Today Is The 335Th Day Of 2021. There Are 30 Days Left In The Year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1955: Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, defies the law by refusing to give up her seat to a white man aboard a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. She is arres...

JAMAICA AIDS Support for Life (JASL) is urging lawmakers to quickly pass the occupational safety and health law which will force companies to implement policy to guide workplace treatment of people living with HIV/AIDS.According to JASL...

The Government has given the nod for importation and use of COVID-19 self-testing kits approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton mad...

WITH the aim of providing holistic care, Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) has been extending psychological help to the children of its clients as a way of enhancing their mental health.Medical director at JASL, Dr Jennifer Brown Tom...

The lead police investigator in the case against the 33 individuals accused of crimes committed by the St Catherine-based Klansman gang yesterday positively identified another 13 against whom he had laid charges and further revealed tha...

Corporal Damion Auld was yesterday freed in the Home Circuit Court of a wounding charge stemming from a 2015 shooting incident. The allegations were that the complainant was shot in the back by Corporal Auld, who was represented by atto...

LONDON (AP) - Consumer prices across the 19 countries that use the euro currency are rising at a record rate as a result of a huge spike in energy costs this year, official figures showed Tuesday.Eurostat, the European Union's statistic...

SOME pastors and herbalists are negatively impacting Jamaica's ability to win the fight against HIV/AIDS by encouraging their followers and patients not to take prescribed medication.Non-governmental organisation Jamaica AIDS Support fo...

THE Government has now given all primary schools the go-ahead to return to face-to-face learning, as well as all secondary schools which have a 65 per cent or higher vaccination rate among students.Education Minister Fayval Williams mad...

Senior Superintendent of Police James Forbes ended 41 years with the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) yesterday - five days after celebrating his 60th birthday - putting behind him "a bitter period of anguish for me and my family".Forbe...

THE Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday expressed sadness at the passing of human rights attorney Nancy Anderson"Ms Anderson was an American attorney who practised in Jamaica for many years. She served in several roles during her...

Dear Mr Brown,My study permit application was already submitted, but I worry about it not being processed in time, based on delays at the Canadian High Commission. I am currently enrolled in my programme online. Would it affect my eligi...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) says the potential for floods and cascading hazards should be moderate to high in the Caribbean during the three-month period - December 2021 to F...

CLOSE to 600 Jamaicans have now been vaccinated during two immunisation drives organised by the JN Foundation.The philanthropic arm of Jamaica National Group, the country's third-largest financial conglomerate, launched its campaign on ...

FROM helping people who tested positive for HIV/AIDS to die with dignity, Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) has moved to assisting people with the virus live a long and fruitful life."The organisation has grown from a very small NGO;...

RESIDENTS from Portmore, St Catherine, are set to benefit from a dental and wellness fair this weekend.The dental and wellness fair scheduled to be held on two Saturdays, December 4 and 11, on the grounds of the St Francis Xavier Cathol...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Illiterate until he learned to read from the Bible at age 16, Jervis Johnson is now almost one year into his job as an electrical technician. His next goal - enrolling in college in 2022.The 22-year-old is still a...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - Some 2.9 billion people - 37 per cent of the world's population - have still never used the Internet, the United Nations said yesterday, despite the novel coronavirus pandemic driving people online.The UN's I...

CALIFORNIA, United States (AP) - With less than four weeks to go until Christmas, Kristyn Begari has been rushing to find enough doll styling heads to give to kids in need.But, the purchasing coordinator for the California-based non-pro...

UNAIDS yesterday warned that, if the transformative measures needed to end AIDS are not taken, the world will also stay trapped in the novel coronavirus crisis and remain dangerously unprepared for the pandemics to come."This is an urge...

PARIS, France (AFP) -COVID-19 vaccines began to show promise just months after the novel coronavirus started spreading across the globe. So why have decades of HIV/AIDS research yielded so little progress on a jab to prevent a disease t...

BRUSSELS, Belium (AP) - New findings about the coronavirus' Omicron variant made it clear yesterday that the emerging threat slipped into countries before their defences were up, as two distant nations announced their first cases and a ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - More than $800,000 raised during the annual St Ann/St Mary breast cancer awareness pink run will be used to save lives. The cancer society will use the funds to pay for mammograms, Pap smears and prostrate exams for ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AFP) - The Caribbean island nation of Barbados last night severed centuries-old ties to the British monarchy, ditching The Queen as head of state and declaring itself the world's newest republic.The Royal Standard ...

