Police investigators and prosecutors are giving themselves a three-month period to gather additional evidence in the Khanice Jackson murder case before the matter can proceed in the Home Circuit Court, Kingston.Murder accused in the cas...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police here are reporting that of the seven categories of serious crimes, robbery is up by 21 per cent in this south-central parish with migrant criminals carrying out daylight robberies due to the present curfe...

As Jamaicans wait with bated breath to see if the Government will extend the weekend lockdowns, which have been in place for the past three weeks, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has signalled that this will only be a last option.Instead...

Former Minister of National Security KD Knight has asserted that more women will die in Jamaica if there isn't widespread behavioural change soon, especially among young men. He said at present, there is a popular belief that has been ...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Up to a few weeks ago, Natesha Waite, who was found dead with her throat slashed at her home in Burnt Savannah last Tuesday morning, had plans to travel to the United States to care for a sick relative.As it...

BUFF BAY, Portland - Some of the 21 people who were left homeless by a fire in this town on Jamaica's north-eastern coast on March 21, 2021 are appealing for help to rebuild."I am asking for assistance from anyone. None of us have anywh...

Food For The Poor (FFP) yesterday hailed Joseph "Joe" Mahfood as an advocate for the less fortunate and said it was blessed to have benefited from his years of exemplary service.Mahfood, who with his brothers Robin, Ferdie, and Sam fou...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has set an ambitious target of administering 50,000 COVID-19 vaccinations over the next four days to teachers, people aged 60 and older, and those in the specified categories who missed their first op...

PROPOSED limitations on interaction between public bodies/personnel and tobacco products companies raised temperatures at yesterday's meeting of a joint select committee reviewing smoking regulations.The limitations included in Article ...

Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang says there is a need for changes in the way young men are socialised in Jamaica.According to the minister, many young Jamaican men believe that power only comes through the barrel of a gun: ...

While investigations try to determine whether the badly decomposing remains of a female discovered in a shallow grave in Sandy Bay, Clarendon, yesterday are those of 44-year-old teacher Natalie Dawkins, Deputy Commissioner of Police Fi...

Having received an additional 75,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines yesterday, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton suggested that Jamaicans should be proud of the progress of the inoculation programme as some c...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves issued an immediate evacuation order as the situation at La Soufriere volcano deteriorated further yesterday afternoon, and announced that several cruise ships would be arr...

MAYOR of Mandeville and councillor for the Royal Flat Division Donovan Mitchell yesterday scolded Southern Parks and Markets (SPM) for what he termed inadequate collection of garbage in Manchester.SPM is responsible for solid waste mana...

REV Dr Horace Russell who died on Easter Monday will be remembered for his intellectual prowess and significant contribution to theology across the Caribbean, according to his former Baptist colleagues.Elisabeth Russell-McKenzie said he...

IT'S hard to tell since they weren't directly compared in studies. But experts say the vaccines are alike on what matters most: preventing hospitalisations and deaths."Luckily, all these vaccines look like they're protecting us from sev...

Storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Luhn is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the opening of the virtual staging of KingstOOn 2021 to be held from April 21-25.Luhn story credits include the Toy Story films, Monsters Inc, Finding Ne...

PARIS, France (AFP) - A one-million-euro (US$1.2 million) drug haul announced by the Paris police turned out to be nothing more sinister than some strawberry sweets.The bags of suspected MDMA and ecstasy turned up after a "fruitful inve...

THIRTY-TWO data collectors employed by the Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal and Climate Change in Hanover say they have not been paid for two months.At least two of the contracted workers said they have been getting the "run around" f...

FAMILIES of more than 200 primary school students in Clarendon and St Catherine, who are part of Government's Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), were yesterday presented with care packages, courtesy of New For...

LONDON, England (AP) - The UK's COVID-19 vaccination programme is beginning to break the link between infection and serious illness or death, according to the latest results from an ongoing study of the pandemic in England.Researchers a...

THE Ministry of Health & Wellness yesterday began scheduling vaccination appointments for people age 60 years and older, including staff members from the Department of Correctional Services, Jamaica Fire Brigade, Passport, Immigrati...

Today is the 99th day of 2021. There are 266 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT837: Halley's Comet makes its closest known passage to Earth: 5 million kilometres (3 million miles).OTHER EVENTS641: An army commanded by Amr Ibn al-As...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - If the prevailing economic situation continues, Government may be unable to pay salaries and benefits, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves said on Wednesday."I say this with all honesty, the way things are go...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has told teachers ahead of Monday's reopening of schools that they should have a Government-approved COVID-19 vaccine or have been tested for the virus, otherwise they woul...

