Today is the 47th day of 2022. There are 318 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1959: Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. OTHER EVENTS1804: US Marines slip into Tripoli harbour and burn US...

HARTFORD, Conn (AP) - The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have agreed to a $73-million settlement of a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 first graders and six educators in 2012,...

SCOTIABANK Jamaica Foundation has donated 132 tablets valued at $3.9 million that will benefit 13 schools across the island through the 'Digital Divide 2022' programme being spearheaded by the United Way of Jamaica. The programme is aim...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - With the resumption of islandwide face-to-face classes after almost two years, students and staff at Whitehouse Basic School have returned to a safer learning environment following the completion of key infrastru...

For the second year in a row, the students and alumni of the St Catherine-based Jose Marti High have shown their support and won big for their school in the BiP 'Rep Yuh School' competition.The competition allowed students across Jamaic...

Dear Mr Brown,I think the use of the Emergencies Act in Canada is uncalled for. It tramples on the rights of Canadians and those in Canada to protest the vaccine mandate. I think it is draconian. I want to know if this will affect trave...

Angered by the deplorable state of a section of Waltham Park Road in the vicinity of East Road and Oakland Crescent, taxi drivers and residents used old motor vehicle tyres and large appliances to block the thoroughfare on Monday in pro...

With an alarming increase of COVID-19 positive cases recorded in St Ann for January, medical officer of health in the parish Dr Tamara Henry is urging residents who have been ignoring the protocols to ensure they are washing their hand...

The Westmoreland Fire Department has charged that an increase in illegal electrical connections in the parish is putting the lives of firefighters at risk.Speaking at the regular general council meeting for the Westmoreland Municipal C...

Mayor of Savanna-la-Mar Bertel Moore, in his opening address to last Thursday's monthly meeting of the Westmoreland Municipal Council, lamented the crime situation in the parish and called on Government to engage more youths in order to...

CHIEF Justice Bryan Sykes ruled on Monday that the recordings of purported conversations between alleged members of the St Catherine-based Klansman Gang met the legal standards to be heard by the court.Justice Sykes said the evidence of...

THE Government is determined to avoid introducing any new revenue measures, which could upset its projected per cent growth for 2022/23.Outlining his policy plans for the new fiscal year, which starts on April 1, Minister of Finance and...

THE Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is mounting pressure on the Government to eliminate the performance task component of the 2021/2022 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) for grade six students slated for next month.JTA President Winston Sm...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - The Kremlin signalled Monday it is ready to keep talking with the West about security grievances that led to the current Ukraine crisis, offering hope that Russia might not invade its beleaguered neighbour within d...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Superintendent in charge of the Portland Police Division Kenneth Chin told the municipal corporation meeting last Thursday that there have been lower crime numbers in the parish since the start of this year, wit...

Today is the 46th day of 2022. There are 319 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1964: Cassius Clay - who changed his name to Muhammad Ali - becomes the world's heavyweight boxing champion. OTHER EVENTS399 BC: Philosopher Socrates i...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - One of two men who the police say engaged them in a fire fight during an incident in which the most wanted man in the parish was killed, has turned himself in to the cops. Devani "Santa" Bennett surrender...

BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - Chief Justice Brian Sykes says while the fire that gutted the century-old courthouse in Brown's Town, St Ann, on Sunday night was "very disruptive", the court will continue to sit. In fact, cases were tried at nea...

OPPOSITION Senator Dr Floyd Morris broke out in song on Monday as he expressed joy that the Disabilities Act, which he had championed for more than two decades, is finally now in effect."I feel like jumping, whoo whoo. I feel like shout...

As part of its Safer Internet Month awareness campaign, dubbed Tech Time Online, digital operator Digicel will be educating persons about how to spot the latest online scams. The topic will be in focus during Tech Talk Tuesday - a live...

WITH public schools poised to reopen fully next month after two years in limbo, one organisation is urging the Education Ministry to use the reset afforded by the pandemic to conduct a widescale assessment of so-called problem students....

IN an environment where children's organisations rise and fall in relatively short time frames, Hear The Children's Cry founder Betty Ann Blaine is celebrating the survival of the non-governmental entity for the last 20 years.However, d...

Today is the 45th day of 2021. There are 320 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2012: Oscar Pistorious, the double-amputee Olympic sprinter dubbed the Blade Runner, is charged in the slaying of his girlfriend at his upscale home in ...

With the vast majority of Jamaicans opposed to mandatory vaccination against COVID-19, according to the findings of a recent Bill Johnson-Mello TV poll, Opposition Spokesperson on Health Dr Morais Guy says the omicron variant of the vi...

ON Valentine's Day comes a heart-warming story of a creative St Andrew Parish Court judge who sentenced a juvenile offender to attend church every fortnight, report to a police station, and enrol in a school, instead of sending him to j...

IN the article in our Friday February 11, 2022 edition on the Jamaica Environment Trust's (JET) comments in relation to Government's announcement that Cabinet approved specific policy directives to declare the boundaries of the Cockpit ...

