GOVERNMENT and Opposition members of the special select committee which is considering a proposal for Portmore to become the country's 15th parish, yesterday haggled over whether all the municipality's stakeholder groups should be...

Gurney Beckford, the man who for decades was the face of Dunlop Corbin Communications (DCC) — one of Jamaica's top advertising agencies — passed away yesterday after ailing for some time. He was 83.Beckford, who in 20...

FOUR days after a four-year-old girl was fatally shot during a family feud in Freeman's Hall, Trelawny, news has emerged of another child now hospitalised after being injured during a family dispute in Malcolm Heights, Hanover.The...

THE Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is seeking to have Parliament make amendments to the Law Reform (Zones of Special Operations) (Special Security and Community Development Measures) or the ZOSO Act to create new criminal offenc...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Mayor of Mandeville and chairman of the Manchester Municipal Corporation Donovan Mitchell alleged yesterday that the police have been providing security at nightclubs which should be closed under the...

Most of Jamaica's major hotels are now putting measures in place to have on-property COVID-19 tests for visitors who will require negative results for re-entry to their home countries.

PROFESSOR of Public Health, Epidemiology and HIV-AIDS at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Peter Figueroa says standing contractual arrangements for COVID-19 vaccines with countries with deeper pockets might thwart effor...

MEMBERS of the public have until Friday, January 29 to submit written comments to the joint select committee of Parliament on the National Identification and Registration Act, 2020 (NIDS).Comments may be submitted to Clerk to the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC)— Expressing concern that regional states may not have equal access to COVID-19 vaccines, the Caribbean Community (Caricom) has called for a global summit to address the matter. ...

THE capacity of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) to provide psychosocial support to at-risk children has been boosted with the certification of 24 of its social workers in clinical social work. ...

Today is the 15th day of 2021. There are 350 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2009: US Airways Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger ditches his airliner in the Hudson River near New York after a flock of birds di...

THE 41st National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB) will be live streamed this year in light of the current pandemic. The virtual event will take place on Thursday, January 21.

MINISTER of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke took the nation a step closer to deepening fiscal transparency within the public sector, when he opened the debate on a Bill creating an Independent Fiscal Commission (IFC...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — President Donald Trump's impeachment trial could begin on Inauguration Day, just as Democrat Joe Biden takes the oath of office in an ever-more-extraordinary end to the defeated president...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — The Donald Trump Administration's decision to put Cuba back on a list of countries considered state sponsors of terrorism has drawn the ire of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), which denounced the...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, January 15, 2021: Heroic, idealistic and pleasure-loving, you have a fearless centre that allows you to accomplish impressive feats. This year, utilise it to go after what you want. You succeed brilliant...

FREEPORT, St James — The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) is urging the Government to reconsider its decision to push back, until next year, the start of the planned construction of the US$220-million Mon...

DISCUSSIONS with the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) and its parent ministry on the impact of recently approved mining leases in the Dry Harbour Mountains, St Ann, stalled at yesterday's meeting of the Public Admin...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has promised that a new board of directors will be named shortly, to oversee the development of the newly formed HEART/National Service Training Agency (NSTA) Trust.Responding to questions raised by t...

SIR Hilary Beckles, vice-chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI), and Dr Anthony Fauci, renowned director of the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, are this year's recipients of the ...

NEW JERSEY, United States (CMC) — A Jamaican man faces the possibility of up to 40 years in prison in the United States and a massive fine after being charged with smuggling a kilogramme of cocaine in coffee bags and picture...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — President Donald Trump was impeached by the US House for a historic second time yesterday, charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol i...

AUDITOR General Pamela Monroe Ellis says her department completed 107 of 162 constitutionally commissioned audits of ministries, agencies and departments (MDAs) up to November 2020, but that even with the ground covered those inve...

ORANGE BAY, Hanover — Director of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information's Region Four, Dr Michelle Pinnock, says schools that are participating in the face-to-face resumption of classes are exempted from an earlie...

MANAGING director of the HEART/National Service Training Agency (NSTA) Trust Dr Janet Dyer has given assurances that the agency has moved to fix the loopholes which led to millions of dollars being disbursed for the continuation o...