GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) - The Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) Wednesday said it had detained a Jamaican after he was found on a cannabis farm at Nabaclis Village back lands, East Coast Demerara on Tuesday.In a statement, CANU said t...

Minister of Education and Youth Fayval Williams (left), and (from second left) regional director of the ministry's Region Seven, Barrington Richardson; acting regional director for Region Two, Yashieka Blackwood-Grant; and director for ...

Today is the 27th day of 2022. There are 338 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1944: The German and Finnish siege of Leningrad, now St Petersburg, is lifted. At least 650,000 people died during the 872-day siege. OTHER EVENTS134...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) - The distinguished Barbadian technocrat Dr Jean Holder, well known throughout the region for his pioneering work in tourism and diplomacy, has died. He was 85."In tourism, unlike in the case of the export of...

September 8, 2017 saw one New Nursery resident perched atop a table in her house at 3:30 am from where she witnessed the fury of alleged members of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang being unleashed on her relative who was killed in ...

THE 'mystery woman' that 26-year-old Jermaine Bryan died "huddled" against was the one he had just months before told a relative was in love with him.That relative never got the opportunity to meet Cedella Walker, who was the 25-year-ol...

PARLIAMENT'S Public Administration and Appropriation Committee (PAAC) Wednesday approved the Third Supplementary Estimates for 2021/22, paving the way for its passage in the House of Representatives next Tuesday.The estimates had a fair...

THE Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) is still not certain when it will be able to hand down a ruling in the case of 19-year-old Nzinga King who it is alleged was forcibly trimmed by a cop while she was in custody."We...

LONDON, UK (AP) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson braced Wednesday for the conclusions of an investigation into allegations of lockdown-breaching parties, a document that could help him end weeks of scandal and discontent or bring his time...

SPUR TREE, Manchester - Three people, including a pregnant woman, were hospitalised Wednesday following a two-vehicle accident on the Spur Tree Hill main road.It was reported that about 4:00 pm the driver of a tractor trailer lost contr...

BANKS have come under heavy criticism from both Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Finance Minister Nigel Clarke on their decision to hike fees and charges, with the latter calling the banks "tone-deaf" to their customers' circumstances ...

Senator Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, departed the island on Wednesday for Costa Rica, where he will represent Jamaica at the Special Session of the Forum of Ministers o...

PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) Lenworth Fulton has urged the Government to dump the proposal for a temporary suspension of the common external tariff (CET) and additional stamp duties (ASD) on imported leg quarters....

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) - Mozambique, Madagascar, and Malawi are counting the deaths and damage from Tropical Storm Ana and more than a week of heavy rain across southern Africa.In central and northern Mozambique, at least 11 people hav...

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis urged parents on Wednesday not to condemn their children if they are gay, in his latest gesture of outreach to the LGBTQ community, which has long been marginalised by the Catholic hierarchy.Francis spok...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - For the past six years, women in five communities in this south-central parish have benefited from agricultural projects organised by the Women of Manchester community group.The projects, which are aimed at crea...

Serika Sterling (centre), Founder of The Preemie Foundation of Jamaica, pauses for a picture withMischa McLeod Hines (left), Vice-President, Capital Markets at Sagicor Investments, and Ministerof Health Dr Christopher Tufton at the offi...

The Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) says assessment of its data has found no unauthorised disclosure of customers' personal information, and that none of the former employees referred to in a recent auditor general's...

MIAMI BEACH, Florida (AP) - The United States Coast Guard battled time and currents Wednesday as its planes and ships searched for 38 people missing off the coast of Florida, four days after a suspected human smuggling boat capsized in ...

MORANT BAY, St Thomas - Relatives of a man who reportedly jumped to his death at Princess Margaret Hospital are questioning whether the medical facility did enough to protect him, considering that he had been admitted there after drinki...

IN the wake of last week's announcement by Jamaica Broilers that it will hike the price of chicken meat by 10 per cent, Agriculture Minister Pearnel Charles Jr has announced that the Government is considering a temporary suspension of t...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness Tuesday sought to explain his January 9 "argument done" statement in which he reiterated that the country would not be returning to lockdown mode, regardless of the rapid spike in COVID-19 cases that the fo...

NATIONAL Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has given his assurance that members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will be accorded the salaries they deserve as professionals, and that the Government will fix the ad hoc manner in w...

A missing compact disc (CD) with scenes of crime photographs, a vanished logbook, and a damaged hard drive were the subject of testimony given by an empty-handed forensic crime scene investigator on the witness stand in the ongoing tria...

THE House of Representatives yesterday approved a further year-long extension of local government elections, which have been due since November 2020.However, unlike the first extension, which had the backing of both Government and Oppos...

