Today is the 28th day of 2022. There are 337 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2008: Thousands of machete-wielding youth riot in Kenya, setting buses and homes ablaze, and hunting down members of President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu trib...

On Saturday, January 15, 2022 members of the Rotary Club of Kingston East and Port Royal (KEPR) handed over a fully covered shaded play area and repainted play equipment to representatives of the board and staff of the Port Royal Early ...

Prime ministers Phillip Davis (fourth left) and Andrew Holness (sixth left) join Sandals Resorts International (SRI) Executive Chairman Adam Stewart (fifth left); Gebhard Rainer (seventh left), SRI CEO; and Adrian Whitehead (third left)...

Bahamian Prime Minister Phillip Davis (centre) exchanges pleasantries with Sandals Resorts International (SRI) Executive Chairman Adam Stewart, in the company of Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, at the opening ceremony of the new...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The Manchester M unicipal C orporation says it is reaping success from its decision to implement temporary traffic changes in this south-central town.CEO Winston Palmer told the recent sitting of the local mun...

JAMAICANS have blasted increased fees and charges by commercial banks at a time when they are facing tough financial challenges worsened by the effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic.National Commercial Bank (NCB) and Scotiabank Jama...

FACING public backlash and chiding from both the prime minister and minister of finance about its recent decision to hike some fees, the National Commercial Bank (NCB) has announced a raft of changes.The bank in a release late Thursday ...

PROSECUTORS yesterday called two forensic experts as it sought to establish the chain of custody for critical pieces of evidence collected from the scene of a 2017 double murder and arson allegedly carried out by members of the Klansman...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Charging that Jamaica's largest commercial banks are giving the free-market system a "bad name" and behaving like a cartel, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck said here Thursday that the Government could be forced ...

DEPUTY Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey is calling on Jamaicans for help with information that can lead to capturing the more than 200 wanted criminals, saying the police cannot actively conduct crime-fighting efforts on their own."I ...

MINISTER of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Kamina Johnson Smith has given the thumbs up to a joint effort between regional and local partners to increase Jamaica's coffee export into the huge European Union (EU) market.Senato...

THE Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says Jamaica is among four countries in the subregion which are estimated to face the greatest challenges in 2022, due to their slow pace of COVID-19 vaccination.It's o...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has unapologetically labelled as "politically unethical" Opposition Leader Mark Golding's recent call for the head of the country's police force to improve his perfor...

Less than 30 per cent of almost 2,000 businesses across the Caribbean have upgraded their cybersecurity as a direct result of the novel coronavirus pandemic. This is at a time when the scale and number of global cyber threats have incre...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Leondra Kruger, whose mother is Jamaican, is among those reportedly being considered by President Joe Biden to fill the looming vacancy on the US Supreme Court bench. Biden strongly affirmed Thursday that he will nomin...

United States, US - (AP) Gas stoves are contributing more to global warming than previously thought because of constant, tiny methane leaks while they're off, a new study has found.The same study that tested emissions around stoves in ...

FORTY-SEVEN wards of the State, who excelled in their external exams, will be recognised by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) during a ceremony today.Chairperson for the CPFSA's Events Planning Committee, Michelle ...

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) - The Oregon Court of Appeals, for a second time, has upheld a ruling by the state civil rights division that found that an Oregon bakery illegally discriminated against a same-sex couple by refusing to sell them a...

MINISTER without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Robert Montague has announced that he will be spearheading the Government's drive to provide 70,000 affordable housing solutions in five years.Montague, who...

MIAMI, United States (CMC) - The United States Coast Guard said on Wednesday that it intercepted 191 Haitians aboard an overloaded sail freighter about 40 miles south-west of Great Inagua, The Bahamas.The US Coast Guard said that the cr...

LONDON (AP) - Most novel coronavirus restrictions, including mandatory face masks, were lifted in England on Thursday after Britain's Government said its vaccine booster roll-out successfully reduced serious illness and COVID-19 hospita...

MINISTER of National Security Dr Horace Chang says the Government is determined to defeat crime and disrupt the activities of well-resourced persons who are bent on causing mayhem in communities.Speaking at a prayer breakfast held at hi...

Registrar of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Dr Maurice Smith on Wednesday danced around questions raised by members of a parliamentary committee about the widely reported tensions between the two leaders of the 74-year-old ...

Movado "Snowest" Thomas is designing his way into the life he's always dreamed of. Last August the Tivoli Gardens native was moved to tears when he saw his summer collection on a billboard in New York's iconic Times Square. It has been ...

Leteacher Ennis conquered many odds to join the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and climb the rungs to reach the level of a corporal.But Ennis has not stopped and she is now knocking on the doors of the Norman Manley Law School after c...

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 Walder, 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...