POLICE Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson has attempted to calm the jitters of members of the Jamaica Diaspora who say they fear returning to the island because of the gruesome murders reported here, insisting that media p...

THE Denham Town police have arrested and charged 24-year-old Oliver Reid, otherwise called “KJ”, of Fifth Street, Kingston 12 for the murder of 59-year-old Cynthia Robinson and the injuring of another man in Trench Tow...

PROGRAMME director for the National Identification System (NIDS) Warren Vernon says that biometric data for the national identification database will be encrypted to prevent unauthorised access.“Your fingerprint and facial i...

THE public is invited to make comments and provide recommendations on the Beach Access and Management Policy for Jamaica, which is now at the draft stage of development.This call comes from Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Envi...

AN elite quick response motorbike team, similar to the one operating in Montego Bay, St James, which in helping to swiftly nab criminals, is soon to hit the streets of the Corporate Area.

MINISTER of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Kamina Johnson Smith yesterday told the Senate that the Government had nothing to do with the recent destruction at sea of the Jamaican-registered vessel Lady Lawla.The vessel ...

THE Government raked in almost $700 million through the sale or lease of State-owned lands during the 2019-2020 fiscal year.In its annual divestment report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, the Commissioner of Lands (COL), an agenc...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — The global death toll from COVID-19 topped two million yesterday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine roll-out so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope of vanquishing th...

ENROLMENTS under the National Identification System (NIDS) are being targeted for commencement within eight months.NIDS Programme Director Warren Vernon indicated that “if we receive the legal framework by May, we will be in...

THE Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) has been identified as the body which will be responsible for dealing with complaints against microcredit institutions, under a new Microcredit Bill, tabled in the House of Representatives on ...

HUNDREDS of people have, since March 2015, been empowered through the Welfare, Health, Education, Empowerment and Local Community (WHEEL) Fund, established by the Central Jamaica Conference (CJC) of Seventh-day Adventists. ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Prime Minister Mia Mottley told the nation Thursday that she was among eight people here who recently received COVID-19 vaccines, and reported that in a few weeks more front line workers and vuln...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) – Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa F Etienne said on Thursday that the appearance of new variants of the COVID-19 virus in several countries of the Americ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) — The deployment of COVID-19 vaccines in the Caribbean and other countries across the Americas, under the World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) facility, i...

ARIZONA, United States (AP) — The pro-Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol last week aimed to “capture and assassinate elected officials”, federal prosecutors said in court documents. The revelation came in a mo...

THE National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC) has partnered with The University of the West Indies Rotaract Club to plant more than 400 trees as part of the prime minister's Three Million Trees Initiative. The trees...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — The Caribbean Community (Caricom) has been offered access to approved COVID-19 vaccines from a shipment recently secured by the African Union.Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced Thursda...

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) – A global coronavirus vaccine roll-out suffered a major blow yesterday as Pfizer said it would delay shipments of the jabs in the next three to four weeks due to works at its key plant in Belgium.Pfize...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Saturday, January 16, 2021: Fulfilling, structured and driven, you accomplish — frankly — miracles. Whatever the project, it becomes part of you, and this year is no exception. In order not to get st...

GOVERNMENT and Opposition members of the special select committee which is considering a proposal for Portmore to become the country's 15th parish, yesterday haggled over whether all the municipality's stakeholder groups should be...

Gurney Beckford, the man who for decades was the face of Dunlop Corbin Communications (DCC) — one of Jamaica's top advertising agencies — passed away yesterday after ailing for some time. He was 83.Beckford, who in 20...

FOUR days after a four-year-old girl was fatally shot during a family feud in Freeman's Hall, Trelawny, news has emerged of another child now hospitalised after being injured during a family dispute in Malcolm Heights, Hanover.The...

THE Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is seeking to have Parliament make amendments to the Law Reform (Zones of Special Operations) (Special Security and Community Development Measures) or the ZOSO Act to create new criminal offenc...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Mayor of Mandeville and chairman of the Manchester Municipal Corporation Donovan Mitchell alleged yesterday that the police have been providing security at nightclubs which should be closed under the...

Most of Jamaica's major hotels are now putting measures in place to have on-property COVID-19 tests for visitors who will require negative results for re-entry to their home countries.