Today is the 355th day of 2021. There are 10 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2006: Jamaica National Heritage Trust declares Ackendown Castle ruins, Westmoreland, a national monument. The castle consists of the stone remains of an...

STAFF and 15 residents at the Wortley Home for Girls in St Andrew were delighted to welcome a team from Wendy's last week for a special Christmas lunch, courtesy of the popular quick-service restaurant.Wendy's marketing officer Chadale ...

ARTISAN cheese manufacturer, Outland Hurders Creamery and Farmstead emerged winner of the 'Flow Business Inknowvation Pitch Challenge', topping a field of 233 submissions from small businesses across the Caribbean.For its first-place ef...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) yesterday said that together with its private sector arm, IDB Invest, they expect to close this year with US$19.5 billion in new financing for Latin America...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - Former President Donald Trump sued New York Attorney General Letitia James yesterday, resorting to a familiar but seldom successful strategy as he seeks to end a years-long civil investigation into his bu...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - Warning that extremism in the ranks is increasing, Pentagon officials are issuing detailed new rules prohibiting service members from actively engaging in extremist activities. The new guidelines com...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti - Captive missionaries in Haiti found freedom last week by making a daring overnight escape, eluding their kidnappers and walking for miles over difficult, moonlit terrain with an infant and other children in tow, ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - It didn't go according to plan.Yesterday, residents of the Westmoreland Infirmary sat waiting in vain for their loved ones to visit.Staff and residents of the infirmary had been left encouraged two weeks a...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Terrified that the man accused of stabbing Nalia Dennis 30 times, leaving her for dead, will return, family, friends and neighbours of the St Mary woman get off the streets as soon as it gets dark.Their children, t...

DESPITE a verbal dispute which threatened to envelope both sides, the Senate managed to pass the much-anticipated Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption (Investigation and Prosecution Procedures) Regulations, 2021 on Friday.Debate on...

As it moves towards embracing the use of self-administered COVID-19 tests, the Ministry of Health and Wellness says those results will not be included in the national COVID-19 figures.Portfolio minister Dr Christopher Tufton explained ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A leftist millennial who rose to prominence during anti-government protests was elected Chile's next president yesterday after a bruising campaign against a free-market firebrand likened to Donald Trump.With 56 pe...

Senior trade unionist Vincent Morrison says the Government, the leadership of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), and the Police Federation should urgently hammer out a solution to the ongoing wage impasse, as allowing the matter to g...

OPPOSITION Leader Mark Golding says he disagrees with recommendations made by Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown to make amends for statements he made at a People's National Party meeting in Clarendon North Western on November 29...

MIAMI, United States (AFP) - A passenger was forced to disembark a flight in Florida because he insisted that wearing a red thong as a face mask complied with COVID-19 safety regulations, local media reported last Thursday.Adam Jenne, 3...

THE language may not be as admonitory as it was during the time that Donald Tapia served as United States ambassador to Jamaica, but there is no doubt that Washington is still strongly opposed to the island using Chinese technology to r...

ST Thomas Technical High School's Kiara Beckford took the top prize in RISE Life Management Spotlight Jingle competition, which focused on addressing harmful social norms and gender stereotypes that help drive gender-based violence.The ...

PETERSFIELD, WESTMORELAND - The long-awaited controversial house in Petersfield, Westmoreland, that was constructed through the OT Fairclough Trust Fund operated by the People's National Party (PNP), was officially handed over to its be...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Opposition Leader Mark Golding is recommending that people found guilty of praedial larceny be subjected to the rules of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA)."Praedial larceny is a serious issue in the country. Someti...

Today is the 354th day of 2021. There are 11 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHIGHT1963: The Berlin Wall opens for the first time to West Berliners, who are allowed one-day visits to relatives in the Eastern sector for the holidays.OTHE...

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) - With restaurants in Brooklyn closing in rapid succession and lines at COVID-19 test centres swelling by the day, fears are growing in New York of a return to the nightmare of 2020 when the city was the gl...

DON Wehby not only showered praise on his GraceKennedy (GK) Group for winning the 2020 Governor General's Award for Excellence at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Best Practices Awards earlier this month, he also pointed to the signific...

FREEPORT, St James - On the heels of concerns that the tourism industry is having a hard time finding workers, the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector is sounding a similar alarm."We are seeing some challenges in terms of the resp...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Caribbean Hotel and Tourist Association (CHTA) is hoping that increases in the volume of travellers to the region will help drive down the cost of COVID-19 tests, a vital part of the measures being used to ke...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the long-standing issue of inconsistent water supply affecting Mandeville is currently being addressed.Speaking at the handover ceremony of 112 housing solutions - 82 serviced ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) - European Union (EU) members will get an additional 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the first three months of 2022 to fight the fast-spreading Omicron variant, the European Commission...

