Following last week's abduction of two young girls in St Thomas, allegedly at the hands of a man before the court on a rape charge, a call is again being made for Government to make the Sex Offender Registry open to the public."The publ...

CHIEF Justice Bryan Sykes is to this morning indicate whether a further hiatus is in the wings for the trial of the 32 men and one woman accused of being members of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, which was yesterday adjourned for...

THE auditor general's position as one of five commissioners on the Integrity Commission, and her office's constitutional mandate as it relates to auditing of government entities was a point of contention at the first meeting of the parl...

OPPOSITION Leader Mark Golding yesterday issued a strong defence of his proposal for a $12,000 per week national minimum wage, saying that the increase would help to address some of the issues of poverty facing the country."There has no...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Vendors eager to return to their livelihood in the Melrose Yam Park will have to wait at least another month for the completion of rehabilitation work on the facility which was closed by the health department tw...

ALEXANDRIA, St Ann - Dexie Bailey is hoping the COVID-19 vaccine will open doors for him to walk through straight to America. He took the jab last Thursday, a step towards his goal of being employed as a farm worker."A good likkle time ...

Eight male members and the pastor of Pathway International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James, where two people were killed on Sunday night in a bizarre ritual, remain in police custody as detectives contemplate what charges th...

Parliamentarians say they and other public sector employees are alarmed at the intrusiveness of the new voluntary declaration of assets form being implemented by the Integrity Commission, and that the commission needs to justify the add...

Today is the 293rd day of 2021. There are 72 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2011: Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's dictator for 42 years until he was ousted in an uprising-turned-civil war, is killed as revolutionary fighters overwhelm ...

A woman who evaded a police dragnet in September after allegedly stabbing her 42-year-old sister, Josephine Martin, to death during an argument at a premises on Little Kew Road in St Andrew remains on the run, despite concentrated effor...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Councillors and staff at the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) all showed up last Thursday morning excited to see a new water truck parked in front of the building.This brings to two the number of t...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - The Clarendon Municipal Corporation (CMC) is working alongside the parish's health department to devise a strategy to get the homeless and mentally ill vaccinated. The corporation's CEO Rowhan Blake made the disclos...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - As of November 1, anyone physically attending meetings at the St Mary Municipal Corporation (SMMC) will need to provide proof of vaccination or provide a negative antigen test for COVID-19. Port Maria's mayor and c...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The collection of solid waste by Western Parks and Market (WPM) was again a cause of contention in the St James Municipal Corporation (SJMC) as councillors clashed upon hearing the monthly report shared by WPM's...

New Fortress Energy partnered with Food For the Poor to construct and install hand-washing stations at 10 primary schools in St Catherine and Clarendon to strengthen preparations for the reopening of face-to-face classes.The schools in ...

THE United States Embassy, in partnership with the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), hosted a two-day virtual forum under the theme 'Effective Business Recovery Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic'. The event, held on Octob...

Q: I've had a non-immigrant B1/B2 visa in the past, but it is expired. Is it possible to get a visa without having to wait many months for an in-person appointment?A: Yes, absolutely! You may be eligible for the Interview Waiver Program...

Dear Mr Brown,I am married to a Canadian citizen who is much older than me. I am in my early 30s, while he is in his 70s. I have confidence in our relationship and that he will be able to sponsor me. I also know of other similar relatio...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - Lawmakers investigating the deadly assault on the US Capitol voted unanimously yesterday to pursue criminal contempt charges for a key ally of former president Donald Trump for refusing to testify.F...

LONDON, England (AP) - A group comprising dozens of nations, particularly vulnerable to the effects of global warming, has laid out their key demands ahead of the upcoming UN climate summit in Glasgow.These include getting rich countrie...

PHENIX CITY, United States (AP) - Sometimes when she's feeding her infant daughter, Amanda Harrison is overcome with emotion and has to wipe away tears of gratitude. She is lucky to be here, holding her baby. Harrison was 29 weeks pregn...

MOSCOW (AP) - Dr Georgy Arbolishvili doesn't need to see government statistics or hear about the records being broken every day for infections and deaths to know that Russia is struggling through a particularly alarming phase of the nov...

THEY used their bodies as human shields for their two injured colleagues who were shot by alleged cop killer Damion Hamilton on June 12 last year.A year later, that selfless act saw their country, on the day it celebrates its heroes, nu...

AMONG the items on Wayne Messam's bucket list was to meet General Colin Powell. The current mayor of Miramar in South Florida never fulfilled that dream but had an enduring admiration for the former United States secretary of state whos...