MINNESOTA, United States (AP) - The face mask that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been required to wear during his trial in George Floyd's death has hidden his reaction to testimony, including any sympathy or remors...

PARIS, France (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron was yesterday scheduled to abolish the top university he attended along with four of the last six presidents in a move portrayed as a blow against elitism and in favour of greater d...

VIRGINIA, United States (AP) - Virginia became the first Southern state to legalise marijuana Wednesday, as lawmakers voted to approve Governor Ralph Northam's proposed changes to a Bill that will allow adults to possess and cultivate s...

Children's Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison is calling for specific provisions to be included in the National Identification Registration Act (NIRA) to deal with the enrolment of minors in conflict with the law, into the proposed nation...

THE 150th synod of the Anglican Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands yesterday failed to elect a new bishop for the region of Kingston when it hosted its elective assembly.The sole nominee on day one of the synod, Canon Garth A Mino...

MORE females have been utilising helplines set up by the Ministry of Health and Wellness as a means to promote mental health amid the unprecedented and devastating novel coronavirus pandemic.To commemorate World Health Day yesterday, un...

SCORES of farmers in Rock Hall, St Andrew, are the first group to benefit from the distribution of more than 10,000 passion fruit seedlings under a flood relief project. The project, implemented by the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS)...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has expressed dismay at what he described as an "adjournment culture" in the Supreme Court.Addressing a ceremony where eight judges were appointed to act in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court at King's ...

JAMAICA'S Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn was appalled yesterday as she lamented that sexual offences accounted for the second highest number of cases currently before the Home Circuit Court, just behind murder which acc...

JUSTICE Minister Delroy Chuck says the National Child Diversion Programme can play a key role in reducing youth reoffending in Jamaica.Child diversion involves measures to deal with child offenders, without resorting to formal judicial ...

As part of efforts to bolster the health and safety measures brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, members of the graduating class of 1989 have donated $600,000 to their alma mater, Oberlin High School, to help with sanitation project...

RESIDENTS of Sandy Ground in St Catherine say a breakaway on a section of the community's main road is now being used as a hideout for criminals. The road, said the residents, has been damaged for 11 years.Pointing to an incident on Sat...

This is the day 98th of 2021. There are 267 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1946: The League of Nations assembles in Geneva for the last time. OTHER EVENTS1907: Britain and France sign a convention confirming independence of Sia...

WARDS at the Montego Bay Community Home for Girls, often referred to as Melody House, were in high spirits after they each received a tablet to enable them to access virtual learning platforms.One beneficiary, who attends the Cambridge ...

DIRECTOR of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa Etienne has urged the region to mobilise the production of COVID-19 vaccines as anxieties increase over vaccine nationalism, which is being blamed for a shortage of dose...

THE Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC) says churches which are members of its council are willing to have their grounds used by the Ministry of Health and Wellness as vaccination centres if needs be.This, the JCC said, would aid the Gove...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) - Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza claimed yesterday that without economic sanctions against the Government of President Nicolas Maduro, the country would already have purchased all 30 million coronavi...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) ­­- At least three people have died and three others missing following the torrential rains that have caused widespread damage and flooding over the long Easter weekend, the authorities here have confirmed....

MINNESOTA, United States (AP) - Officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd's neck - and was bearing down with most of his weight - the entire 9 1/2 minutes the black man lay face down with his hands cuffed behind his back, a use...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, April 8, 2021: Daring, enterprising and generous, your desire for intellectual stimulation will be fulfilled. This year, you travel more for business and pleasure, satisfying restless urges. Your job or volu...

More than 60 per cent of teachers are now indicating a willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine, which will be made available to educators this month.Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) President Jasford Gabriel noted that when the unio...

Although the Government favours the prohibition of corporal punishment for children, two of its main oversight agencies are reporting that it has remained the preferred method of punishment within households.At the same time, the agenci...

THE Private Sector Vaccine Initiative (PSVI) has received a donation of supplies valued at more than $2 million from the Sandals Foundation, as it ramps up the support of the Ministry of Health and Wellness' national vaccination plan.Th...

PATIENTS at the Bellevue Hospital in Kingston are to benefit from an initiative by the institution to further improve their mental well-being through a reading project on every ward."You know how hospitals are and you have some patients...

MINISTER of Justice Delroy Chuck has assured that the Office of the Public Defender has the necessary identity protection for people operating under the Justice Protection Programme (JPP), which will be retained under the National Ident...