THE education ministry says all public primary and secondary schools are to officially reopen for face-to-face learning on Monday, January 3, but it is unclear whether the minimum 65 per cent vaccination coverage for secondary schools, ...

LUCEA, Hanover - Challene Evans, the 27-year-old University of the West Indies student who went missing in the community of Orchard in Hanover on Christmas Day has been found.The young woman was found Wednesday afternoon about 3:22 on t...

COURTS Optical Jamaica is set to gift 200 students with full sets of glasses to improve their general learning experience. The initiative dubbed Brighter View, now in its third year, has so far benefited over 700 students from schools a...

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Daryl Vaz says that his ministry is playing its part in ensuring an early introduction of the National Identification and Registration Act, 2021 (NIDS Bill) in the new year.According to Vaz, hi...

RESIDENTS of Davidson Crescent in Drewsland say they are in fear as they believe there is likely to be a reprisal following Tuesday's fatal shooting of 29-year-old taxi driver Michael Binglin Jr, and the burning of his house in the toug...

KRISANDRA Wisdom and Tamara Kelly were best friends for more than 20 years, their bond, so unbreakable that very often people would assume they were sisters. The two grew up in Retreat, St Mary, as neighbours, where the foundation of th...

POLICE say music producer Mabreco "Tadmar" Watson, 29, who was killed by the security forces Tuesday night in Grant's Pen, St Andrew, was wanted in connection with a murder and shooting incident which occurred on Sunday.However, his fam...

Today is the 364th day of 2019. There is one day left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2006: Saddam Hussein, 69, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled Iraq for a quarter-century and was driven from power by a US-led war that left his country...

HARTFORD, Connecticut (CMC) - A federal court here has found a Jamaican guilty of narcotics, identity fraud and money laundering offences.Acting United States attorney for the District of Connecticut, Leonard C Boyle, said Oniel Wilks, ...

MAGGOTY, St Elizabeth - A 60-year-old woman was burnt to death on Wednesday at a fire at her house in Cedar Spring, near Maggoty.Police identified her as Edna Wright.Wright is the third senior citizen to perish in a house fire in recen...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said Wednesday the Caribbean could serve as a production site for goods such as vaccines and that efforts are being made to get m...

The Doctor's Cave Bathing Club in Montego Bay, St James ,used the Christmas season to honour all the nurses at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in the parish . This was made possible through a special initiative dubbed "Gifts for t...

Sixteen students were gifted laptops by the JN Foundation for Christmas to enable them to be better equipped for online learning in the new year.Among the recipients were twins Christroy and Terri-Anne Crosby, eighth grade students of ...

Carlong Publishers (Caribbean) Limited is moving to bridge this digital divide which continues to impact Jamaicans involved in online learning by providing support to students and teachers through the donation of 30 Samsung Galaxy Tab ...

T he Orchard Gardens Citizens Association in Hanover has rejected reports that the community did little to help during the search for missing university student Challene Evans.Speaking with the Jamaica Observer on Sunday, members of th...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, (CMC) - Air Canada is to halt flights to Bermuda next month because of the latest surge in novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases driven by the new Omicron variant.An Air Canada spokesman said the airline would suspend se...

To culminate its 30th anniversary, Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) unveiled a mural titled 'Love, Action, Support' at the corner of Water Lane and Duke Street in downtown Kingston recently.The mural is a symbol of the organisation'...

CHICAGO (AP) - More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the United States have soared to their highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagiou...

BERLIN, Germany (AP) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that he's worried about the Omicron and Delta variants of COVID-19 combining to produce a "tsunami" of cases, but said he's still hopeful that the wor...

Karen Richards (left), assistant vice-president, investment client services, Sagicor Investments Jamaica, on behalf of the Sagicor Foundation, presents grocery vouchers valued at more than $700,000 as a Christmas gift to health-care wor...

Today is the 363rd day of 2021. There are two days left in the year.Today's Highlight2001: A series of firework explosions spark a massive fire in downtown Lima, Peru, killing 291 people. The blaze, fuelled by dozens of sidewalk stands ...

Local health authorities are examining the most recent recommendation by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Preventi on (CDC) for isolation periods for people in that population who test positive for the novel coronaviru...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - The main Opposition Democratic labour Party (DLP) has blamed a non-caring Prime Minister Mia Mottley for calling a snap general election in the midst of a pandemic and urged supporters to boot the ruling Bar...

Aaron Morgan admits he is still tormented by the shooting death of his girlfriend by a policeman five months ago.On Saturday, the pain deepened as it was the first time in 15 years that he was spending Christmas without the 35-year-old ...

