MANDEVILLE, Manchester - One man died on the Spur Tree Hill main road, while an elderly man was mowed down and seriously injured in Porus in two road crashes yesterday, hours after the Road Safety Unit released data showing that up to y...

Police sources have shared two theories, one of them jealousy, which could have led to the murder of 26-year-old Shantiva Griffiths on Orange Street in downtown Kingston on Monday about 6:30 pm.Griffiths was pregnant at the time she wa...

Responding to the call to equip thousands of students across the island to take advantage of the new multimodal approach to learning, Sandals Foundation and Rainforest Seafoods yesterday provided digital tablets to students at St Mary's...

A detective corporal from the Major Investigations Division of the police force yesterday detailed the grim sight and horrid smell of burnt human flesh that greeted investigators who were called to the scene of a double murder allegedly...

State minister for education, youth and information Robert Morgan (left) presents a tablet to Shanelle Grandson of Lister Mair Gilby High School for the Deaf, May Pen Unit. He was participating in the handover of eight tablets to studen...

Today is the 349th day of 2021. There are 16 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1983: The People's National Party of Jamaica boycotts the country's general election, awarding the ruling Jamaica Labour Party all 60 seats of House of ...

FOR almost six decades, the remote rural community of Quick Step in the hills of St Elizabeth, at its border with Trelawny, had seen no infrastructural improvements to Quick Step Basic School.The small structure, with very limited facil...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Chief public health inspector for St Elizabeth Everod Lewis says the parish's public health department has been persistent in its fight to curtail mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue.Addressing the monthl...

THERE are currently more than 9,000 justices of the peace (JPs) serving within communities across the island.They are characterised as people of unquestionable integrity who seek to promote and protect the rights of individuals and help...

DR Julian Walters' interest in law came from an unlikely place. During her medical studies she made a date every Wednesday night at 10:00 pm to watch the popular television crime drama series Law and Order. Nothing, she recalled, could ...

MORE than 360,000 Jamaicans who are beneficiaries of the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) and the Social Pension Programme will receive a one-off $10,000 grant this month.This is being facilitated through an ...

MINISTER with responsibility for the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) Senator Matthew Samuda says a lack of adequate human resources remains a major constraint for the department."There are not enough medical practitioners to m...

MINISTER without portfolio in the Ministry of National Security, Senator Matthew Samuda says that the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has been pursuing the release of all inmates who should not be locked up in the island's pri...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CM C) - Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Dr Carla Barnett yesterday announced the appointment of two Caribbean nationals to the executive management committee of the Guyana-based Caricom Secretariat.Ba...

KANSAS CITY, United States (AP) - Carolyn Burnett is bracing for her first Christmas without her son Chris, a beloved high school football coach whose outdoor memorial service drew a crowd of hundreds.The unvaccinated 34-year-old father...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The Air Force has discharged 27 people for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, making them what officials believe are the first service members to be removed for disobeying the mandate to get the s...

CONNECTICUT, United States (AP) - As Miss America turns 100, a major question remains unanswered: Is she still relevant?The glitzy competition, born from a 1921 Atlantic City beauty contest just a year after women were given the right t...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The Associated Press sought answers Monday from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on its use of sensitive Government databases for tracking international terrorists to investigate as many a...

Employers are relieved and encouraged that the constitutional aspect of the claim brought against Cari-Med Group by five employees in relation to the company's COVID-19 vaccination policy has not found favour with the court.However, wh...

Today is the 348 th day of 2021. There are 17 days left in the year.TODAY HIGHLIGHT1998: In the presence of US President Bill Clinton, the Palestinian Council votes to revoke a paragraph in its charter that demanded the destruction of I...

Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Richard Byles is scheduled to appear before the Standing Finance Committee of parliament for the first time under new provisions in the BOJ (Amendment) Act that gave the BOJ its independence. Under sectio...

KENTUCKY, United States (AP) - Residents of Kentucky counties where tornadoes killed several dozen people could be without heat, water or electricity in frigid temperatures for weeks or longer, state officials warned yesterday, as the t...

T he world's most powerful central banks are scheduled to meet this week amid expectations that their policy paths will diverge sharply as concerns that the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus disease will exacerbate an already un...

SCORES of senior citizens went to various vaccination sites yesterday to get their COVID-19 booster jabs, some of whom said they took it for increased protection against the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus, should it get to our...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - Arguing that too many people are falling victim to rapists and other criminals lurking in the shadows of the transport industry, president of Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), Edgeton...

