The Barbados health ministry yesterday issued a public apology to Sandals Barbados, saying that three people detained by the police for alleged breaches of COVID-19 protocols had no connection with the resort chain.The apology cam...

TWO senior trade union leaders say it is time for an extensive overhaul of the legislative framework governing redundancy provisions going into 2021, with COVID-19 still very much dictating the revolutionisation of the labour envi...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Coming on the heels of the recent inaugural flight from Lagos, Nigeria, to Montego Bay, Jamaica, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is optimistic that Jamaica could see a biweekly flight service establi...

Scores of churches across the island held virtual watchnight services on New Year's Eve into New Year's Day because of curfew orders enforced by the Government to slow spread of the novel coronavirus.Minister of National Security ...

After over two months of anxiety-fuelled trauma over their fate as prisoners on United States turf, the captain and three crew members of ill-fated vessel Lady Lawla returned home yesterday, elated to find their feet firmly bac...

THE world welcomed 2020 wary of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China in December 2019, but blind to the immense damage that the disease — COVID-19 — would inflict on the planet, making the last 12 months one of the ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Sixteen tablet computers and a laptop have been presented to children living in the Salt Spring community of St James, under the No Student Left Behind electronics campaign.The initiative is the brain...

THE Government in an effort to end a prolonged land dispute is making available over 1,000 acres of land in eastern St Thomas to small farmers, most of whom were displaced by the closure of sugar factories. ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, January 1, 2021: Sensitive, organised and brutally honest, you're a complex individual. You succeed this year by not bottling up your emotions but by sharing them. Your work reflects this and receives ac...

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — Terry Beth Hadler was so eager to get a lifesaving COVID-19 vaccination that the 69-year-old piano teacher stood in line overnight in a parking lot with hundreds of other senior citizens.She would...

CHRIST CHURCH, Barbados —Visitors and Barbadians returning home have been put on notice that they will pay a hefty price for breaching the island's COVID-19 protocols, especially quarantine directives, if they are found guil...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) — Like a separated couple still living together, Britain and the European Union (EU)spent 2020 wrangling and wondering whether they can remain friends.On Thursday, the UK finally moved out. At 11:...

THE Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has confirmed a report first carried by the Jamaica Observer of a hunger strike by some inmates at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre. The inmates reportedly launched ...

SANDALS Grenada said yesterday that based on the second round of COVID-19 testing which was conducted by the island's Ministry of Health on December 23, soon after the first test and within the accepted incubation period, the resu...

Beating the sunrise every morning, Suedi-Ann Hamilton makes a trip from Kingston to a five-acre plot in Ebony Park, Clarendon, where the young entrepreneur has embarked on an ambitious journey to build an agricultural conglomerate...

SO ME part-time teachers hired by the Ministry of Education to assist schools amid the novel coronavirus pandemic are fuming after reportedly working for months without pay.Two of the St Catherine-based educators, who spoke to the...

The four Jamaican fishermen detained by United States immigration officials despite being cleared by a Florida court of drugs charges should be home by today or tomorrow.US Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia yesterday told the Ja...

A man implicated in the killing and dismembering of his sibling, 26-year-old Jerome Forrester, in the community of Tank Lane in Oracabessa, St Mary, was found dead with multiple wounds yesterday in a suspected case of jungle justi...

As Jamaica continues its battle of the 2019 novel coronavirus one author is focusing on the impact on the nation's children in a culturally creative way.To combat some of the issues a #LetsGetColouring campaign has been launched ...

Today is the final day of 2020 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1879: US inventor Thomas A Edison gives first demonstration of his electric incandescent light at Menlo Park, New Jersey. OTHER EVENTS1494: Forces of France's King Charles VIII ent...

THE Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) are warning firearm holders to desist from the illegal practice of using their weapons to perform gun salutes.This practice is particularly prevalent ...

WITH Jamaica slowly readjusting to normality and the economy showing signs of recovery, trade unionist Kavan Gayle is insisting that the Government implement flexible work arrangements (FWAs), as a priority. ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Work has begun to restore a section of the historic Mandeville courthouse which was damaged by fire on November 7, 2019.The fire, which caused damage estimated at $35 million, forced judicial authori...

AS Jamaica gets closer to the reality of a COVID-19 vaccine becoming available here, there is a call for the Government to include categories of Jamaicans, who have been considered essential throughout the pandemic, in the initial...

THE St Andrew Parish Committee of the governor general's I Believe Initiative (IBI) launched its hand hygiene project recently, under the theme 'Save Lives-Clean your Hands', that will cover 10 parishes in the hope of limiting the...