GOVERNMENT minister and Portland Western Member of Parliament (MP) Daryl Vaz yesterday lashed out at individuals who have been fraudulently using his name to scam unsuspecting people in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme which involved ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - President of the influential Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) Janet Silvera is tipped to return as head of the 88-year-old chamber during the advocacy group's annual general meeting (AGM) at t...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Rolland "Dr Love" Martin feels underappreciated. For more than 40 years, he said, he has maintained a beach in this resort town, and though it is now informally named after him, the local authorities refuse to rec...

Disgruntled farmers in Bernard Lodge, St Catherine, were quick to take the opportunity to appeal directly to Prime Minister Andrew Holness for a review of the amounts they will be paid for compensation and to fast-track the payments to ...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has promised that the six science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) schools his Administration plans to build will be done with information technology at the forefront to ensure that student...

Students at Bethlehem Primary and Infant School in Malvern, St Elizabeth, were all smiles after a recent visit from popular entertainer Anthony Fairclough, otherwise known as Papa Michigan, along with members of the Flow Foundation team...

 SENIOR Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Sharon Millwood-Moore says errant parents and guardians should bear the brunt of scrutiny and blame when their offspring are involved in child-on-child sexual offences.Millwood-Moore, who ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The St James police yesterday morning discovered in bushes at John's Hall in the parish the headless body of a man whom they theorise was one of the gunmen who ran amok in the community on Sunday, leaving seven p...

HAYES, Clarendon - Determined to strengthen their relationship with residents of this community that was rocked by a fatal car crash and three days of protests against the police, members of police youth clubs (PYC) from across the coun...

STEER TOWN, St Ann - A couple who migrated after completing nursing school together in Jamaica has shown benevolence and patriotism by pumping $2.2 million into primary health care in this parish.Ranny and Janice Watson said their donat...

LOCAL health-care company Novamed has announced an expansion of its portfolio to include a career consultancy arm geared towards providing expert technical and administrative support and guidance to students and professionals in the med...

SATURDAY mornings in Duhaney Park, St Andrew, are now marked by free English and mathematics classes for students who, since the novel coronavirus pandemic, have been facing a learning loss due to the disparities in the education system...

NASSAU, The Bahamas, (CMC) - The main Opposition Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) says if it wins the next general elections it will scrap immediately the travel health visa requirement, even as the Government announced that 300,000 visa...

WITH some Jamaicans expressing that they would be more willing to take COVID-19 vaccines developed by Caribbean neighbour Cuba, director of family health services in the Ministry of Health and lead clinician for the national COVID-19 va...

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1995: A posh five-storey department store in Seoul, South Korea, collapses, killing at least 114 people and injuring 910. OTHER EVENTS1520: Montezuma II, ninth and last emperor of the Aztecs, dies in Tenochtitlan of wo...

LAS VEGAS, United States (AP) - For the first time in the pageant's history, the title of Miss Nevada USA has been won by a transgender woman.Kataluna Enriquez was crowned the winner Sunday at the South Point hotel-casino in Las Vegas.T...

FLORIDA, United States (AP) - Rescuers searching for a fifth day for survivors of a Florida condo building collapse used bucket brigades and heavy machinery yesterday as they worked atop a precarious mound of pulverised concrete, twiste...

DEMAR Hemley says teaching students who were poor at multiplying to solve mathematical problems, but who are now correcting him if he makes a mistake, is an experience that puts a smile on his face. "I would make a mistake, sometimes I ...

The long and deep Haiti-Jamaica connection is continuing with the success of a group, led by Jamaican Ephraim Martin, in getting an iconic street named after Chicago's black founder, the under-recognised Haitian Jean Baptiste Pointe DuS...

WESTMORELAND, Jamaica - Administrators of the Hatfield Wesleyan Holiness Church were happy yesterday as they welcomed members they have not seen face-to-face for far too long. For some, it was the first time in over a year they had gath...

FATHER of murdered Anglican priest Larius Lewis would like the court to turn over his son's killers to him so that he "can get the justice" he really wants, despite the two murderers being sentenced to life in prison.The grieving father...

THE National Council on Education (NCE) says it welcomes the announcement made by Prime Minister Andrew Holness that schools should reopen for face-to-face learning in September of this year. The need for face-to-face learning supports ...

A lack of effective communication, transparency, and understanding of priorities are barriers that affected the collaboration among some tourism stakeholders across the Caribbean region amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. That was one ...

Relatively new player in Jamaica's gaming sector, Izizzi Games has started to set its sights on the rural parishes with a massive roll-out in Portland last Friday.It was a carnival like atmosphere on the streets of Port Antonio when sup...

