Today is the 19th day of 2021. There are 346 days left in this year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1993: The Israeli Parliament votes to repeal a law prohibiting contact with the Palestine Liberation Organization. OTHER EVENTS1493: France and ...

MEDICAL officer of health for Westmoreland Dr Marcia Graham is crediting the health department's collaboration with various organisations and compliance by residents for the decrease in new COVID-19 cases in the parish.“We c...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it has collaborated with its innovation-focused IDB Lab, PepsiCo, and the PepsiCo Foundation in signing a new memorandum of understanding, ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann — Some schools here in St Ann which were approved for face-to-face classes have delayed their reopening because of the resurgence of the number of coronavirus cases in the parish.

JAMAICAN Diaspora leaders in the United States have condemned the January 6 invasion of the US Capitol by riotous mobs attempting to disrupt the certification of the Electoral College victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says arrangements are currently being put in place for the arrival of a second team of workers from China to resume construction work on the $5.7-bil...

This is the third in a series by our reporters on how they managed to cover the news at the onset of the novel coronavirus in 2020.THERE are not many things that can cause a courtroom to empty in a rush, and these would not ordina...

TWO months since delegates of the People's National Party (PNP) elected St Andrew South Member of Parliament and Opposition Leader Mark Golding as the new president of the 82-year-old party efforts are still continuing in earnest ...

THERE were mixed views among some Jamaican church leaders on the taking of the COVID-19 vaccine later this year, but they agreed that members would have to make their own decisions.

A damning assessment of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), in a recent study, has revealed major environmental oversight failures in the country's bauxite-alumina industry.

INVESTIGATORS from the St Andrew South Police Division were yesterday probing the circumstances surrounding the murder of a woman and her daughter in Olympic Gardens, Kingston 11, yesterday.They are Ellia Pascoe, 52, and Notoya P...

THE Universal Service Fund (USF) has started work to identify potential sites to install free, secured Wi-Fi access to the public in Black River, St Elizabeth. Following the monthly meeting of the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporati...

OPPOSITION spokesperson on Agriculture and Water Lothan Cousins has called for greater effort by the Government to avoid conflict in land use for housing and agriculture and to do more to provide titles for the thousands of Jamaic...

GOVERNMENT has completed the pilot project to have detainees from the Horizon Adult Remand Centre appear virtually for mention dates in court cases.This was announced last week by minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Nati...

MOTORISTS and business owners are getting impatient because of the time it is taking to repair bad roads in Angels and Job Lane, both in Spanish Town, St Catherine. The bad road conditions, they say, is causing them to lose money....

Today is the 18th day of 2021. There are 347 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2007: A woman who disappeared in the jungles of north-eastern Cambodia is found 19 years later. The woman — identified as Rochom P'ngieng, 2...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Vaccines from the West, Russia or China? Or none at all? That dilemma faces nations in south-eastern Europe, where novel coronavirus vaccination campaigns are off to a slow start — overshadowed ...

MINISTER of Justice Delroy Chuck says people who breach the provisions of the National Identification and Registration Act 2020, and unlawfully access or misuse information provided for the national identification system (NIDS), c...

THE Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has received the first shipment of 5,000 laptops to be distributed to secondary students in grades 10 to 13 on the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH).The a...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) — The United States Department of State says it is “proud” to support the US Coast Guard (USCG) Operation Southern Cross as part of the US' efforts to build regional maritime s...

MONTEGO BAY, St James – Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has lauded staff of Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James for their continued commitment to outstanding service delivery, despite the chall...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Leader of the main Opposition United National Congress (UNC), Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called on the Administration of Dr Keith Rowley to expand the list of basket items that are exempted fr...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, January 18, 2021:Unique, imaginative and playful, you like to keep life light but demand a heavy dose of excitement and adventure to keep you stimulated. This year, you dream up a project that proves ver...

LONDON, England (AP) — The UK Government plans to offer a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to every adult by September as the nation's health-care system battles the worst crisis in its 72-year history. ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden will deliver an appeal for national unity when he is sworn in Wednesday and plans immediate moves to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic and undo some of Presi...