ROSE HALL, St James - Government minister and former managing director of National Commercial Bank (NCB) Aubyn Hill has weighed in on recently announced banking fee increases, saying banks have a responsibility to help customers who may...

PRIMARY and secondary schools are facing a shortage of nurses as they grapple with monitoring cases of novel coronavirus infections among students since face-to-face classes resumed on January 3.Information received from the education m...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - St James recorded three murders in the space of 24 hours on Friday, pushing its murder tally to 31 - an average of over one killing per day - since the start of the year. The parish is leading the police division...

HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC) - A 40-year-old convicted Jamaican sex offender with Bermudian family ties has lost a final court battle to stay in the island and will be deported to his homeland.Ten years ago, Brittonie Taylor was jailed for 1...

ROSE HALL, St James - Jamaica will be vigorously exploring the option of helping investors who have a challenge getting visas to other countries, a part of the strategy being proposed by newly minted Minister of Industry, Investment and...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - A regional forum examining the use of information communication technology (ICT) in education has agreed that while ICT is a fundamental element, in and of itself, it is only part of the solution needed t...

OXFORD, Manchester -Member of Parliament for Manchester North Western Mikael Phillips has reiterated his plea to the Government for urgent attention at the Manchester/Trelawny border, which has been without a bridge since last August."I...

Having spent 24 years driving taxis in and around Spanish Town, St Catherine, 51-year-old Errol Campbell is urging his colleagues to not be "greedy" when looking for passengers.According to Campbell, greedy taxi drivers could be putting...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann- The St Ann's Bay Health Centre is now much better equipped to withstand natural disasters after a $140-million renovation under the Smart Health Care Facilities in the Caribbean Project. Funding was provided through U...

Custos of St Elizabeth Beryl Rochester (seated left); Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck (seated centre) and acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Justice Grace Ann Stewart McFarlane (seated right) celebrate with newly commissione...

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 ...

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 Municipal Corporation 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 munic...

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...

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...

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 ...

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)...

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...