FREEPORT, St James — The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) is urging the Government to reconsider its decision to push back, until next year, the start of the planned construction of the US$220-million Mon...

DISCUSSIONS with the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) and its parent ministry on the impact of recently approved mining leases in the Dry Harbour Mountains, St Ann, stalled at yesterday's meeting of the Public Admin...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has promised that a new board of directors will be named shortly, to oversee the development of the newly formed HEART/National Service Training Agency (NSTA) Trust.Responding to questions raised by t...

SIR Hilary Beckles, vice-chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI), and Dr Anthony Fauci, renowned director of the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, are this year's recipients of the ...

NEW JERSEY, United States (CMC) — A Jamaican man faces the possibility of up to 40 years in prison in the United States and a massive fine after being charged with smuggling a kilogramme of cocaine in coffee bags and picture...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — President Donald Trump was impeached by the US House for a historic second time yesterday, charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol i...

AUDITOR General Pamela Monroe Ellis says her department completed 107 of 162 constitutionally commissioned audits of ministries, agencies and departments (MDAs) up to November 2020, but that even with the ground covered those inve...

ORANGE BAY, Hanover — Director of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information's Region Four, Dr Michelle Pinnock, says schools that are participating in the face-to-face resumption of classes are exempted from an earlie...

MANAGING director of the HEART/National Service Training Agency (NSTA) Trust Dr Janet Dyer has given assurances that the agency has moved to fix the loopholes which led to millions of dollars being disbursed for the continuation o...

Today is the 14th day of 2021. There are 351 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1907: An earthquake in Jamaica destroys Kingston, takes 1,000 lives and leaves 25,000 homeless. It causes fires across the capital and triggers a ...

HOMELESS and unemployed for the past 15 years, Derrick Morgan was considering suicide to escape life's hardships late last year before he was talked out of it by a concerned friend.But the 50-year-old, who lives in an old building...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester— Residents and other stakeholders in this south-central town are eagerly awaiting an improved water supply, following reports that a new phase of the Greater Mandeville Water Supply Improvement Project...

ROME (AP) — The vaunted Mediterranean diet and the French “bon gout” are getting some competition: The European Union's food safety agency says worms are safe to eat.The Parma-based agency published a scientific ...

The Jamaica-German Automotive School (JAGAS) has launched a programme to get persons informally trained in the automotive industry but who are not certified up to speed.JAGAS has arranged a recruitment and assessment and is urging...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) —The Donald Trump Administration's decision to put Cuba back on a list of countries considered state sponsors of terrorism has drawn the ire of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), which denounced the ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, January 14, 2021: Courageous, indomitable and intense, you move mountains. This year, you get a project off the ground and win fame for it. More money soon follows. If single, your personal life can be...

Two Jamaican icons — Gordon “Butch” Stewart and Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, who died recently — are to be posthumously honoured with the Key to the City of Kingston, deputy mayor, Councillor Wins...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — A high-level multi-agency investigation, involving international counterparts, is currently underway following Monday's recovery of 19 illegal firearms and a large number of assorted ammunition during...

Ed Bartlett yesterday named a special task force to spearhead efforts to boost Jamaica's COVID-19 testing capacity in light of the increasing demand for such tests, fuelled by new travel requirements in key tourism source markets....

SHORTLY after watering the flowers he treasured dearly and laundering some clothes, Kemar Cover walked with a girlfriend to a bus stop near his Myrrhvilla Road home yesterday afternoon.After she left, he went to a cook shop, purch...

Women living on Fourth Street in Trench Town, Kingston, who allege that they have been marked for death by gunmen engaged in a gang feud running for more than a year, say they are not only fearful about the threats to their lives...

IN addition to efforts to obtain vaccines under the COVAX facility, the Jamaican Government yesterday announced that it will be conducting bilateral meetings with several countries to include India, China and Cuba as it seeks out ...

CARRERAS Ltd, a major player in the local tobacco industry, says it will be affected when new proposed legislation eventually gets signed into law and as such is eager to contribute to the process of the Bill's development as the ...

Today is the 13th day of 2020. There are 352 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1993: A 5.4 magnitude earthquake shakes Kingston, Jamaica, which caused significant damage to many buildings and infrastructure across the city. ...

THE Chinese technology giant Huawei is preparing to broaden its footprint locally despite pressure on the Jamaican Government from the United States to reduce the influence of the company in the country's telecommunications infras...