As Allman Town Primary School in Kingston celebrates 100 years of existence, the current administrators and parents have been charged to continue ensuring that students are equipped with proper values for a greater future.Wynton William...

Since 2010, Jamaica has been experiencing a steady decline in births, records from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (Statin) have revealed.The data reflects that annual births went from 42,372 in 2010 to 34,637 in 2019. In the 10-ye...

IT has been just over 15 months since Rhoda Moy Crawford created a major upset by defeating seasoned Member of Parliament Peter Bunting to end a 31-year winning streak in Manchester Central by the now Opposition People's National Party....

SHE was among a handful of invitees from Jamaica to have flown to elaborate India in late November to participate in the celebration of that country's 75th anniversary of independence.Instructive it was that first-time Manchester Centra...

For the youngest senator in the House of Representatives, Gabriela Morris is quite comfortable with the attempts being made by People's National Party (PNP) officials to achieve unity from within.Divided, following two bruising contests...

It marked her first trip on continent Asia, and for Senator Gabriela Morris, being in India was almost like a wide-eyed in amazement experience.Morris was part of a small Jamaican delegation which visited the continent's second most po...

Jamaican has seen almost 60,000 births to mothers under age 20 over the last decade.A whopping total of 59,591 births to adolescents were recorded between 2009 and 2019, according to data provided by the Statistical Institute of Jamaic...

Two 12-year-old cousins have to walk for over half an hour to a bakery daily, just to get a strong enough signal so they can participate in virtual learning. They boys, from Windsor Forest in St Thomas, said they travel together, even ...

One hundred students who in 2017 successfully bagged the Ministry of Education/University of Technology (UTech) Jamaica, annual full-tuition Technical and Vocational Education Scholarships are now furious at the university for holding o...

UK Privy Council needs to goOne has to wonder why Prime Minister Holness is seemingly so reluctant to start the process of moving Jamaica away from some of the colonial or neo-colonial obstacles that stand in its way.It seems like every...

Heading into the weekend and sharpening up for Christmas shopping, police personnel ensure that the North Parade section of downtown Kingston is well covered. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)  

Motorists compete for space with vendors and shoppers on Orange Street, downtown Kingston, yesterday, while in photo at right a woman demonstrates her strength in carrying articles on her head. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)  

IT'S that time of year when everyone is in a flurry about the festivities of the season. The fit, unfit, and the in-between alike are all making plans to bring good cheer.But, even though the season of festivities can be rather stressfu...

Call him Captain Diedrick. After four years as a pilot and flight instructor with Delta Airlines, the 27-year-old Portmore, St Catherine, youth is now a newly minted captain.Back in June, the Sunday Observer told the story of Jordan Die...

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

MONTEGO BAY, St James - People from all walks of life swarmed the Scotiabank Financial Centre at Fairview here yesterday, where The Edge radio station staged an outside broadcast. Scotiabank customers and other individuals converged on ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Minister of Transport and Mining Robert Montague has said that passengers departing from Sangster International Airport over the Christmas holidays will begin to benefit from the completion of aspects of the over...

IT'S the most wonderful time of the year, but it's also a time when criminals are most active.A local security expert is, therefore, urging shoppers, particularly senior citizens, to be cautious when conducting business and traversing p...

Quick-service food gia nt Restaurants of Jamaica (ROJ) is celebrating the start of the Christmas season through its KFC Add Hope outreach programme with a donation of 1,300 KFC meals towards Food For The Poor's (FFP) Angels of Hope pro...

WHEN we compare the lifestyle of today's adult population with that of 50 to 100 years ago, one of the most striking differences is how sedentary our lifestyle has become. Unfortunately, this change in lifestyle is an important contribu...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - After suffering through a life of poverty, disappointments, and resentment, 31-year-old Krishna Narine now sighs with relief as he journeys through his life as an internationally certified butler.Growing up in in...

After investing $34.6 million in February 2013 for an 80 per cent stake in Mountain Peak Food Processors Limited (MPF), Salada Foods Jamaica Limited has transferred the business operations of MPF as of October 1 to itself and intends to...

IT'S the most wonderful time of the year - the season of giving, warmth, lots of food, and also overindulgence.For many, in the midst of the celebrations and fanfare, scant regard is given to the management of chronic illnesses and diet...

RUNAWAY BAY, St Ann - Constable Orlando Irons is known to many as the cop who died in a three-vehicle crash that also claimed the life of Kevin Smith, the controversial cult pastor who founded Pathways International Kingdom Restoration ...