CONTROVERSIAL pastor Rev Sean Major Campbell has suggested that Jamaicans place more focus on eradicating social ills, rather than criticising schoolchildren for wearing guard rings as a talisman.A Sunday Observer story, entitled "Bisho...

THE State-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) could be dragged before the courts by female employees who are livid after a case against a supervisor they claim is a "serial sexual harasser" was dismissed on Tuesday because of a r...

JAMAICA'S Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, QC, weighing in on a recent media report that the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is engaged in selling voters' data, insinuating that the entity was in breach of the Da...

The Office of the Public Defender has concluded that Nzinga King's locks were unlawfully cut by a policewoman while she was in custody at the Four Paths police station last year.According to the Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry, i...

FOLLOWING the intervention of a well-respected manager, patient care assistants (PCA) at the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine ceased a placard-bearing protest at the institution on Wednesday morning, but threatened stronger industr...

The Government of the Guyana on Friday signed the petroleum production licence for the Yellowtail offshore development in the Stabroek Block, paving the way for the ExxonMobil's subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited...

Today is the 97th day of 2021. There are 268 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1966: US hydrogen bomb lost from bomber is recovered in Mediterranean Sea off coast of Spain. OTHER EVENTS1509: France declares war on Venice.1897: Tur...

Exactly 262 years ago today, Chief Takyi began his short-lived rebellion in St Mary that would be put down by the British, with the support of the Maroons, but not before inspiring the Haitian Revoltion and catapulting him into the his...

Government officials yesterday scoffed at a question that the nomination of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith to become the next secretary general of the Commonwealth could be withdrawn and urged Jamaica...

HEAD of the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Gary McKenzie is pleased that the hunt for robot taxi operators is reaping good results since the operation started early last year.The offb...

Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte has labelled calls for Jamaica to ditch The Queen by the time the country celebrates its 6oth year of Independence in August as impractical.Addressing a post-Cabinet me...

SIXTY local entrepreneurs within the micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) sector are set to benefit from the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) Accelerator Programme.The $60-million initiative is being funded jo...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - The Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has launched a new Data Intelligence Gateway online platform that it says will allow it to serve its regional stakeholders more efficiently."No inst...

POLICE Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson believes the anti-informer culture in Jamaica is changing, based on the overwhelming response from the public to calls from the constabulary to give up gunmen. Speaking at a press confer...

ANDRIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine gathered its dead and collected evidence of Russian atrocities on the ruined outskirts of Kyiv, as the two sides geared up Wednesday for what could become a climactic battle by Moscow's forces to seize ...

EGETON Newman, president of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), has called for a high-level investigation into an incident that led to the shooting and injury of a taxi operator by a policeman on Tuesday in...

The stage is set for today's titanic showdown in the girls' Class One 100m race on the second day of the Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships at National Stadium.Fireworks are ...

 WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - US airport security procedures will become more gender-neutral, with changes to scanners used for screening and the use of an "X" for travellers going through pre-check who do not identify as male or f...

TOURISM Minister Edmund Bartlett says that his ministry plans to increase engagements with a wide range of stakeholders, in both the public and private sectors, to unlock new opportunities to grow the industry.He said that by increasing...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has staunchly defended the Government's decision to put up Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith for the post of Commonwealth secretary general in the face of scepticism and dissonance on th...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has issued site warning notices to Western Parks and Markets (WPM) following investigations into the fire at the Retirement dump which is still emitting harmf...

Today is the 96th day of 2022. There are 269 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2009: Rescue workers using bare hands and buckets search frantically for students believed buried after Italy's deadliest earthquake in nearly three dec...

The Integrity Commission has cleared a senior officer at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) of allegations of impropriety in the award of a contract to an employee, but has rapped the agency for failin...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) - NASA's dress rehearsal for its mega moon rocket is off until at least this weekend because of a pair of technical problems that kept stalling a fuelling test.Launch managers tried twice - once Sunday and a...

WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Tuesday said that US$15 billion in grants would be required this year to help countries, including those in the Caribbean, manage the long-term risks of the novel c...

With many Jamaicans griping over footing the half-a-billion-dollar food bill for prison inmates annually, Stand Up For Jamaica's Executive Director Carla Gullotta is batting for paid apprenticeships for prisoners. However, a former corr...

