The Auditor General's Department has pinpointed delays in reconciliation of bank accounts, long-standing accounts receivables, and advances at the National Land Agency (NLA) that have led to risk exposure to the Government totalling jus...

The Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) is calling for a review of a Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) protocol that requires health-care workers (HCWs) to continue working if they test positive for the novel coronavirus but show...

The Government is being urged to review its contract for the rehabilitation of section one of the Junction main road, which is already several years behind its original completion deadline and fraught with geotechnical and contractor c...

The Government has granted the contractor handling the first phase of rehabilitation of Junction main road a third extension on its deadline to complete the billion-dollar project.On Tuesday the National Works Agency (NWA) said the reha...

Today is the 12th day of 2022. There are 353 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2010: A strong earthquake devastates Haiti, killing 230,000 people, injuring 300,000, and leaving more than one million homeless. OTHER EVENTS1543: Eng...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding on Tuesday labelled the Cabinet changes made by Prime Minister Andrew Holness as a "fairly trivial exercise" that deflects attention from issues of national importance.According to Golding, Holness has not...

MINISTER of Education and Youth Fayval Williams says 954 of Jamaica's 983 primary and high schools have been approved for reopening by the Ministry of Health and Wellness, and urged all Jamaicans to support Government's efforts to have ...

Parliamentarian Floyd Green, who is making a comeback as minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister after a hasty resignation from the Cabinet four months ago, has described as "humbling" the appointment which, he s...

Floyd Green, the Government minister who fell from grace last year under controversial circumstances, has now been tasked with being the "voice and face" of Jamaica's push to establish a national identification system (NIDS).Green, who ...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Leading politicians, activists and a businessman in St Elizabeth South Western have welcomed the recall of their Member of Parliament Floyd Green to the Cabinet.This follows Monday's shuffle of the Executive ...

THE Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) said that effective Thursday, January 13, requests for letters of identity at its head office in downtown Kingston will be processed as a next-day service."Previously, electors could request a lette...

This man is seen in Linstead, St Catherine, painstakingly engaged in paint work.(Photo: Karl Mclarty)

GRANT funding amounting to $20 million is being made available for community-based organisations and committees under the Social Development Commission's (SDC) grant call for proposals.According to JIS News, this is the SDC's second cal...

SANDALS Montego Bay beat Beaches Ocho Rios in a stirring finale to emerge winners of the Sandals Resorts 2022 All Star Quiz competition, recently.The Sandals All Star Quiz Competition is part of a series of team member engagement activi...

Dear Mr Brown:I want to know the reason Canada has to shut down during every wave of this pandemic. If the US can remain open I do not see why Canada has to be so restrictive all the time. I heard schools and businesses are locked down ...

WASHINGTON, DC, united States (CMC) - The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Monday said closing the digital access gap between the Caribbean and the more advanced economies could increase the region's gross domestic product (GDP) by...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - There were mixed reactions in this western parish on Monday to Prime Minister Andrew Holness's assurance that lockdowns will no longer be used in the battle against the novel coronavirus. Businessman Carl ...

Members of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast Committee say they would not knowingly accept groups with cultic tendencies and are encouraging Christians to be judicious in choosing their leader for religious guidance.Reverend Samu...

TOKYO, Japan (AP) - Japan will keep its borders closed to most foreign citizens through February as it attempts to accelerate coronavirus booster shots for elderly people and expand hospital capacity to cope with the rapidly spreading O...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The United States on Tuesday announced $308 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan, offering new aid to the country as it edges toward a humanitarian crisis since the Taliban t...

SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Cards provided by ePay Jamaica, a subsidiary of Alliance Payment Services Limited, are said to have performed well on the first day of use to access the new train service for students. Though only seven of t...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Member of Parliament for Manchester Southern Robert Chin is insisting that the Government's target of equipping each constituency with three Wi-Fi hot spots is not enough.Chin, a member of the ruling Jamaica Lab...

Andrew Holness on Monday recalled Floyd Green to the Cabinet in a shuffle of the Executive that largely surprised political watchers who had expected more significant changes.However, the prime minister said the shuffle is designed to ...

THE Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has delivered a shocker to the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), ruling that it was granted too much in the foreign exchange-net interest surcharge determination in its 2021 annual review and...

