THE Jamaica Police Federation is demanding answers from the Government over an estimated $1.7 billion owed in pension payments to 387 retired officers, some of who served the constabulary for more than 40 years.According to the federati...

 PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says that the Government is concerned that the current cohort of grade 6 students could fall behind as they transition to grade 7, because of the learning time loss associated with the novel coronavirus p...

POLICE yesterday shot and killed one man while another is on the run following an attempted robbery at a gas station at Red Hills Square in St Andrew.A detective at the scene confirmed that the men were in the process of robbing the gas...

THE Police Federation, charging that the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has been making "spurious allegations" about the conduct of lawmen in last week's daylight gun battle on Trafalgar Road in the Corporate Area, i...

STUDENTS of Ferncourt High School in Claremont, St Ann, have received a technological boost to assist with research and the completion of assignments with the official opening of a state-of-the-art resource centre at the institution.The...

TOMORROW will make it five months since Suzith Anderson reported her only son Oshane Crawford, a security guard, missing to the police, and she is still seeking word on the investigation that can give her some comfort or closure."If mi ...

JUST over two weeks after they successfully rescued 66-year-old George Smart from a 55-foot pit on Jones Avenue in St Catherine, where he had been dumped by thugs, firefighters at the Spanish Town fire station are continuing to reflect ...

Today is the 138th day of 2021. There are 227 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1765: About one-fourth of Montreal, Canada, is destroyed by a fire. OTHER EVENTS1642: The Canadian city of Montreal is founded by French colonists.178...

THE Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has issued a directive to the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) to start submitting quarterly reports on data on meter readings for residential customers that fall outside of 30 per ce...

THE agricultural sector last year realised an 8.4 per cent increase in export earnings valuing US$238 million, up from US$216 million in 2019.Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green made the disclosure during his contribution ...

MINISTER of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange has announced that Prime Minister Andrew Holness and president of the Republic of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa will on May 25 address an international webinar to mark A...

MINISTER of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green has announced the opening of a limited entry commercial fishery for sea cucumbers, commencing September 1, 2021."Sea cucumber in the Asian market fetches US$385 per kilogramme. We believ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Guyana is being urged to begin discussions on legalising same-sex relations as the global community observed 'International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia' yesterday.In a joint statement issu...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, May 18, 2021: It's fortunate that you are a high-energy person, because you are multitalented and fascinated by many things. You are compassionate, caring and genuinely interested in others. You are both prac...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The Israeli military unleashed another heavy wave of air strikes yesterday on the Gaza Strip, saying it destroyed militant tunnels and the homes of nine Hamas commanders.International diplomacy to end the we...

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - The US Supreme Court agreed yesterday to a showdown over abortion in a case that could dramatically alter nearly 50 years of rulings on abortion rights.With three justices appointed by President Donald T...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - President Joe Biden said yesterday that the US will share an additional 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with the world in the coming six weeks.The doses would come from the existing US producti...

A team of Jamaicans is now awaiting confirmation that they broke the Guinness World record for having the most people present in an online web development hangout, after successfully helping more than 1,000 entrepreneurs to develop onli...

A programme designed to help Jamaicans choose healthier meal options is being launched today by the Ministry of Health and Wellness with eight of the island's most popular restaurant chains.The 'Better For You' programme, as it is being...

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is reporting a 54 per cent fall in revenues from fares, as well as a severe drop in charters since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic in March 2020."We have seen a 54 per cent fall-off i...

The south coast highway project will result in the relocation of Bull Bay Police Station, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang said on Saturday.Chang made the disclosure as he and minister without portfolio in the ministry Matthe...

THE National Water Commission (NWC) says illegal connections to its transmission main by criminals are responsible for the inconsistent supply affecting residents of Kennedy Grove housing scheme in Clarendon.The water management agency ...

GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands (CMC) - The Government has removed the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing requirement for returning travellers who have completed their COVID-19 vaccination course with the Health Services Authority (HSA)...

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) says it is seeking to reduce the government subvention required to keep its service on the roads.In a statement issued over the weekend, Managing Director Paul Abrahams said the original budget r...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - The Trelawny police believe that three men and two women they held last Monday travelling in a motor car in which an illegal firearm wrapped in a baby's shirt was discovered were on their way to avenge the murder of...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - It seems the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation will be holding its regular meetings in a church rather than its home base for much longer than was previously anticipated.In April, the council moved its month...

