LOTTERY scammers who live high on the hog, some as young as 16 and 17 years of age, are being urged by Jamaica's 2021 Rhodes scholar Fitzroy Wickham to rethink their destiny before the inevitable violent end often suffered by thos...

THE island's accreditation agency has issued a plea to facilities involved in 'back-door' COVID-19 testing to come forward to seek authorisation to administer tests for the virus.

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden yesterday tightened mask-wearing rules and ordered quarantine for people flying into the United States, as he got to work on tackling the novel coronavirus pandemic o...

THE question of whether a prison term should also be an option in addition to the proposed fine of $3 million for individuals found guilty of leaking or misusing protected information under the National Identification System (NIDS...

COMMISSIONER of Corrections Lieutenant Colonel Gary Rowe says the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is short of 283 warders to serve the island's prisons.Rowe said that an investment in training a second cohort of trainees...

The ATL Group yesterday announced the appointment of Adam Stewart to the position of executive chairman, three days after his elevation to a similar post at Sandals Resorts International.

Recycling Partners of Jamaica (RPJ) is hoping the popularity of dancehall deejay Agent Sasco (real name Jeffrey Campbell) will help get its message to a much wider audience over the next 12 months. The company announced on Monday...

A fireman walks on Fun City beach in Port Henderson, Portmore, as he prepares to put out a fire that was started by the burning of old tyres on the beach yesterday.(Photo: Naphtali Junior) 

Today is the 22nd day of 2021. There are 343 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1973: In its Roe vs Wade decision, the US Supreme Court legalises abortions. OTHER EVENTS1498: During his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere,...

Leading political figures in Portmore, St Catherine, have reportedly applauded the move by the National Water Commission (NWC) to implement the Portmore Non-Revenue Water (NRW) Reduction Programme in the municipality.Late last yea...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) — The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa F Etienne has urged the region of the Americas, including the Caribbean, to immediately intensify public health int...

The Ministry of Health's National COVID-19 Mental Health Response Programme dubbed 'Reach Out' saw its first batch of trained 'rangers' graduating on Wednesday.The programme was developed last year in response to the emergent need...

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has received technological support from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), valued at just over $1.9 million, to be distributed across the island's four juvenile correctional ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Custos of St James, Bishop Conrad Pitkin, says he and his team at the Faith Temple Assembly of God, in the parish, will be offering counselling sessions to individuals feeling overwhelmed or dishearte...

Mayor of Kingston Delroy Williams is downplaying the expenditure discrepancies at the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) which were flagged in a 2020 report from the Auditor General's Department (AGD) recently t...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says that it is imperative that the proposed new Microcredit Bill be passed by the end of January.

Just shy of one year after Parliament affirmed regulations paving the way for the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) to become an independent body, Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has finally an...

BERLIN, Germany (AP) — World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunned over th...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Twin suicide bombings ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital yesterday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens, officials said in what was the first massive bombing in years, harkening...

Geneva, Switzerland (AFP) — The United States said yesterday it would resume its funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) as President Joe Biden shifts towards greater international cooperation in the fight against th...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, January 22, 2021: Charged, expressive and exciting, you exude a magnetism that is hard to resist. Controlling your impulsiveness allows you to finish a long-term project that is extremely successful this...

The country's unemployment rate increased by 3.5 percentage points between October 2019 and October 2020 to leave 10.7 per cent of Jamaica's labour force unemployed.The number were released yesterday by the Statistical Institute o...

After three hours in front of Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) yesterday, officials of the Ministry of Local Government provided little clarity on the policies and monitoring systems in place...

Relatives of Kamala Harris in Brown's Town, St Ann, reacted with humble elation yesterday as she was inaugurated as the first woman vice-president of the United States of America.“We enjoyed watching the inauguration here at...

Chairman of the Police Federation Corporal Rohan James is eyeing an end to the long-running crisis where lawyers representing police officers charged with offences for actions taken in the line of duty withdrawing their services f...