THE chief accountable officer in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) found herself under sustained fire yesterday as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) sought to get to the bottom of the reasons for the ministry's n...

In one of his first initiatives as Sandals Resorts International (SRI) executive chairman, Adam Stewart has announced the creation of The Gordon “Butch” Stewart Tourism and Hospitality Scholarship designed to develop ...

The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) is to this week release the details of all approved private sector laboratories that can legitimately test for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

THE Jamaica Public Service (JPS) said its recent and new scientific methods are proving effective in helping to keep vegetation off the company's lines. This latest move, it said, is part of a series of initiatives which resulted ...

Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton says that, with Jamaica virtually assured of vaccines to meet initial COVID-19 immunisation demand later this month, the Government will turn focus on addressing negative resp...

Frantic voice notes and old recycled video footage of violence that have been making the rounds on social media since Sunday morning, after the murder of 51-year-old Harry McLeod from Tivoli Gardens, have been pinpointed by vendor...

Today is the 34th day of 2021. There are 331 days left in the year.Today's Highlights1894: The Dirigo, first steel sailing ship, is launched at Bath, Maine, in United States. Other Events1690: The first paper money in America is ...

Annmarie Powell is consoled by a neighbour as she grives the death of her brother, Michael Levy, who was shot dead by a gunman in Tweedside, Clarendon yesterday morning.

LINSTEAD, St Catherine — Digicel Foundation, under its Build Jamaica Grant Programme, has partnered with Dinthill Technical High School (DTHS) in Linstead, St Catherine, for the upgrade of the school's ICT (information and c...

MINISTER of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Kamina Johnson Smith says she strongly believes the new national identification system (NIDS) will help vulnerable children to not become lost in the society. ...

PLANS are in progress for the staging of the Ninth Biennial Diaspora Virtual Conference from June 16 to 18.The event is being organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade under the theme 'Jamaica and the Diaspora...

HEALTH promotion and education officer at the Westmoreland Health Department Gerald Miller has renewed the call for residents to remain vigilant in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19), even as the Government has relaxed t...

YOUNGSTERS in Trench Town, St Andrew, will benefit from two projects, aimed at providing employment skills and musical history, launched Monday by the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) programme. ...

Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) Chief Executive Officer Lincoln Allen has confirmed that when his tenure expires at the end of this month he will not be returning to the agency.“I will return to central ministry at the e...

THE Scientific Research Council (SRC) is inviting professionals working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-related fields to apply to serve as volunteers under its new STEM Ambassador Programme.The programm...

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) — Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D Clarke announced on Monday her appointment to chair of the United States House of Representatives' Homeland Cybersecurity, Infrastructure P...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) — The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency said on Monday that its Air and Marine Operations (AMO) National Air Security Operations Center (NASOC) P-3 crew worked with ...

Amidst the surge in violent crime that has brought death and despair to residents of Trench Town, St Andrew, in recent weeks, two projects designed to improve lives in the tough inner-city community were launched Monday. ...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) — A Moscow court yesterday ordered Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny to prison for more than 2 1/2 years, finding that he violated the terms of his probation while recuperating in Germany from nerv...

FLORIDA, United States (AP) — Two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents were killed and three wounded in a shooting that erupted yesterday when they arrived to search an apartment in a child pornography case, a confro...

LONDON, England (AP) — England has begun house-by-house COVID-19 testing in some communities as authorities try to snuff out a new variant of the coronavirus before it spreads widely and undermines a nationwide vaccination p...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) — Russian scientists say the country's Sputnik V vaccine appears safe and effective against COVID-19, according to early results of an advanced study published yesterday in a British medical journal. The ...

GEORGIA, United States (AP) — Republicans in Georgia's state Senate are moving quickly to limit who can vote and how after Democrats won the presidential election and two US Senate run-offs in the once reliably red state.Dem...

A woman is scheduled to appear before the court on Thursday, February 4 to answer to the charge of concealment of birth following an incident at Belfield district in St Mary on Tuesday, January 26.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, February 3, 2021: Aesthetic, detailed and a perfectionist, you're brilliant at what you do. With your fine sense of timing, this year you hang in there and pounce when the reality is right. Your proje...