JAMAICA has slipped one place on Transparency International's (TI) corruption rankings, but, in the meantime, the number of whistleblowers has grown six-fold, says anti-corruption activist Professor Trevor Munroe."Whereas in 2020 we had...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Team members from the Sandals Resorts Montego Bay region today cleared over 500 pounds of garbage from a section of the beach and sidewalks in the Whitehouse community located in neighbouring parish, Westmoreland...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Complaints have surfaced that soldiers operating within the zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Savanna-la-Mar South are being heavy-handed when they engage with residents of Coke Street. A ZOSO was decla...

Today is the 26th day of 2022. There are 339 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1998: US President Bill Clinton says that he "did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms Lewinsky". He acknowledges a relationship some months la...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Members of western Jamaica's business sector and political representatives from both major political parties on Tuesday weighed in on the Government's decision to push back the local polls by a year, with comment...

Governor General Sir Patrick Allen on Tuesday declared 2022 The Year of Early Childhood Development and, alongide leaders in the education sector, vowed to improve the functioning and learning capabilities of young children whilst raisi...

THE Parliamentary Opposition is urging the Government to shore up the necessary resources in order to deploy Zones of Special Operations (ZOSOs) to other areas of the island that are being plagued by worsening violent crime.On Tuesday, ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Opposition Leader Mark Golding Tuesday blasted the Government for the current crime wave being experienced across the island, and accused the Administration of mismanaging the national security of the country. At...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - An assistant pastor has been suspended and his fellow congregants are praying for him after a social media post surfaced showing a scantily clad woman pressed up against his pelvic area in a risqué dance....

When will the Canada Federal Skilled Worker programme resume?Dear Mr Brown,When is Canada going to go back to the Federal Skilled Worker programme instead of just focusing on people already in Canada? I think it so unfair that people wh...

A Jamaica Defence Force soldier assists an elderly woman to cross East Queen Street in downtown Kingston on Sunday.(Photo: Garfield Robinson)

WASHINGTON, United States - Wastewater testing, according to a new World Bank report, provides a relatively economic method whereby countries in Latin America and the Caribbean can improve their detection, diagnosis, control, and monito...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon ordered 8,500 troops on higher alert to potentially deploy to Europe as part of a NATO "response force" amid growing concern that Russia could soon make a military move on Ukraine. President Joe Biden cons...

MINISTER without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Floyd Green aims to strengthen the capacity of the Registrar General's Department (RGD) to conduct genealogy tracing.Green, who has oversight responsibility for the digital...

CHIEF Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie says several measures are in place to reach people who need regular care from public hospitals, despite the emergency mode under which the facilities are operating because of CO...

WHITEHOUSE, Westmoreland - Sandals South Coast recently added 11 new supervisory level graduates to its mid-management team as the latest group successfully completed the resort-based supervisory skills training programme. Hand-picked b...

ST JAMES, Jamaica  - Residents of Great River who gathered at the scene of 52-year-old Rose Christian's killing on Tuesday struggled to understand why their community was once again being ripped apart by tragedy. As they huddled toget...

RICHARD Creary, the mayor of Port Maria, St Mary, has come out against recent hikes in bank fees calling them "insensitive" and urging the Government to step in.Creary's outburst comes in the aftermath of a Jamaica Observer story on Fri...

THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is expected to get answers from the leadership of the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) today based on an auditor general information technology audit which found critical informatio...

TAREEK James, otherwise called "A Mess" or CJ, the alleged top marksman and bodyguard of accused leader of the one don faction of the St Catherine-based Klansman Gang Andre 'Blackman' Bryan, was just 18 years old when he was nabbed by c...

AN almost 16 per cent increase in murders since the start of this year when compared to same period last year has prompted Prime Minister Andrew Holness to summon the island's security bosses to a meeting with the Cabinet on Monday.Up t...

COMMISSIONER of Police Major General Antony Anderson has vowed that there will be no let-up in the removal of illegal guns and gangsters contributing heavily to the epidemic of violence in the country."What I have seen, as well, is a st...

Today is the 25th day of 2022. There are 340 days left in the year.TODAY'S HGHLIGHTS1994: Without admitting guilt, Michael Jackson settles a lawsuit that said he molested a young boy. Terms of the settlement leave the boy "very happy", ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Adamant that he will not upend the lives of squatters who have taken over land earmarked for a long-awaited fruit and vegetable market in Negril, Mayor of Savanna-la-Mar Bertel Moore says he will not evict...

CALIFORNIA, United States (AP) - Four people were killed and one was wounded when multiple shooters opened fire at a house party near Los Angeles, early Sunday, authorities said. Police responded around 1:30 am to reports of shots fired...