OPPOSITION spokesperson on national security, Senator Peter Bunting, is not backing down in his call for an external oversight committee to investigate the claims of sexual misconduct at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) that have c...

SINCE Brown's Town, St Ann resident Devon Hall introduced Colloidal Silver to Jamaica over nine years ago, Jamaicans have been swearing by its effectiveness in curing a litany of ailments.

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Tasheca Graham is forever grateful for the swift response of two police constables who came to her rescue on the night of January 9, as she was on the brink of delivering her son while stranded in a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden took the oath of office as the 46th president, he became not only the oldest newly inaugurated US chief executive in history but also the oldest sitting president ever.Biden was born November...

RETIRED Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Colonel Allan Douglas says the solution to crime remains the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), but the entity has no credibility.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century, lived a colourful life up t...

Military expert and retired Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Colonel Allan Douglas has expressed disappointment over claims of misconduct by an army officer accused of sexual harassment of his junior. Colonel Douglas told the Jamaica O...

The Victoria Mutual (VM) Foundation in partnership with the Group ICT donated 20 all-in-one computers to Jamaica College at the school last Thursday, under its 'Refurbished for Change' initiative. Here Naketa West, manager, VM Fou...

Each of us only gets one body in this life, so we need to value it and treat it well. With each passing day comes an opportunity to be good to our bodies. People tend to value and work hard to maintain material things. There shou...

Commish Anderson, it's crime, not headlines why we suffer soIt appears that Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson now seems to think that the media are responsible in some way for creating some of the crimes being comm...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change Pearnel Charles Jr has urged the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) to carry out its mandate with creativity and urgency.

The Microcredit Act, 2021, that aims to license and regulate microcredit institutions that provide financing to individuals and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), was approved in the Senate on Friday. ...

Jamaica yesterday welcomed the entry into force of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.The treaty, which came into effect on Friday, January 22, is the first legally binding international agreement to c...

THE Sean Paul Foundation (SPF), in partnership with Flow Foundation, distributed 100 tablets to 14 schools across the island.The handovers began on Tuesday, January 12 at Drews Avenue Primary and Infant in Kingston and closed out ...

Late councillor in the then St James Parish Council Glover Allen was remembered, among other things, as an “amazing conceptualiser”, who “blazed many trails” by daughter Nicole during the service of thanks...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland — Director of the Meteorological Service of Jamaica, Evan Thompson, has disclosed that the agency is currently in possession of only half of the 200 weather stations being targeted. ...

Travellers boarding international flights from Jamaica to the US, Canada, and the UK, must now show proof of a negative COVID-19 test in order to enter. Different countries have different requirements on what type of testing is p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inside the White House, President Joe Biden presided over a focused launch of his Administration, using his first days in office to break sharply with his predecessor while signing executive orders meant as...

To thine own self be true,And it must followAs the night the day,Thou canst not thenBe false to any man.— William Shakespeare

THE University of the West Indies, Mona, is urging employers and educational institutions to be on high alert for the selling of fake undergraduate and postgraduate degrees which appear to be issued by the institution. The matter ...

A woman is among three people held Thursday night following the shooting death of a man in the community of Bluntas near Treasure Beach in St Elizabeth.The deceased man has been identified as 33-year-old Andrian Lewis, a construct...

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) – A plethora of Caribbean and other immigration advocates have welcomed new United States President Joe Biden's rescission of some of his predecessor's immigration policies by unveiling the US C...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to send the article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday, launching the start of the former president's trial on a charge of incite...

THE Government will begin the roll-out of its shared human resource (HR) services next month.Sixteen individuals from various entities across the public sector, who will be engaged in this pilot phase, have been trained and instal...

An orgy of violence in St James since the start of this year has left 18 people dead and eight others nursing gunshot wounds while pushing the country's murder total to 13 per cent above the same period last year.Figures obtained...