AYANNA Samuels has a lot on her plate. She is an aerospace engineer, technology policy specialist, gender advocate and international development professional. She has also run a consultancy practice for over 17 years. Her practice focus...

With their gifts of appreciation from Sandals South Coast, nurses (from left) Sasheva Lewis, of Omega Medical, and Shanice Vickers, Tader Suban, and TaviaSmith of Athena Medical pause for a photo op on their way from a celebratory lunch...

AN organisational review of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) has revealed the need for an additional 150 social workers, state minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information Robert Morgan has reporte...

MEMBER of the World Health Organization (WHO) Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) Working Group on COVID-19 Vaccines, Professor Peter Figueroa, says the AstraZeneca vaccine is very effective and safe for almost everyone to receiv...

THE Trelawny police have charged 62-year-old Stenneth Wilson, alias Uncle, of Clark's Town in Trelawny with murder following the chopping death of his common-law wife at their home on Saturday.The Clarke's Town police reported that abou...

Today is the 132nd day of 2021. There are 233 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2002: Former US President Jimmy Carter travels to Cuba for talks with President Fidel Castro and the nation's leading dissidents. He is the first forme...

FROM living near the swampy lands of New Haven in Kingston to being the 2018 recipient of the Musgrave Award for Literature, Roland Watson Grant has once again displayed excellence after being named the 2021 regional award winner of the...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - A gunman launched an attack on a school in the Russian city of Kazan that left at least nine people dead yesterday - including seven youngsters - and sent students hiding under their desks or running out of the bui...

SHE is studying to be a business lawyer but 17-year-old Ashanti James is also a philanthropist in the making, confident that working behind the scenes with her father on the James and Friends Education Programme (JFEP) will prepare her ...

 WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - A new study published by the World Bank has found a strikingly large percentage of workers and firms operate outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies (E...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - Police Commissioner Gary Griffith says several unidentified posts on social media in recent times are "clearly designed and geared toward instability, panic, and efforts to de-stabilise our democracy".In ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) - Authorities in the western Mexican state of Jalisco are investigating whether the abduction and killing of three siblings could have been a case of mistaken identity.A group of armed men wearing tactical vests...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - A new study by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) finds that consumption of sugary drinks could decline substantially if they were "properly" taxed.PAHO said that the study, released on Mon...

KANSAS, United States (AP) - US educators are doing everything they can to track down high school students who stopped showing up to classes and to help them get the credits needed to graduate, amid an anticipated surge in the country's...

ALLSIDES, Trelawny - Up to late yesterday the police were maintaining a strong presence at a property which houses a residence and business establishment in Allsides, where the owner allegedly went amok and sprayed his friend with bulle...

THE Child Protection and Family Services Agency could serve closure notices on several children's homes across the island because of the failure on the part of their management to meet licensing requirements outlined by The Child Care a...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Regional director of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), North East Region, Carolyn Stewart is encouraging all Jamaicans to report suspected cases of child abuse."If you feel like a child is ...

St Aloysius Primary students Nichola Morna and Abrinna Brown yesterday expressed joy at being back at school as face-to-face classes for exit exam students resumed at more then 500 schools across the island."I am excited because the onl...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Leaders at four schools in Manchester and St Elizabeth reported a favourable turnout of exam students for the resumption of face-to-face classes yesterday following last week's directive from the Government.The ...

It took the police a mere 13 minutes, using the JamaicaEye closed-circuit TV network, to apprehend three gunmen after they killed a businessman on Old Hope Road in St Andrew and took his firearm, around midday yesterday.The criminals, t...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Educators in western Jamaica say there was a smooth start to yesterday's resumption of face-to-face classes for students who will be sitting this year's exit exams.Last week, Prime Minister Andrew Holness announc...

THE JN Foundation, in a bid to promote climate resilience among local residential and commercial industries, will from May 13 to 14 host a climate change, sustainability and innovation water summit.According to the foundation, the two-d...

THE People's National Party (PNP) yesterday appointed a junior shadow Cabinet, which it said will integrate youngsters into policymaking for the advancement of the nation's social, economic and political development.The 18-member team w...

Today is the 131st day of 2021. There are 234 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2000: With the birth of a baby girl named Astha - "Faith" in Hindi - India's population officially hits one billion. OTHER EVENTS1507: France annexes ...

AN official at HEART/NSTA (National Service Training Agency) Trust says there is a negative perception about technical and vocational education and training (TVET) among some education leaders, which she said is an area that should be r...

AMID the raging pandemic, rising reports of domestic violence, rape, brutal murders and global uncertainties, 25 professional women of faith will join hands in the staging of a mega international conference on July 24 and 25.The confere...