A veteran police investigator assigned to the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigations (C-TOC) Unit yesterday said the St Catherine-based Klansman gang had its tentacles in more than five parishes in the island.According to ...

THE Crown yesterday invoked its powers to haul telecommunications giant Digicel before the court in order to get critical call data records and cell site details linked to recorded conversations between alleged Klansman gangsters and se...

INDUSTRIAL Gases Limited (IGL) and its IGNITE IGL Foundation last Thursday presented five scholarships to two students of medicine and three pursuing nursing at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Faculty of Medical Sciences.Rec...

Today will be a difficult day for Radcliffe Campbell Sr.The cop is forced to mark an anniversary he wishes did not exist. It is now a year since his 24-year-old son, Radcliffe Campbell Jr, has been missing."It is coming around to the ti...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - Prime Minister Gaston Browne says his Administration is considering granting an amnesty to illegal migrants as he urged all people on the island to work together to help Antigua and Barbuda rebound economicall...

BLUEFIELDS, Westmoreland - Over the next four months members of this community will engage in a friendly contest to see who will walk away with a handful of prizes that will be awarded during the Bluefields Best Kept Street competition....

UNICOMER Jamaica has improved its Ready Finance credit facility with added value for customers. Credit is available across its Courts, Lucky Dollar, Radio Shack and Ashley brands. The company, in a release, said it has added more value ...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has announced that Cabinet recently approved a board to be appointed for the ministry's foundation, as it makes an effort to simplify, strengthen and make it easi...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Wary that the festive season may contribute to an erosion of gains made locally in the fight against the novel coronavirus, chairman of the St Mary Municipal Corporation Richard Creary has appealed for people to ac...

Kiwanis Club of Portmore President Vashawn Burnett presents a cheque valued at $40,000 to Bridgeport High School Principal Beverley Harris representing financial assistance for a student sitting the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examin...

BEGINNING today, Jamaica will offer a booster shot to all those 18 years and older who have received a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.The booster can be given with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine two to six months af...

A typical day for 26-year-old Kadene Vidol would include serving customers at Charles Gordon Market in St James and attending online classes.Maintaining a steady balance between her job as a produce vendor and as a student at the Univer...

LEGAL manoeuvres are now under way to have Jamaica extradite Colombian Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios to the United States to answer to gun charges.Palacios, an ex-Colombian army officer, has been described as a key suspect in the assa...

FOR several hospitals across the island trauma cases have been putting a heavy strain on medical resources, frustrating doctors and other medical personnel and costing the Government considerable financial expenditure to provide care fo...

THE dates March 17 and November 26 of 2020 mark two traumatic experiences that Antwaine Campbell will never forget.On both days the 22-year-old met in motor vehicle accidents while travelling by taxi in the Corporate Area. Now, he is to...

Today is the 347th day of 2021. There are 18 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1989: South African President F W de Klerk meets for the first time with imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, at de Klerk's offic...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) was raked over the coals at last Thursday's monthly meeting of the Clarendon Municipal Corporation (CMC), with elected officials saying it is threatening their chances for re-el...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - The Government is exploring whether it should make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for employees of infirmaries, except for those granted medical exemptions. According to Local Government Minister Desmond McKe...

LONDON, UK (AP) - The British Government raised the country's official novel coronavirus threat level on Sunday, warning the rapid spread of the Omicron variant had pushed the UK into risky territory.The chief medical officers of Englan...

A human rights violation report released by TransWave Jamaica on Friday has indicated that 87 per cent of transgender individuals have been sexually assaulted at some point in their lives.The data was collected between June and November...

CLOSE to 1,200 Jamaicans have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine through the efforts of the JN Foundation, as the country heads into the busy Christmas season. "Restrictions have been loosened in an effort to spur econ...

JUNCTION, St Elizabeth - Business operator Kenesha Thomas knows from long, hard experience that "everything works better when people help each other".Hence, her disappointment in 2018 on opening her Junction Variety Store only to find t...

KENTUCKY, USA (AP) - Rescuers in an increasingly bleak search picked through the tornado-splintered ruins of Kentucky homes and businesses Sunday, including a candle factory that was bustling with night-shift employees when it was flatt...

Former Attorney General and Justice Minister A J Nicholson has accused the rival Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) of "derailing" a united effort with his People's National Party (PNP) to achieve constitutional reform that would have led to re...

THE United States Government is working on a new violence prevention programme for Jamaica with an announcement expected by next month.In an interview with the Jamaica Observer last Friday, US deputy assistant secretary for Caribbean Af...