Gwaan my girl, ShenseeaEmerging dancehall superstar Shenseea is making us girls proud and feeling our girl power, as she keeps showing up on the international scene. She just needs to avoid the social media tracing matches which the dan...

Today is the 63rd day of 2022. There are 302 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1965: Syria orders nationalisation of nine oil companies, including affiliates of two US concerns. OTHER EVENTS1789: The Constitution of the United Sta...

The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, said it is willing to open its doors to Jamaican medical students who fled Ukraine after Russia launched a full-scale military invasion on that Eastern European country.However, Cam...

STATE Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Leslie Campbell has recommended that Jamaicans living in the Diaspora register with the country's diplomatic offices abroad.Senator Campbell said that the problems raised in t...

FORENSIC analysis of ballistics retrieved from 10 crime scenes between St Catherine and St Andrew allegedly involving members of the Klansman Gang has revealed that at least 11 firearms were in play during those times.Those firearms, ac...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - One of the 20 local tertiary students who on Wednesday arrived at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on a Eurowings flight from Frankfurt, Germany, after fleeing war-torn Ukraine has said that they wou...

JAMAICA and Jamaicans have had a very long history of world firsts. Many of those feats have been achieved in sports, while others are by outstanding Jamaicans in academia and governance in other jurisdictions.Did you know, though, that...

THE Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) is calling for greater importance to given to prevent obesity in children as World Obesity Day is observed today.One in two Jamaicans aged 15 and older are overweight or obese, according to the Jama...

Digicel Business and Symptai Consulting last Friday presented a sobering picture to business leaders about making cybersecurity a top priority.Speaking at a Cybersecurity Workshop at the Hyatt Ziva Hotel in Montego Bay, St James, genera...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Delano Tucker, the Guy's Hill High School student whose heartbreaking story of need captivated Jamaica's attention this week, intends to make the most of the outpouring of support he and his family have received. T...

After undergoing an extensive renovation through last year, Susie's Coffee Bar, now simply Susie's, located in the Shoppes at Southdale, boasts not only a new look and expanded menu, but has also introduced a happy hour - more like six ...

Health-care workers at Duhaney Park, Waterford and Lincoln health centres were recently recognised for their dedication to duty by H&L which presented them with $400,000 in H&L gift cards valid for use at H&L Rapid True Val...

Country manager and associate vice-president for Sutherland Global Services Claude Duncan has added his voice to other leaders in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry who have rejected claims of poor treatment of employees. ...

PRZEMYŚL, Poland (AP) - Russia's invasion of Ukraine has forced more than a million people to flee the war in just a week, an exodus so swift it almost matches the number of people who sought refuge in Europe in a whole year during...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - An Amsterdam museum said Thursday it has cut its close links to the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and UNESCO warned of damage to Ukraine's cultural heritage, as international cultural institutions stepp...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - More than 40 students from Wright's Academy and Training Institute Faculty of Nursing recently worked alongside their instructors to rid a number of this parish's beaches of garbage. They collected more than 120...

FOSTER care officers assigned to Kingston and St Andrew are encouraging Jamaicans to also open their homes to older children who stand to benefit from a familial setting.According to Judine Webb-Brown, one of the Child Protection and Fa...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Some 20 farmers in Content near Williamsfield in this south-central parish have been reaping benefits from a greenhouse cluster project targeting mined-out lands.Member of Parliament for Manchester Central Rhoda...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke says that there is no need for an alarm about the possible effect of the Ukraine crisis on Jamaica's debt situation."We have made some amount of provisions for the env...

"You have provided for Dupont again, Lord" were the words of 12-year-old Giovanni Wright on Tuesday, as his school Dupont Primary and Infant School in Kingston received 12 new tablets from business process outsourcing company Sutherlan...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - It's not unusual for passengers to applaud when the wheels of an aeroplane touch Jamaican soil, but the cheers that erupted Wednesday evening on-board the Eurowings flight from Frankfurt had added meaning. They s...

DESPITE the dilemma being faced by the Jamaican student who left Ukraine but wishes to return home with her cat, she has decided to seek alternatives as she is dissatisfied with import requirements for her pet.The young woman's cat is n...

After over two years of reviewing and tweaking the National Identification and Registration Act (NIDS), minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister Floyd Green expressed optimism on Wednesday that it will receive goo...

HEAD of surgery at Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) Dr Lindberg Simpson is confident that funds raised from this year's Sagicor Sigma Run will help upgrade the hospital's medical equipment to provide better care for patients.The 245-year-...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - By the second week of March, a multi-agency meeting should be held to map out a plan to ensure that crime-plagued areas of downtown Savanna-la-Mar will get the most out of social intervention initiatives p...

