigator in the case against 33 individuals accused of crimes committed by the St Catherine-based Klansman gang yesterday gave a glimpse into the events following the 2018 predawn police operation when alleged leader...

JAMAICA AIDS Support for Life (JASL) is urging lawmakers to quickly pass the occupational safety and health law which will force companies to implement policy to guide workplace treatment of people living with HIV/AIDS.According to JASL...

The Government has given the nod for importation and use of COVID-19 self-testing kits approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton mad...

WITH the aim of providing holistic care, Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) has been extending psychological help to the children of its clients as a way of enhancing their mental health.Medical director at JASL, Dr Jennifer Brown Tom...

The lead police investigator in the case against the 33 individuals accused of crimes committed by the St Catherine-based Klansman gang yesterday positively identified another 13 against whom he had laid charges and further revealed tha...