UNIVERSITY graduate Dushaine Carty, 24, wiped the sweat from his brow as he trudged through his field of sweet potatoes near Linstead St Catherine, yesterday. He walked through a lush row of produce, pausing periodically to tug at the g...

PORTUM, an app developed to identify people who have contracted the novel coronavirus and their contacts, could be Jamaica's saviour as the Government seek, growth levels in commerce and entertainment while managing the economy through ...

NORWOOD, St James - Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says a number of violence producers, including lottery scammers, in Norwood, St James, managed to elude the security forces dragnet by taking flight from the community when the zone ...

The National Baking Company Foundation has again partnered with Food for the Poor to donate 11 houses in support of the virtual 'Race for Hunger' fund-raising efforts.In 2020, the National Baking Company Foundation committed to, and del...

The pickup truck seen yesterday travelling on Spanish Town Road in St Andrew is not only overloaded, but men riding in the back are too close and not wearing masks, making it an easy case for spreading the novel coronavirus if anyone is...

Today is the 179th day of 2021. There are 186 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2000: Seven months after floating adrift in the Florida straits, six-year-old Elian Gonzalez returns to his native Cuba, bringing to a close a fierce c...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Grenada's Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell is leading an initiative of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) to eliminate roaming charges for Caribbean nationals travelling within the region.Mitchell, accompanied ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (CMC) -The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says the region has all the right conditions to become a renewable energy hub with great potential in green hydrogen."Several countries in Latin ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Barbados says it will from this week, be in a position to screen positive novel coronavirus cases for all variants of the virus as the authorities urged people here to get vaccinated in a bid to prevent the ...

MISSISSIPPI, United States (AP) - Never before seen case files, photographs, and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to the public for the firs...

FLORIDA, United States (AP) - Rescuers digging through the rubble of a Florida beachfront condo sought to reassure families that they were doing as much as possible to find missing loved ones, but the crews said they needed to work care...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - Thrown offstride to reach its COVID-19 vaccination goal, the Biden Administration is sending A-list officials across the country, devising ads for niche markets and enlisting community organisers to...

PARIS, France (AP) - Mainstream candidates delivered a stinging setback to France's far right in regional elections on Sunday, thwarting its hopes of winning control of a region for the first time and slowing its momentum ahead of the p...

One of the over 100 medical doctors now facing the axe over a contract dispute has hit out at the Government for its handling of the arrangements.The doctor, who asked not to be named, is, like his colleagues, facing the possibility of...

Refusing to be distracted by her overnight fame in becoming the first person in the United States to take the COVID-19 vaccine, Clarendon-born Jamaican critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay has received her PhD in health sciences at the ce...

THE teachers' union and school principals appear to be heading toward an agreement to allow students who deferred their 2021 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) examinat...

THERE are hardly words to describe the joy Nation Builders Development Centre's p rincipal Lois Hamilton Forester felt after learning earlier this year that her school would be getting a new bathroom, courtesy of a few University of Te...

The consequences of a lack of equitable access to vaccines continue to be evident in Jamaica and in many other developing countries. The shortage of vaccines in developing countries, due partially to hoarding by developed countries, ha...

MORE men have committed suicide than women since 2000, data recorded by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) have revealed.Between 2000 and 2019 1,008 cases of suicide have been reported, with men accounting for 84 per cent of that figu...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - President of the People's National Party (PNP) Mark Golding says the party is gearing up for the local government election which was postponed last year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Amendments to the R...

AWESTRUCK, a young Jordan Diedrick would be at home in Cumberland in Portmore, St Catherine, looking up at passing airplanes. One day, he even drew a picture of a plane with himself inside as the pilot.Today, the 27-year-old spends most...

Vaccine shortage due to Jamaica's poor overseas linksJAMAICA'S image in the eyes of the world, despite the scourge of crime and violence, is laced with uncountable positives.The performances by sportsmen and artistes over the years, des...

IN the space of a day, a four-year-old girl lost her mother, a younger, unborn sibling and her stepfather. The girl's mental burden started last Sunday after she discovered her pregnant mother's body shortly after 2 o'clock in Rhoden Ha...

Cherrita Bailey Martin, a registered midwife at the Sandy Bay Health Centre in Clarendon gets comfortable with the new chair and desk donated to the health centre by the JN Circle, May Pen and Old Harbour. JN Circles, which are located ...

Executive director of Mustard Seeds Communities in St Andrew Darcy Tulloch Williams (left) and Monsignor Gregory Ramkissoon, director of Mustard Seeds Communities help cut the ribbon for a newly renovated physiotherapy room at Mustard S...

Director of Eve for Life, Joy Crawford, is demanding that the Government makes the sex offenders registry open to the public. Crawford was speaking at a sexual abuse and child trafficking seminar on Friday, initiated by the Ministry of...