Today is the 11th day of 2022. There are 354 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1964: US Surgeon General Luther Terry issues the first government report saying smoking may be hazardous to one's health. OTHER EVENTS49 BC: Roman em...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - The Barbados-based Caribbean Drought and Precipitation Monitoring Network (CDPMN) Monday said that many Caribbean countries will be starting the new season "with a deficit in water resources" as the region c...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) - The human rights group, Citizen Protection Office (OPC), Monday called for the promotion and protection of journalists in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (Caricom) country following last week's doub...

For 37 years Victoria Mutual (VM) Group has given unwavering support to the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB), arguing that the event is worth the investment as it makes a vital contribution to nation-building and social deve...

STAKEHOLDERS of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB) are adamant that the event is still relevant.Addressing this week's Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange, Rev Sam McCook, chairman of the NLPB, said he, too, questioned the nec...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke is scheduled to table the Second Supplementary Estimates for 2021/22 when the House of Representatives resumes sitting today.The resumption follows an over-three-week-long break...

PARLIAMENT'S Infrastructure and Physical Development Committee is today expected to receive a status update on the controversial $1-billion Junction main road rehabilitation project in St Mary, which started in 2017, and has now gone mo...

SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine -The highly anticipated rail service that will, at its peak, ferry 400 St Catherine students to and from school, got under way on Monday with seven students using the train. Transport and Mining Minister Rober...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Nearly 8,000 people in Kazakhstan were detained by police during protests that descended into violence last week and marked the worst unrest the former Soviet nation has faced since gaining independence 30 years ag...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A court in Myanmar sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison on Monday after finding her guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating novel coronavirus re...

ACADEMIC and administrative staff at the Mona campus of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) yesterday suspended their industrial action, which will pave the way for normality at the January 17 start of the new semester.The staff...

WITH the resumption of face-to-face classes, the Westmoreland Health Department is appealing to school administrators and parents to be on the lookout for symptoms of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) among children.The health depart...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - Doctors raced Monday to save survivors of New York City's deadliest fire in three decades as authorities began investigating how thick smoke could billow through the high-rise, trapping many families insid...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - The United States Department of State has announced that consular officers in the Caribbean and other places are now temporarily authorised, through to December 31, 2022, to waive in-person intervie...

NEGRIL, Hanover - Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has lauded the Issa Trust Foundation and Partners for World Health for contributing approximately $57 million in medical supplies to the country's health-care system. ...

Today is the 10th day of 2022. There are 355 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1994: Trial of Lorena Bobbitt, who cut off her husband's penis, begins.OTHER EVENTS49 BC: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civi...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday forcefully reiterated that there will be no further lockdown of the country, putting an end to speculation that a recent spike in novel coronavirus cases would cause him to reverse a position he ...

RESIDENTS of Parade Gardens in central Kingston are cautiously welcoming a just enforced zone of special operations (ZOSOs) with some admitting that there are 'trust' issues with the police and others painfully declaring "it can't bring...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday lashed the current leadership of the Accompong Maroon community, asserting that there is no other sovereign authority on the island than the Government of Jamaica."Jamaica is a unitary sovereign s...

Mandeville, Manchester - The Mandeville Police have charged a would-be thief who was caught in the act by security personnel after he broke into a shop in the town on Saturday, January 8.Charged is 33-year-old Zane Brown, otherwise call...

HEAD of the Jamaica Diaspora Crime Intervention and Prevention Task Force Dr Rupert Francis has accused the Government of cold shouldering the entity and ignoring its efforts to offer solutions to solve the island's social and crime pro...

PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) caretaker for the Kingston Central constituency, Imani Duncan-Price, yesterday welcomed the zone of special operations (ZOSOs) declared in Parade Gardens, but expressed concern that the boundaries establish...

WITH the Disabilities Act set to take effect next month, one senior attorney is imploring the education and transport sectors to not be caught flat-footed.Attorney-at-law Anthony Williams says Sections 26, 27, 28 and 40 speaks to change...

CHILDREN are back at school for face-to-face classes, but due to complications after receiving four strokes, 10-year-old Hannahlisa Hall gets disappointed having to watch other children go out to school while she is confined to her home...

The Disabilities Act, passed in 2014, is expected to take effect next month but, there are provisions which will require employers to restructure workplace policies in order to not breach the legislation.The Act, which will take effect...

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - Advocates for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention centre were optimistic when President Joe Biden took office. And they were relieved this summer after the US released a prisoner for the first time in y...