PARIS, France (AFP) - How we laughed in 2021! Yes, the year was plagued by COVID19, fires and floods... but it did throw up some weird and wonderful news to lift the spirits. Here is our selection:A final leakThere was only so long US S...

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) - The Office of the Attorney General has been consulted for legal guidance after a gas tanker which was "rear-ended" by a 207-foot super yacht sank off the coast of New Providence last Friday, according to a statem...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) - Police are searching for gunmen who shot and killed seven passengers and injured several others in two incidents on Monday.Authorities said that the gunmen, who had hidden themselves in houses, fired upon t...

It's the season for giving and Free Likkle Cupboard's founder De-Andrea Jackson decided to build a donation cupboard in Rae Town, Kingston, just in time for the Christmas season. According to the organisers, the cupboard is stocked wit...

EduCom Co-operative Credit Union recently raised over $243 million in capital through a private deferred share offer to its members and other member organisations that closed on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Brokerage firm MoneyMasters ...

Dear Mr Brown:I am seeing that the Canadian high commission is refusing a lot of visas and permits during the pandemic. When do think this will end? I find the whole situation frustrating.- MVDear MV:I can understand your frustration. P...

Despite a year-long conflict that has made Ethiopia a bloody battlefield, Ricaldo "Rusty Zebulun" Marsh has no regrets about moving to the East African country. In fact, he said living there "is my childhood dream fulfilled".Marsh spoke...

Cannabis product company Jacana says it has made big gains this year with the opening of two new stores and the inclusion of its organic Cannabidiol (CBD) products at Sandals' Red Lane Spa in November across all the resort group's locat...

BERLIN, Germany (AP) - In Germany, Lutheran pastors are offering COVID-19 shots inside churches. In Israel's science-sceptical, ultra-Orthodox community, trusted rabbis are trying to change minds. And in South Africa, undertakers are ta...

VERMONT, United States (AP) - Early in the new year, the Vermont House of Representatives is due to begin debate on an amendment that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution and send the question to voters in the ...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Russia's highest court on Tuesday shut down one of the country's oldest and most prominent human rights organisations, the latest move in a relentless crackdown on rights activists, independent media and o ppositi...

IN the midst of the usually festive Christmas season, sections of the financial sector in Jamaica continue to reel from a fallout caused by the central bank's decision to suspend the remittance and cambio licence of Alliance Financial S...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - One Christmas Day in the 1980s, Desmond Tutu led a packed church service in Soweto, the black Johannesburg township and fulcrum of protest against white racist rule in South Africa. An American family -...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - She became a vaccine celebrity by accident. Since being hailed as the first person in the United States to get a COVID-19 vaccine, New York nurse Sandra Lindsay has become a prominent face in the country's...

Today is the 362nd day of 2021. There are three days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1981: Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.OTHER EVENTS1065: The original Westminster Abbey, locate...

BUFF BAY, Portland - Lawmen stationed at Buff Bay Police Station moved into the newly built facility on Christmas Eve, eight days after it was officially declared open.As they get settled in, they are still waiting for their phone lines...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - For the past 12 years Belair Early Childhood and Preparatory School in Mandeville has been bringing Christmas cheer to the Salvation Army's Hanbury Home.The home, which now caters to 21 children - six girls and ...

The residents and staff at five children's homes in St Andrew, St Catherine, Clarendon, Trelawny, and St James kicked off their holiday celebrations last week with specially catered meals and gifts from Pizza Hut Jamaica.More than 160 ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - Trinidad and Tobago registered 610 deaths so far this month from the novel coronavirus pandemic, making it so far the worst month since the first case was registered here in March last year.Last month Tri...

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) - Two Democratic Caribbean legislators have paid tribute to the late South African born Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whose civil and human rights work helped to end ap...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - United States health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the novel coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close c ontacts need to quarant...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Jacquline Baker, a mother of two, recalls that six years ago her husband lost his sight and was no longer able to work.It's been a traumatising time for her and her family these last few years, as they try to ...

BEIJING, China (AP) - Delta Air Lines said yesterday that new pandemic-related cleaning requirements at a Shanghai airport were behind the turning back of a recent flight from Seattle in midair, a move that had prompted a protest from t...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) - Prime Minister Mia Mottley Monday night announced a snap general election for January 19, next year, more than a year before it is constitutionally due.In a national broadcast, Mottley, the first woman to h...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Sharn Michael Dougl as of Red Light District, Irish Town, St Andrew, died Sunday when the motorcycle he was riding crashed at Snow Hill in Portland.Douglas was reportedly driving his motorcycle along the Snow Hi...

A shipment of self-administered COVID-19 test kits are to arrive in the island later this week as the health ministry moves to incorporate home testing as part of the national strategy for self-monitoring and virus transmission risk red...