NEWLY appointed Minister of Transport and Mining Audley Shaw said Tuesday that the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) will be spending close to $3 billion in 2022/23 to improve the service provided by the public bus company.Shaw told ...

A Jamaican-born American who can claim to be a distant relative of United States Vice-President Kamala Harris has pioneered a new field in crisis management - crisisology - for which he has received an impressive list of accolades.Verno...

THE Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) has extended the deadlines for the submission of entries for its 2022 competitions.This is to facilitate additional time for potential participants to complete and submit their entries,...

Today is the 62nd day of 2022. There are 303 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1999: An estimated 74 million US viewers watch former White House intern Monica Lewinsky confess the details of her affair with US President Bill Clinto...

GUARDIAN Life Limited, the largest indigenous financial services and insurance group in the Caribbean, has joined forces with sports management company Legacy Athletics Limited to provide much-needed support to Leagcy's team of athletes...

The completion of the renovation of the Gloucester section of Victoria main road in Thompson Pen, Clarendon, is being anticipated by motorists and residents who have been terrified of a breakaway on the roadway.The road was badly damage...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The UN General Assembly voted at an emergency special session Wednesday to demand an immediate halt to Moscow's offensive against Ukraine and withdrawal of all Russian troops, with very strong support from the worl...

MONTEGY BAY, St James - Sandals has joined a community member to help shape the lives of a number of young people in the seaside community of White House here in St James.The influential community member, Beulah England-Kelly, in tandem...

WESTMORELAND, Jamaica - Chairman of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Robert Montague has sent councillors and caretakers in JLP Area Council Four out into the field armed with information on winning and holding onto a seat. In a wi...

The police are reporting a doubling of the number of illegal rifles seized than in the last month. At the same time, murders have declined 21 per cent since the start of the year, contributing to a 15 per cent reduction in all major cri...

A mother on Tuesday said she felt as if 10,000 bricks have been lifted from her back after receiving confirmation that her daughter, who was attending university in war-torn Ukraine, is among 21 Jamaican students scheduled to arrive in ...

One firearm code-named Geraldo, which is among five guns linked to 10 murder and shooting incidents for which the police have fingered the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, is connected to a cluster of incidents spanning 18 years, eigh...

MATILDA'S CORNER WAS TOLL GATE Historians have not been able to tell us who Matilda's Corner in Liguanea, St Andrew, was named for. However, what has been recorded is that its original name was Toll Gate, simply because a toll collect...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) - In rare backing for Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday assured Vladimir Putin of his "strong support" in a telephone call, according to a Kremlin statemen...

MINISTER of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says that while the situation unfolding in Ukraine is likely to impact commodity prices worldwide, the Government expects them to retreat at some point during the year."The pric...

EFFORTVILLE, Clarendon - Eighty-two-year-old Lawson Brown will be able to sleep better at night knowing that his basic needs are covered, thanks to the kindness of neighbours and a businessman who rallied to help.The partially blind sen...

A shipment of IT equipment valued at over $5 million to benefit more than 30,000 Jamaican students in 25 high and primary schools has arrived here just in time for the full resumption of face-face classes after the midterm break. The Co...

THE United Nations and its Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have appointed Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, vice-chancellor of The University of the West Indies, to the governing Council of the United Nations Univ...

UNITED NATIONS (CMC) - St Vincent and the Grenadines on Tuesday called for an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine, even as it adapted the language of Moscow in describing as a "special military operation" what many countries have ...

TISZABECS, Hungary (AP) - Of the hundreds of refugees gathered on the grounds of a small village school in eastern Hungary, almost all are women and children who left their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons behind to fight in Ukraine...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian forces escalated their attacks on crowded urban areas Tuesday, bombarding the central square in Ukraine's second-largest city and Kyiv's main TV tower, in what the country's president called a blatant campai...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - It was a conversation unlike any they had enjoyed in recent weeks so Berilyn Black Hartley and her son, Ryan Parry, were eager, after they spoke on February 23, to spend time with each other. Parry promised to visit ...

The Supreme Ventures Foundation (SVF) has reaffirmed its commitment to national health with a donation of four oxygen concentrators to the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI).The machines will assist the medical staff in provi...

Dear Mr Brown,I have been hearing about how black people have been discriminated against with everyone fleeing the war against Ukraine by Russia. I know that Canada would want to assist the Ukrainians but wouldn't Canada be contributing...

HANOVER, Jamaica - The National Water Commission (NWC) has assured residents of Chester Castle, Haughton Grove, Shettle Wood and nearby communities that they will have water flowing from their pipes by March 10. There has been a disrupt...