THERE are mixed views from Jamaicans about removing The Queen as head of State, as the country moves closer to celebrating its 60th anniversary of political Independence. In recent months, the Government has hinted at plans to change Ja...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The long-standing problem of congestion in this south-central town has returned to the forefront following a two-year ease in traffic affiliated with schools, which have now fully resumed face-to-face learning.C...

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - The Biden Administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through August 31, extending a moratorium that has allowed millions of Americans to postpone payments during the novel coronavirus p...

KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Nigerian atheist activist Mubarak Bala, detained in April 2020, was sentenced Tuesday to 24 years after pleading guilty to 18 charges in a blasphemy case that had been widely condemned by UN experts and internation...

Dear Mr Brown,I heard that COVID cases are rising in Canada. I want to know whether there will be another lockdown and when in-person classes at college will be mandatory.-FNDear FN:There have been media reports that Canada could possib...

BEIJING, China (AP) - The COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest metropolis of Shanghai remains "extremely grim" amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday.The director of Shan...

BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian troops of gruesome atrocities in Ukraine and told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that those responsible should immediately be brought up on war crimes cha...

Remittance inflows exceeded US$3.3 billion for 2021, representing an increase over the US$2.9 billion for 2020.Minister of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Leslie Campbell, in revealing the figures at ...

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC) - One month before the state of emergency (SOE) was due to have expired, Grenada Tuesday announced that it has revoked the measure as the island moves towards a certain level of normality, relaxing several mea...

SPRINGFIELD, Clarendon - For her entire adult life Lyn Anderson Nicholson has worked as a domestic helper, earning the bare minimum, but she was determined to make the most of the little she had. Her dream was to build a house and, thro...

DEPUTY Superintendent of Police Jacqueline Dillon Grant is urging residents of Albion, St Thomas, to speak out against acts of sexual offences which have been on the rise in the parish."Sexual offences are high in the parish and many of...

MIAMI, Florida (CMC) - The former Colombian soldier, extradited to the United States last January on charges linked to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in July last year, has pleaded not guilty when he appeared in co...

QUEEN'S Counsel Valerie Neita-Robertson - the jurist who represented former cop Lescene Edwards who was in 2013 sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Aldonna Harris-Vasquez before going on to lose his appeal befor...

PARLIAMENT resumes sitting this afternoon, with two heavyweights from either side of the House of Representatives - Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, and Opposition Spokesman on Transport Mikael Phillips - opening the floor for the 2022...

CHADDANE Harris, the St Catherine gym instructor who, between 2014 and 2019, terrorised women in Portmore, St Catherine, is to know his fate on June 24 this year.Harris, who became known as The Portmore Serial Rapist, pleaded guilty on ...

Champions Jamaica College (JC) and Edwin Allen will start the defence of their respective titles as the 110th staging of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships gets un...

A diplomatic chess game, which started two years ago to oust Baroness Patricia Scotland as Commonwealth secretary general, is now playing out in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) following Jamaica's decision to nominate Minister of Fore...

THE Associated Gospel Assemblies (AGA) has praised the church-appointed board of its flagship Merl Grove High School at Constant Spring Road, St Andrew, for its handling of the conflict leading to last week's formal firing of Principal ...

ROCKY POINT, Clarendon - It hasn't been easy but they made it. Carol and Rudolph Brown, 82 and 83 years old, respectively, have the distinction of being the oldest married couple in their community. A local group, Channels of Hope, rece...

MINISTER of National Security Dr Horace Chang says that the issue of how many guns a single licensed firearm holder can legally own, at any one time, should be addressed in the regulations for the current Bill.Dr Chang was responding la...

The United States Embassy Kingston celebrated Women's History Month with a three-day Women's Empowerment Conference held at Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, under the theme 'Providing Healing, Promoting Hope'.More than 50 women b...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - The police in Trelawny and St Ann are grappling with a truck stealing ring in the two neighbouring parishes since the start of the year.The robbers' modus operandi is to pose as customers and charter haulage contrac...

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Khadrea Folks, who specialises in employment law, believes there's need for changes to the legislation that gives protection to a worker against discrimination, based on health status, at the workplace.In an interview wi...

Chairman of the National Education Trust (NET) Ryan Reid (sitting, left) signs a landmark energy-saving deal with general manager of the Development Bank of Jamaica Denise Arana that will allow the implementation of a massive solar proj...