Pictured last Friday in a special moment are Prime Minister Andrew Holness (centre), Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton (right), and Jamaica's history-making Dr Sandra Lindsay, the first person to get the COVID-19 vaccin...

LILLIPUT, St James - Crime scene investigators were kept busy in sections of Lilliput, St James, where three people, including a teenager, were shot and killed by unknown assailants in two separate incidents on Saturday.Police identifie...

WHEN the Pan American Health Organization said last week it had found that the pandemic toll on doctors, nurses and other front-line health workers had meant more patients, longer working hours and higher rates of COVID-19 infection, it...

After decades of decline, US unions have a new reason for hope - younger workers.Workers in their 20s, and even in their teens, are leading ongoing efforts to unionise companies large and small, from Starbucks and REI to local cannabis...

MARSEILLE, France (AFP) - France, which holds the European Union's rotating presidency, said on Sunday that the bloc would firmly back its fellow member Lithuania in its brewing trade war with China.French Trade Minister Franck Riester ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) - An angry mob stoned to death a mentally ill man in Pakistan, authorities said Sunday, in the country's latest case of blasphemy-related violence.Dozens of people have been arrested over the lynching, which ha...

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) - US President Joe Biden spoke at length Sunday with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky about Russia's military build-up along Ukraine's borders, with the pair committing to pursue "diplomacy and de...

DESTINY - and Cupid - had definitely made plans for two Ferncourt High school ninth graders whose love story dates back to their first home economics class in 2011 and later blossomed into Shannoya Roberts and Cori Keyes becoming man an...

BRITISH-BORN Jamaican Kuba Shand Baptiste, the first winner of the Barbara Blake-Hannah (BBH) Award meant to level the playing field in UK journalism, which has largely excluded blacks and minorities, is finally here.Shand-Baptiste left...

REGIONAL investment group Dequity Capital Management Limited has acquired a 40 per cent stake in Royale Medical Hospital, Westmoreland. The investment, which is valued at more than $200 million, is the latest move by Dequity to diversif...

ALLEGING that several lottery scammers are seeking refuge in St Mary, head of the police division in the parish Superintendent Bobette Morgan-Simpson has appealed to property owners to be wary of people seeking houses to rent."What we f...

ISLINGTON, St Mary -While helping to unveil a community Wi-Fi hotspot at Islington in St Mary Central last week, Member of Parliament for the constituency Dr Morais Guy lamented the slow pace at which development has been taking place i...

Jamaican-born United States Navy Reserves Lieutenant Commander Diego McKnight brought tears of joy and spontaneous celebrations as he taxied down the Dallas, Texas, runway at the control of his inaugural commercial flight to Guadalajar...

Police gather to clear protestors against COVID-19 vaccine mandates who blocked the entrance to the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Canada, on February 13, 2022. Canadian police resumed operations Sunday to clear a key US border bridge oc...

Servicemen of Ukrainian Military Forces move US-made FIM-92 Stinger missiles, a manportable air-defence system (MANPADS), that operates as an infrared homing surfaceto- air missile (SAM), and the other military assistance shipped from L...

THE mother of two boys, aged six and 12 years old, who were among seven children assaulted, is confident that justice will prevail and her sons' perpetrator will face time for his crimes.The alleged perpetrator, Sheridan Shepherd of a S...

A man leaps over sewage which has been flowing along West Parade and Orange Street since early last week, without being attended to by the Kingston & St Andrew Municipal Corporation, causing distress to merchants and shoppers alike....

Community health aid Cadie Jackson hands over a mask to Half-Way-Tree vendor "Don" yesterday as part of the Ministry of Health and Wellness's drive to give away two million masks to members of the public.(Photo: Karl McLarty)   ...

Nicholai Gayle and Shereika Gordon (foreground) of Rex Nettleford Hall, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, unveil a mural in honour of slain Guyanese politician, historian, academic, and black conscious activist Dr Walter R...

Who trimmed Rasta girl then?FINALLY! The decisions of the director of public prosecutions (DPP) into the matter of the alleged trimming of the locks of Rastafarian young lady Nzinga King are out. Some had expected, though, that the outc...

He has confirmed that he has been issued a threat by a player in the poultry industry, but Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr has four simple words for that individual: "I have no fear."The threat, according to Charl...

BLUEFIELDS, Westmoreland - The police here have confirmed that a man who was sitting atop the wanted list in the parish was killed during an alleged firefight with members of a security forces squad around midday yesterday.The police sa...

Although there is hesitancy within education circles about the Sixth Form Pathway Programme and whether or not it is relevant in today's Jamaica, Minister of Education and Youth Fayval Williams continues to embrace it with glee.She main...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - As the world moves towards utilising more sustainable and renewable energy in its mobility, CEO of EV Power Jamaica Ltd (Evergo), Wayne McKenzie said Jamaica will see an influx of electric cars in the coming year...