La-Toya Nesbitt (right), principal of Allman Town Primary School, tries out one of the laptops presented to the students by JN Fund Managers, while her students Jhemeilia Gentles (centre) and Emilio Kongal look on. The laptops were pres...

NEW YORK, USA - Plans by Jamaicans overseas to set up a US$10-million fund to help fight crime in their beleaguered homeland are moving apace, but the Government won't be "touching one red cent" of the money, they have vowed. A core gro...

WHILE they work assiduously and selflessly on the front line amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, health-care workers say their children are left unseen and unsupervised on the back end. Various medical practitioners have told the Jamai...

Some criminals will never get caught, according to commanding officer of the St Andrew North Police Division, Superintendent Aaron Fletcher.He said that proper policing continues to be hampered, as criminals are largely undetectable bec...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Members of the Lay Magistrates Association of Jamaica (LMAJ) Manchester chapter and employees of the Consolidated Health Services lined a section of Caledonia Road in Mandeville to get a glimpse of a procession ...

The latest edition of the prestigious cruiseandferry.net, the twice-yearly magazine of the global passenger shipping industry, features Jamaica's newest cruise pier, Port Royal, which sailed off but was quickly stalled by the coronavir...

THE Statistical Institute of Jamaica (Statin) is encouraging householders to cooperate with the officers who are out in the field gathering data for the pilot of the 2022 Population and Housing Census.Data collection got underway on Apr...

In the 1960s Jamaican immigrants to Toronto, Canada, carved out a settlement for themselves, and proceeded to transform the space into what the Globalnews.ca magazine calls "a global hotbed for reggae culture".Little Jamaica is what the...

THE Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) says it is giving its full backing to the Public Procurement Order, 2021, under which the Government plans to carry out the Montego Bay Perimeter Road Project.According to president of the un...

CLARK'S TOWN, Trelawny - Mother of 11, Annette Keeling described yesterday as her worst Mother's Day ever after learning that her 29-year-old daughter Nickiesha Keeling, commonly called Gally, has been hacked to death, allegedly by her ...

The JPS has said that 525 street lights have been stolen across the island since the start of 2021.Many communities across the island are plagued with this theft, the company said in a statement, with the highest incidences being in Por...

Sandals Resorts International (SRI) says it will employ 500 Vincentians when the company begins its recruitment drive in the next few weeks for a planned Beaches Resort on that island, which has been hard hit by explosive eruptions at L...

Charley Montague surprises his wife Dianna with a gift in Half-Way-Tree on Mother's Day, yesterday.(Photo: Garfield Robinson)  

Today is the 130th day of 2021. There are 235days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1994: Former US President George Bush's office releases his letter of resignation from the National Rifle Association in which Bush expresses outrage ...

Kishauna Griffiths, a patient at Victoria Jubilee Hospital, accepts a Mother's Day gift basket from Hugh Reid, general manager, JN Life Insurance Company Limited, during a presentation to mothers at the hospital in Kingston yesterday. T...

Last Mother's Day, they celebrated with bacon and eggs over FaceTime . This time, Jean Codianni of Los Angeles flew to New Jersey to surprise her 74-year-old mother, now that both have been vaccinated against the disease that has sto...

They share Roman Catholicism as a faith and California as their home base. Yet there's a deep gulf between Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego in the high-stakes debate over whether p...

BENGALURU, India (AP) - Since India opened vaccinations to all adults this month, hoping to tame a disastrous coronavirus surge sweeping across the country, the pace of administering the shots has dropped with states saying they only ha...

AS the five men charged with buggery in relation to a 13-year-old girl in St Ann last week made their first appearance in court on Friday, the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) led a motorcade throughout several commun...

Following the death of 53-year-old Westmoreland fisherman Donovan Haywood, who was attacked by a shark last week, many people are now worried about encountering a shark when they go for a swim. Now, renowned retired marine scientist Dr...

Children all over the world are having tough times while grappling with the effects of the novel caronavirus pandemic, but the circumstances affecting them in the New Market Oval, Westmoreland, are even more daunting.The situation remai...

RENEISHA Spence has one wish.It is to be able to go back to school and further her education in order to help her children with their schoolwork when they ask for assistance in the midst of online schooling and the coronavirus pandemic....

A year after they were forced to roam the high seas as countries, including Jamaica, closed their borders to international travel amid the rise in COVID-19 cases, several local seafarers are headed back to the waters.If it were up to th...

Golding's worrying silence on Lambert BrownTWO weeks have passed. Yet, some of the nation's citizens are still waiting to hear even a peep out of the more than quiet president of the People's National Party, Mark Golding, about his Oppo...