Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke yesterday tabled a $830-billion budget for fiscal year 2021/22, which, he noted, is strategically aimed at economic recovery following the ravages of COVID-19 in 2020.He s...

The Government has allocated $5 billion for the procurement of more than three million doses of COVID-19 vaccines that, it expects, will significantly improve the country's immunisation programme. This will take the country well ...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday announced the allocation of $540 million for the continuation of COVID incentive payments to health care workers who had complained that they were owed for almost a year...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Clinical coordinator at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James Dr Delroy Fray says 16 people abandoned by relatives are taking up space on the ward designated for the overflow of COVID-19 patien...

The Government yesterday said it has initiated a criminal investigation into the data breach of its JAMCOVID-19 application, even as it reiterated confidence in the digital platform, insisting that it has served the Administratio...

Leon Hines, the man accused of driving the getaway car on January 31 after 51-year-old Andrea Lowe-Garwood was shot multiple times at a church on Market Street in Trelawny, was still digesting the breakfast he had eaten in the mom...

A worshipper gives thanks to God during Ash Wednesday service at Emmanuel Apostolic Church in Kingston. Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent — the season Christians observe and commemorate the passion, death and resurrecti...

The Victoria Mutual (VM) Foundation this week donated non-perishable items, valued at $100,000, to the St Jude's Primary School. The school, in association with the Parent Teacher's Association, hosted a food drive to provide nece...

Today is the 50th day of 2021. There are 315 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2007: The historic Morant Bay courthouse is destroyed by fire. OTHER EVENTS1618: Peace of Madrid is ratified, ending war between Venice and Aust...

DETECTIVES assigned to the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) have identified a person of interest in an ongoing investigation in St Andrew.The man has been identified as 36-year-old Marlon Le...

PEOPLE entering the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon will now have to be scanned by a newly installed thermometry and disinfection machine before they can step inside the facility.The machine, designed as a COVID-19 weapon, is valued...

THE Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) last Sunday re-elected broadcast journalist George Davis for a second two-year term as president at the organisation's annual general meeting (AGM).Following the AGM, Davis told the Jamaica O...

GOVERNOR General Sir Patrick Allen says that despite the challenges of the novel coronavirus pandemic, courts have continued to operate effectively, including hearing matters electronically.He noted that operational changes have e...

J-FLAG (Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays) yesterday welcomed the recent ruling of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) calling on Jamaica to repeal its buggery law following petitions filed by two ...

The Government has indicated its intention to have a busy 2021-2022 Parliamentary year as it moves to bounce back from the ravages of COVID-19 over the past 12 months.Governor General Sir Patrick Allen outlined plans by the Andrew...

The usual spectacle associated with the Ceremonial Opening of Parliament at Gordon House on Duke Street, downtown Kingston, was muted yesterday as COVID-19 gathering restrictions kept supporters of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party...

ONE hundred communities are expected to be impacted by community transformation initiatives being implemented under the Citizen Security Plan (CSP) and coordinated by the newly established Citizen Security Secretariat (CSS).The se...

For the third time in five years the Andrew Holness Administration has announced that the long awaited and controversial Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Bill is to be put back on the front burner.

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is reporting that the man who was fatally shot by cops on the Spanish Town leg of the PJ Patterson Highway early Tuesday morning was believed to have committed a robbery in Z...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Jamaica 4-H Clubs, as part of its drive to intensify and strengthen farming for the improvement of food production and security, recently awarded central region parish winners in the Backyard Family ...

AT least one major road rehabilitation project will be undertaken in each constituency, in the next financial year.This was disclosed by minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, with responsi...

A troubling spike in cases, the haphazard cycle of starting and stopping face-to-face classes and the threatened well-being of children are among the reasons some stakeholders in the education sector are now calling for teachers t...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats proposed a major immigration overhaul yesterday that would offer an eight-year pathway to citizenship to the estimated 11 million people li...

CALIFORNIA, United States (AP) — Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the novel coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths, health officials are report...

GENEVA, Switzerland (CMC) — The 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) yesterday reiterated its call for the World Health Organization (WHO) to host an international summit on the distribution of the novel coronavirus vacci...