MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Ministry of Health and Wellness has recommended a halving of the isolation period for people who test positive from a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for the novel coronavirus, which causes the COVID-19 ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Local tourism players yesterday said the advisory against cruise travel issued by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will likely not last long and may possibly be ignored by passengers eager ...

ROSE HALL, St James - Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the Government intends to make COVID-19 self-test kits available commercially, once importation approval is obtained."These kits, once approval is granted to ...

ROSE HALL, St James - Tourism stakeholders have welcomed the provision of 500 COVID-19 home-testing kits by the Ministry of Health and Wellness as the industry is seeing sharp increase in the number of visitors who have tested positive ...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Even as school leaders here are eagerly awaiting the resumption of face-to-face classes next Monday, one principal believes the Government should wait until mid-January to resume physical learning.Chris Dubida...

For decades the streets of central Kingston were playgrounds for many children who grew up in communities dubbed Tel Aviv, South Side, and Spoilers. But in recent days, instead of being able to play, the children have become victims of...

CLIFTON, Hanover - Verona Evans was yesterday still breathing sighs of relief that her daughter, 27-year-old University of the West Indies student Chavene Evans was found alive despite being hospitalised."She is not back to normal, but ...

President of the Kiwanis Club of West St Andrew (KCWSA) Paula Smith (left) hands a gift todeputy matron at the Bustamante Hospital for Children Shailee Neish at a recent joint initiativethat included the Auditor General's Department, Fu...

Kim Mair (third left), CEO, JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation, presents a care package to one of the elderlygentlemen who came out to the RJR Communications Group's outside broadcast, where donations weremade to elderly listeners who were on ...

Today is the final day of 2021.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1879: US inventor Thomas A Edison gives first demonstration of his electric incandescent light at Menlo Park, New Jersey. OTHER EVENTS1494: Forces of France's King Charles VIII enter Rome...

Arguing that even a short period of face-to-face learning will be beneficial to students, the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) says the opportunity should be taken now to try to bridge the learning loss, provided that schools are pr...

THE executive of the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) says it is saddened by the passing of one of its directors, Khadijah Thomas."In this difficult time we extend condolence to her mom, Ann Marie Thomas, and her father, Fitzroy Thoma...

Minister of Transport and Mining Robert Montague says he is confident that regulations to the much-anticipated Road Traffic Act (RTA) will be tabled in Parliament before the end of January.Montague's assurance should have some positive ...

MINISTER of Transport and Mining Robert Montague says a drive is on to get more Jamaicans, especially pilots, trained locally for the airline industry.Speaking while on a tour of the Tinson Pen-based Aeronautical School of the West Indi...

The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) has instituted special provisions for people who do not receive their new voters' identification cards by tomorrow.The current voter ID cards will no longer be valid after Friday, December 31, 2021...

SCOTIABANK and United Way of Jamaica lit up the faces of the children and wards at the Blessed Assurance Children's Home in Adelphi, St James, with a treat for the residents and donation of major appliances to assist the facility which ...

SOUTHFIELD, St Elizabeth - The constabulary's Major Investigation Division is to question one of two men who was taken into police custody following last Thursday's gruesome murder of two Chinese nationals in Bellevue District, near thi...

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) - New York Governor Kathy Hochul has granted clemency to a convicted Jamaican-born drug dealer among 10 immigrants who have "showed remorse and exemplified rehabilitation".In commuting the sentence of Roger...

JAMAICA Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) President Clifton Reader has appealed to his membership to be extra careful in upholding health and safety protocols as the novel coronavirus pandemic continues its onslaught with the new Omi...

TEXAS, United States (AP) - When Westminster United Methodist Church in Houston resumed in-person services late last year, after a seven-month halt due to COVID-19, there were Sundays when only three worshippers showed up, according to ...

Thabo Makgoba (centre), Anglican Archbishop, leads the pall-bearers carrying the coffin with the remains of South African anti-Apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu into the cathedral to lie in state at St George's Cathedral in Cape To...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's health ministry on Thursday authorised a fourth vaccine shot for people with weakened immune systems to help confront rising COVID cases driven by the highly infectious Omicron variant.The approval came as ano...

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 ...

The 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 the...

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...