THE joint select committee (JSC) of Parliament reviewing the Cybercrimes Act, 2015, has extended the deadline for submissions by two weeks due a slow response.Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Daryl Vaz informed the committee a...

SUPREME Court Judge Justice Leighton Pusey will today hear arguments from prosecutors why he should entertain a nolle prosequi being entered by the director of public prosecutions to discontinue criminal proceedings against the seven in...

Sandals Foundation will today continue its quest to plant 10,000 trees by June 2022, intensifying its Caribbean conservation efforts as the world observes Earth Day.The effort forms part of a wider Caribbean tree- planting project coor...

Government and Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) clashed yesterday over a statement from Justice Minister Delroy Chuck which called for openness in dealing with the trial related to the 15-year-old Trafigura donation scandal."Fift...

THERE were mixed feelings among 27 Jamaican citizens and residents who had been stranded in the United Kingdom (UK) since December due to a ban on flights from that nation following discovery of a more infectious strain of the novel cor...

JAMAICA'S political directorate and the main entity which represents media workers, the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ), were beaming yesterday after the country was described as "almost flawless" in the 2021 World Press Freedom Inde...

United States Chargé d'Affaires John McIntyre (left) and Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change Pearnel Charles Jr (second right), along with their families, plant two trees at the lawns of the embassy in St...

THE cash-strapped Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), which is faced with a net operating loss of some $8 billion this year, appears to be getting a handle on its overtime expenses - a major expense. Last July, Auditor General Pamela ...

Today is the 112th day of 2021. There are 253 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHGLIGHT1978: The One Love Peace Concert is held at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. The aim was to bring together Kingston's politically divided co...

MINISTER of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says his ministry will be focusing on reducing instances of visitor harassment and poor solid waste management practices during the post-COVID-19 period."We will be placing special focus on reducing i...

OPPOSITION spokesperson on foreign affairs and foreign trade Lisa Hanna is urging the Government to join hands with the Opposition and the private sector to seek growth solutions by pushing a foreign policy which focuses on economic dev...

MONTEGO BAY St James - The Irwin High School fraternity has been mourning the death of seventh grade student Hemmecia Greenwood, who perished in a fire that destroyed her grandparents' home at Potosi Drive in John's Hall, Monday afterno...

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) - In a case that gripped global attention, Caribbean and other elected officials have welcomed Tuesday's conviction of white former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, in the May 25, 2020 death of bl...

A total of 315 farmers from 11 districts in St Thomas and St Andrew have benefited from irrigation equipment and techniques to boost crop production under the Irrigation Systems Consultancy Project.The consultancy was executed through a...

BUSINESS relationship and sales manager at JN Bank, Dr Ransford Davidson, says the new work-from-home model, which has been adapted by several organisations across Jamaica due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, is the future of work.Dav...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Trelawny police say they have been working with residents to target criminals seeking refuge in the parish. In an interview with JIS News, head of the Trelawny police, Superintendent Carlos Russell, said resi...

WASHINGTON, DC, United Sates (AP) - President Joe Biden is convening a coalition of the willing, the unwilling, the desperate-for-help and the avid-for-money for a global summit Thursday aimed at rallying the world's worst polluters to ...

THE 2021 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) shows that journalism, the main vaccine against disinformation, is completely or partly blocked in 73 per cent of the 180 countries ranked by the organisatio...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, April 22, 2021: Stable, determined and creative, the world is your oyster as you embrace all possibilities. This year, you make even a humdrum job innovative and interesting. Your balance sheet continues to ...

COMING on the heels of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clearing people who are fully vaccinated for travel, and inoculation programmes picking up steam in major markets, a number of countries are starting to welcome to...

PERMANENT secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security Colette Roberts Risden yesterday pointed to a runaway oversight system in the relationship between the National Insurance Fund (NIF) and its resort management company (NI...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - President Joe Biden said yesterday the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd "can be a giant step forward" for the nation in the fight against s...

VETERAN Jamaican journalist Michael Sharpe was yesterday remembered as one who was fearless while on the job and who was never afraid to give young people a shot at success in journalism.Sharpe, who spent close to 40 years in the profes...

MINNEAPOLIS, United States (AFP) - "Guilty!" As the jury's murder conviction against white ex-policeman Derek Chauvin was relayed on a loudspeaker yesterday, the anxious crowd in front of the Minneapolis courthouse erupted in joy and ex...

Member of Parliament for Westmoreland Central George Wright, who has been embroiled in controversy regarding a video showing a man beating a woman, has been granted leave of absence from the House of Representatives pending a conclusion...