NEW YORK, USA - The pall of gloom which descended yesterday over the Jamaican communities across the United States was palpable, as news hit home that an illustrious son of Jamaican parents and a symbol of the successful immigrant story...

Former Jamaican ambassador to the United States Dr Richard Bernal remembers General Colin Powell as a charismatic and confident personality who quickly absorbed "an enormous amount of complex information and get to the gravamen of the m...

There were obvious signs that Tammara Logan was tired. But the joy she felt at finding her 13-year-old daughter Winshae Barrett alive yesterday was visible in her eyes."Relief, that is what I feel right now. Relief is the correct word,...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The chilling scene of a fellow congregant's throat being slashed sent one woman scurrying from Pathway International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Albion, St James, Sunday night. The woman, who asked not to b...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Councillor of the Borobridge Division in St Ann South Western Winston Brown has called for an agile approach in reconstructing roads in the division that were destroyed by heavy rain associated with tropical storms G...

Today is the 292 day of 2021. There are 73 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1992: African National Congress President Nelson Mandela acknowledges that prisoners in congress military camps had been tortured during the 1980s and ear...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Colin Powell, the barrier-breaking soldier and diplomat who served Democratic and Republican presidents in war and peace but whose sterling reputation was stained by his faulty claims to justify the United States (US) ...

With the annual revival of the debate about appointing a new national hero, thanks to the National Heroes' Day celebrations, Jamaicans have continued to be divided in their views, with some saying the country is ready for a new national...

THE Jamaican flag flew high and proud once again as the United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken honoured Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) nurse sister, Antonia Richards-Stewart for outstanding work on the COVID-19 front line.Stewa...

LUCEA, Hanover - Stacy Ann Allen Brown, a registered nurse at the Noel Holmes Hospital who helped Hanover's first recorded COVID-19 patient come to grips with being infected, was among 20 health-care workers honoured during this year's ...

A disabled Jamaican US Air Force veteran living in Connecticut is thanking everyone who made it possible to get his Portmore, Jamaica-based daughter to Connecticut for a crucial surgery that could save his life.Martin Goodrich, 59, had ...

Leader of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) Mark Golding pledged his party's commitment to righting societal injustices in Jamaica and ensuring that anti-corruption laws work effectively."The way in which the current prime mi...

SANTIAGO, Chile - Executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Alicia Bárcena says cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean offers an opportunity to reduce global asymm...

In a desperate cry for unity, former leaders of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) P J Patterson and Dr Peter Phillips yesterday issued a strong charge to the beleaguered political organisation to mend its internal fractures ...

In his message marking National Heroes' Day, which is celebrated today, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has paid tribute to the front line workers, several of whom have died from COVID-19, describing their service as akin to the sacrifice...

Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP), the advocacy group for Jamaica's seniors, has donated $500,000 to Food For the Poor (FFP) to assist in the preparation of food and personal care packages for elderly shut-ins. The packages...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has said the resource and staffing challenges, which have contributed to the late production of transcripts in the high courts and the parish courts much to the angst of the Court of Appeal, are being remedied....

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) - A Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth yesterday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit.Yulia Peresild, 37, and Klim Shipenko,...

Today is the 291st day of 2021. There are 74 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1995: The United States announces it will grant Fidel Castro a visa, permitting the Cuban president to address the United Nations.OTHER EVENTS1648: Bost...

LLUIDAS VALE, St Catherine - A pall of gloom blanketed a section of this rural community on Thursday when residents, for the first time in recent memory, witnessed a single funeral being held for two relatives from the same household in...

PARIS, France (AFP) - Facebook yesterday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the "metaverse", a virtual reality (VR) version of the Internet that the tech giant sees as the future.Facebook CEO Mark Zucke...

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) - The Golden Globes will go ahead despite NBC 's decision not to broadcast the Hollywood award ceremony over concerns about its record on diversity and transparency, organisers said on the weekend.The H...

MADRID, Spain (AFP) - Spain's leftist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez vowed yesterday to "abolish" prostitution in the country, saying it "enslaves" women.Speaking at the end of a three-day congress of his Socialist party, Sanchez highligh...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) - Haiti's already fragile Government faces a serious new crisis after one of the island's increasingly brazen criminal gangs kidnapped a large US missionary group.There has been little official reaction in Ha...

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) - France's ambassador to Belarus has left the country after the authorities in Minsk demanded he leave by today, the embassy said.The spokeswoman who made the announcement did not say why the Belarusian authorities ...

JAMAICAN-BORN Ephraim Martin, chair of the Chicago-based Black Heroes Matter (BHM) Coalition and president of Martin's International, has chalked up another victory for black Haitian founder of the Illinois city, Jean Baptiste Pointe Du...