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday defended the decision to ease mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, stressing that increasing political pressure had nothing to do with the abrupt ...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - Britain yesterday passed the milestone of vaccinating 20 million adults with two doses of the COVID-19 jab, just a day before a raft of restrictions are lifted across most of the country.According to Gover...

The agricultural sector in 2020, realised an 8.4 per cent increase in export earnings valuing US$238 million, up from US$216 million in 2019.Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green made the disclosure during his contribution ...

Mackalia Sturlin, a student of Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf, Kingston, located in Cassia Park, St Andrew, convincingly signed her way into the hearts of the audience and onto the scoresheets of the three judges at last Saturd...

THE Organization of American States (OAS), last Wednesday, held a special sitting during which it paid glowing tributes to late former Ambassador Anthony Johnson, who had served as Jamaica's envoy to the western hemisphere organisation ...

KEY players in the local telecoms and e-commerce industries believe Jamaica is on the right path to digital transformation.Their views come as Jamaica joins other countries globally to observe World Telecommunication and Information Soc...

TEN years ago Robert Runcie accepted the position of Broward County School Board superintendent with impressive credentials. This summer, he steps down with his reputation in question.The 59 year-old Runcie was widely hailed for his man...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The Ministry of Human Services says that during the first quarter of this year 110 boys, aged three and under, were abused.The ministry, in releasing the figure yesterday in observance of International Day of ...

WASHINGTON, DC, Unites States (AP) - The Associated Press ' top editor yesterday called for an independent investigation into the Israeli air strike that targeted and destroyed a Gaza City building housing the AP , broadcaster Al-Jaz...

Today is the 137th day of 2021. There are 228 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1954: A unanimous US Supreme Court handed down its Brown v Board of Education of Topeka decision, which held that racially segregated public schools we...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Sharks use the Earth's magnetic field as a sort of natural GPS to navigate journeys that take them great distances across the world's oceans, scientists have found.Researchers said their marine laboratory experime...

JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) - It took just days for decades-old tensions between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas to spiral out of control, causing deaths and chaos not just in Gaza but across the Jewish state.As the escal...

LISBON, Portugal (AFP) - Portugal will open to tourists from nearly all European countries from today, the interior ministry said, following months of restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.The vacation hot spot hopes to jump-st...

JAMAICANS top the number of migrants making their way to Canada from the Caribbean region, data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has revealed.Some 21,215 Jamaicans have acquired permanent resident status in the N...

EVEN after going through six rounds of chemotherapy procedures and surgery to remove a part of her colon, 28-year-old Shaunice Dean is enjoying the happiest period her life. In fact, she believes that by December, after her final surger...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - For decades, restaurants, roadside eateries, bars and vending spots in Clarendon and Manchester have been go-to places and rest stops for commuters travelling between Kingston, Mandeville and other points west a...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - There are increased rumblings among some stakeholders in the construction industry in the western region and elsewhere, who claim that their businesses are being negatively impacted by the shortage of cement from...

FORMER Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade AJ Nicholson has denied a report by Leader of Government Business in the Senate and Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith that he sent her threatening e-mail in 2018.Nicholson...

NEWS of the expected eruption of La Soufrière volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines came as a shock to several Jamaicans who settled in the eastern Caribbean island, some more than a decade ago.Vincentians and foreigners were warned...

A fuss has started in the House of Representatives and elsewhere about how the Montego Bay Perimeter Project ought to be administered. But based upon what has transpired in the construction industry in recent years, only one company sho...

When Earl Hemans was growing up in the Allman Town/Woodford Park part of Kingston, Jamaica, the farthest thing from his mind was that one day he would end up serving in the diplomatic service and then eventually launch an export busines...

DESPITE complaints by residents for over a decade, the stench of blood mixed with raw sewage continues to permeate the air of some areas in central Kingston.Those affected have claimed that their cries for help have fallen on deaf ears ...

THE Rotary Club of Kingston increased the number of community outreach projects it executed during the past administrative year, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.Among the major projects completed between July 2020 and April 2021 wer...

AT age 16, Rynola Fraser is steadily charting a path to success by becoming the first black and Jamaican woman from the Martin Van Buren High School in New York to be selected as a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in...