THE country should know by this weekend the initial number of doses of COVID-19 vaccines it will be receiving through the COVAX facility, and a specific delivery timeline for the first two quarters of this year. ...

Transparency International says its just released Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2020 “paints a grim picture of the state of corruption worldwide” as the problem “is more pervasive in countries least equipped...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has warned residents of this south-central parish that they must “change course” to avoid a worsening novel coronavirus spike which h...

WITH the economy expected to decline between 12 and 14 per cent this fiscal year, Opposition spokesman on finance, Julian Robinson is urging the Andrew Holness-led Administration to focus on areas of intervention such as agricultu...

CONCERNS are emerging that some Jamaicans could end up paying for COVID-19 vaccines as the country draws closer to accessing the first batch of shots for specified categories of people.The private sector has indicated that it want...

National Integrity Action (NIA) Principal Director Professor Trevor Munroe is dismissing as idiotic and pathetic comments in the public sphere intimating that he and the watchdog group he heads is responsible for Jamaica continua...

Police directing traffic from Harbour Street on to Blake Street to William and West streets in Port Antonio, Portland yesterday after a sewerage line, blocked by grease build up, resulted in a sewage overflow. Portland's Medical O...

Today is the 29th day of 2021. There are 336 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1845: Edgar Allan Poe's famous narrative poem The Raven (“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...”) is first ...

THE National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) says in another two months a final determination could be ready on whether Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners II (NJBP II) gets an environmental permit to mine in sections of weste...

Dolla Financial Services Limited, one of Jamaica's leading microfinance instit utions, has welcomed the new Microcredit Act approved by the Senate last Friday.The Microcredit Act, 2021 aims to license and regulate microcredit ins...

Even in the midst of a dark cloud there can still be silver linings. This has been the reality for 22-year-old Kadian Newman from Parottee, St Elizabeth.During a time when companies are downsizing and jobs are being lost, Newman h...

FOR everyone in the travel industry, Gordon “Butch” Stewart's name is synonymous with success and the transformation of tourism in the Caribbean.By the time many began their careers in travel the legendary Sandals bran...

Food For the Poor (FFP), through its 'Basket of Care' programme, delivered 3,200 food and health care packages distributed to residents across the island under the second phase of the initiative during the period November to Decem...

THE Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation in St Ann, which caters to teenage mothers, recently received a big boost when the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) donated $1.1 million to enhance the learning experience of its cli...

Jamaica College (JC) has launched its science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) project which seeks to upgrade the school's information communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and teaching methods. ...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) — Health Minister St Clair “Jimmy” Prince has sought to assure the nation that the Government did not “drop the ball” concerning its handling of the novel coronavirus pande...

MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The novel coronavirus crisis cost the global tourism sector US$1.3 trillion in lost revenue in 2020 as the number of people travelling plunged, the United Nations (UN) said yesterday, calling it “...

Louisiana, United States (AP) —The board of a Louisiana cemetery that denied burial to a black sheriff's deputy held an emergency meeting yesterday to remove a whites-only provision from its sales contracts. ...

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — A new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa has been found in the United States for the first time, with two cases diagnosed in South Carolina, state health officials said yesterday. ...

Dantay Brooks the son of dancehall artiste David “Mavado” Brooks and his co-accused Andre Hinds were yesterday found guilty of the 2018 murder of Lorenzo “Israel” Thomas in Cassava Piece, St Andrew.The two...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says payments under another round of the Government's COVID-19 Allocation of Resources for Employees (CARE) Programme will continue this year.

Romario Brown, the make-up and graphic artist currently serving time for the murder of designer Dexter Pottinger, yesterday pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter for the killing of 20-year-old Alexia Beepat in 2016....

A convicted lottery scammer, who told the court he was afraid to name the mastermind because that would endanger his life and that of his family, has been given 10 years to pay the $6 million that he was fined on conviction.The sc...

THE Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officer embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal broken by the Sunday Observer on January 17 has resigned.Chief of Defence Staff Lieutenant General Rocky Meade yesterday disclosed that the investiga...

Head of National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) Peter Knight fumbled before the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) yesterday, as he faced questions about the basis on which Bengal Development Limited...