SPECIAL projects manager at the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Andrine Davidson was one three people chosen as Civil Servant of the Year for 2021/2022.She copped the award after topping the field of entrants in the category of manage...

BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - In 2018 Jayon Dunbar was ecstatic after he received an acceptance letter from The University of the West Indies to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Economics. It would make him the first person from his rural commu...

IT was Caton Daley's consistent drive and determination to stay disciplined and not squander his mother's money that caused him to secure 10 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects. The 17-year-old Wolmer's Boys' Schoo...

The Klansman gang trial yesterday heard that on the Sunday when Stephanie Christie, the sole female among the 33 accused, was arrested on the premises of her church in Yallahs, St Thomas, she pleaded with the arresting officer to allow...

THE Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) said it lost just over $2 million in revenue from yesterday's strike by drivers which impacted almost all of its morning bus schedule. The strike, which created a financial boom for taxi and priv...

Drama accompanied the arrest of accused Fabian Johnson, otherwise called Crocs - one of the 33 alleged members of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang now on trial - on Beeston Street in West Kingston in June 2019, the lead investigator...

THE Ministry of Health and Wellness says unless people are travelling before mid-December there is no need to rush to update their vaccination cards, as it will start rolling out digital vaccination certificates in another two weeks.Goi...

Today is the 334th day of 2021. There are 31 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2000: South and North Korean relatives, separated for half a century, are reunited in the North Korean capital Pyongyang. OTHER EVENTS1652: Dutch defea...

PORUS, Manchester - A Manchester councillor has suggested that engineers consult with residents of Redberry and surrounding areas who have complained that construction of the May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000 will cause their...

THE Global Fund has said that the accuracy of existing molecular and rapid tests is uncompromised by COVID-19 variant Omicron and is insisting that diagnostic testing to detect the new variant is critical to tracking its spread and putt...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Taking an act-now-ask-questions-later approach, countries around the world slammed their doors shut again to try to keep the new Omicron variant at bay yesterday as more cases of the mutant coronavirus emerged a...

Jamaica continues to shine brightly among the countries of the world and all because of the talent, skill, prowess, and reputation of many Jamaicans who have impacted and inspired people globally.Dr Dawkins Brown is one such person. He ...

A local medical school official has charged that 85 per cent of Jamaica's trained nurses migrate after completing their training and the situation has been made worse by the novel coronavirus pandemic.Executive dean at Caribbean School ...

Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Prime Minister Andrew Holness is in no rush to head to the polls despite his confidence that his party would sweep the next local government elections.The election ought to be held no later than...

Under pressure over questions surrounding a controversial contract at the Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP), Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) chairman and Minister of Transport and Mining Robert Montague yesterday downplayed the significanc...

Former prime minister and once leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Bruce Golding, has warned party supporters about the danger of them being involved in any corrupt activities.In a thought-provoking address to the JLP's 78th annua...

Two women grab a ride on a bike taxi near the Clarendon/Manchester border last week.(Photo: Karl Mclarty)

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Despite 4,328 cases of serious crimes reported since the start of this year, Minister of National Security Horace Chang is confident that the Andrew Holness-led Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Administration is compet...

Today is the 333rd day of 2021. There are 32 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1961: Enos the chimp is launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbits Earth twice before returning.OTHER EVENTS1580: ...

SUNDAY afternoons would usually see 14-year-old Omar McIntosh in his backyard doing chores but thanks to procrastination and his mother letting him off the hook, he cheated death.At approximately 12:10 yesterday afternoon the driver of ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the health sector must shift its focus to include other critical areas which have been cast in the shadows due to the attention being given to the country's COVID-19 re...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - On a rainy night in Hong Kong in 1997, Prince Charles read a message from his mother Queen Elizabeth II, as Britain handed back sovereignty of the territory to China after more than 150 years of UK rule.To...

BRAZZAVILLE, Congo (AFP) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Africa yesterday urged countries to follow the science rather than imposing flight bans in a bid to contain the new Omicron novel coronavirus variant."With th...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AFP) - A South African doctor who raised the alarm over Omicron said yesterday dozens of her patients suspected of having the new variant had only shown mild symptoms and recovered fully without hospitalisation.A...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - For decades students and teachers of the Fullerswood Primary and Infant School, about 30 minutes drive south-west of here, had to contend with stray cattle and other animals invading the open corridors of the ...

VENDORS in the Spalding and May Pen markets in Clarendon are pleading with the Clarendon Municipal Corporation (CMC) to address their selling space, the improper drainage system that causes major flooding in the facilities and results i...