AFTER nearly 17 years of trying, Cabinet minister Everald Warmington says he welcomes the opportunity to grill the auditor general about her department's expenditure issues, as she has been doing to other government ministries, departme...

Q. I heard that there are currently no available appointments for regular tourist visas at the US Embassy. I've had a non-immigrant B1/B2 visa in the past, but it is expired. Is it still possible to get a visa?A. YES! The non-immigrant...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness is among two Caribbean heads of Government who have been invited to attend the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate which will take place from Thursday to Friday this week.United States President Joseph Biden,...

THE Caribbean Urological Association (CURA) says there isn't sufficient evidence and research to suggest that there is a clinical link between the novel coronavirus and erectile dysfunction (ED)."COVID-19 is a new infection, so you're n...

THE Ministry of Health and Wellness has reported that of the more than 135,000 people who received the first dose of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine, only a few made an Event Supposedly Attributable to Vaccination or Immunisation (ES...

 CONSIDERED a champion in Africa, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I received a rapturous welcome from the Rastafarian community when he arrived at Palisadoes Airport in Jamaica on April 21, 1966, 55 years ago today. One of the stops o...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - Volcanologist Professor Richard Robertson is predicting another natural hazard for the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines already dealing with the effect of an erupting La Soufriere volcano.He believes...

Dear Mr Brown:Please explain the new pathway programmes for permanent residency. I hope to start my application for permanent residency with you despite all of the delays in immigration processing during the pandemic. But I hope I will ...

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) yesterday advised the authorities in The Netherlands of the United Kingdom Privy Council's dismissal of an appeal by former officers and members of the People's National Party (PN...

TWO public officials, one of them a senior medical doctor, are facing criminal prosecution brought by the Integrity Commission for breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act. The officials are Dr Gitanjali Baburam, who was employed to th...

THE Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) received another boost to its mobile health unit last Friday when it collected the keys to a Toyota Coaster bus, costing approximately $15 million, from Toyota Jamaica.The CPFSA al...

AS the debate continues over the decision by some employers to demand that employees take the COVID-19 vaccine in order to keep their jobs, a local attorney is warning that criminal action could be taken against the heads of these entit...

THE annual sectoral debate commences this afternoon at Gordon House, downtown Kingston, with Leader of the House of Representatives Edmund Bartlett's opening presentation, which will focus on his tourism portfolio.Opposition spokeswoman...

The plight of a 75-year-old Government pensioner worsened in recent weeks when her attempt to have the court evict a tenant who has not paid rent for a three-bedroom house since January resulted in the matter being set for hearing in a...

Though the gruesome killing will be forever etched in their memory, the Knight family says it has received some comfort from the charge slapped on patriarch, 64-year-old businessman Delton Knight, in relation to the shooting death of hi...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 is a day Kedine Blair will never forget. Not only was it her son Ne-Sean Blair's 16th birthday, but it was the same day he was shot and injured by a gunman at a shop in the community of N...

Firemen carry out cooling-down operations after putting out a fire which destroyed this container used to store new furniture, which was parked on Elgin Road in Kingston 5.(Photo: Karl Mclarty) 

Today is the 110th day of 2021. There are 265 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS2014: Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the American boxer whose wrongful murder conviction became an international symbol of racial injustice and inspired a...

Plans for a European Super League (ESL) have plunged football into an unprecedented crisis. The UK Government has threatened to invoke competition law to block it, while fans have slammed it as the "ultimate betrayal".Jamaican attorney ...

THE annual Administrative Professionals' Week started Sunday with a declaration by Governor General Sir Patrick Allen urging increased recognition and appreciation of the work being done by people in that field.Highlight of the week wil...

METEOROLOGICAL Service, Jamaica (MetService JA) has added a new automatic weather station to its inventory of updated equipment across the island, a move intended to ultimately improve the quality of local forecasts and the reliability ...

THE Roman Catholic church in Jamaica is calling for higher levels of consensus between the two major political parties to fix the issues of criminal violence plaguing the country and has pledged its commitment to help stamp out criminal...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - As the passengers walked a little dazed through the airport gates they were embraced one after another by family members who rushed forward and dissolved into tears.Elation and relief marked the opening o...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, April 20, 2021:Patient, sensual and artistic, your perseverance continues to amaze friends and colleagues. This year, you emerge from working behind the scenes and are noticed by those who matter. Be conserva...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The murder case against former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd went to the jury yesterday in a city on edge against another round of unrest like the one that erupted last year over the video of the ...