Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Fayval Williams, says that measures are being put in place to ensure the safety of students, who will sit the Ability Test component of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) on May 26. "I know that...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Floyd Green, says he will be exploring the possibility of designating bamboo as an agricultural crop in keeping with the Ministry's objective of building a robust bamboo industry and getting more farmers...

The company at the center of quality problems that led Johnson & Johnson to discard 15 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine has a string of citations from U.S. health officials for quality control problems. Emergent BioSolutions, a little-.....

The Government's second coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccination Blitz is to be held this Saturday, April 3, at the National Arena, in St Andrew. The blitz is the mass vaccination plan being implemented by the Ministry of Health and Wellness to...

ORANJESTAD, Aruba, CMC - The Prime Minister of Aruba has resigned. Evelyn Wever Croes, the island's first female Prime Minister who came into power in November 2017, resigned on Tuesday after prosecutors announced an investigation...

Jamaica on Wednesday recorded three COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 599. The deceased are a 76-year-old male from St James, a 30-year-old female from Portland and a 33-year-old female from St James. The death of the 33-year-old was previously....

It was pure joy at the Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Centre yesterday as four-year-old Mary took her first steps. Mary, a resident of the Missionaries of the Poor Nazareth Home, was born without limbs. Winfield Boban, managing director of...

On Tuesday, Fabian Skyers sat with his friends chatting and laughing a short distance away from his house in Sterling Castle Heights, St Andrew. But this vibrant smile quickly gave way to sadness as our news team approached. It has been nearly......

A Stony Hill, St Andrew family has expressed disappointment with a funeral home after the wrong corpse ended up in their relative's casket and suit for burial. Eileen Kellyman-Chen, whose brother Patrick Kellyman passed away on January 15, said.....

Jamaica has instituted travel restrictions for travellers from the South American countries of Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Argentina and Paraguay. This decision comes after a review of the situation in South America where several countries are....

Words like professional, punctual and patient were used to describe slain police constable Jermaine Bennett, who, according to his former trainer, was never late for work in his eight years in the force. Detective Inspector Natrica Bryce-Henry of....

Donette Prendergast, owner of Prendy's on the Beach in Hellshire, and Verol Scarlett, a chicken vendor in Portmore, are two St Catherine operators who are singing praises of the e-Commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS). The business operators....

Commercial sex workers along the busy Port Henderson Road in Portmore, St Catherine, are asking Prime Minister Andrew Holness for an extension to the curfew hours. As part of measures to contain the spread of COVID-19, Holness announced three...

Jamaican men are being urged to pay attention to the results of a frightening discovery by a scientist who said that penis sizes are shrinking as a result of pollution. Shanna Swan, a professor of environmental medicine and public health at the......

A search is now underway for a Clarendon teacher who has been missing since Tuesday, March 30. She has been identified as Natalie Dawkins of Denbigh Kraal in the parish. Reports from the Four Paths Police are that Dawkins was last seen at home on......

BERLIN (AP) -- The head of the European Medicines Agency said Wednesday that there is "no evidence" that would support restricting use of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine in any population, as Germany has now done amid...

Chairman of the National Health Fund (NHF), Howard Mitchell, is reporting that approximately 75,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from the African Medical Support Platform (AMSP) are expected in the island in the next five days. Mitchell......

NEW YORK, CMC - The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency said on Tuesday that officers had discovered 29 finches concealed in hair rollers inside a Guyana man's baggage at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New...

Patients at the Bellevue Hospital in Kingston are to benefit from an initiative by the institution to further improve their mental well-being, through a reading project on every ward. "You know how hospitals are and you have some patients who...

Jamaica on Tuesday recorded nine COVID deaths pushing the tally to 596. At the same time, there were 389 new COVID cases with ages ranging from five months to 98 years. COVID deaths A 62-year-old male from Portland A 68-year-old male from St....