THE Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) and the State have been accused of having no real interest in ensuring that small farmers get their fair share of the legal marijuana pie, as pilot cultivation programmes have been allowed to fall ...

KEVON McCallum, alleged to be a reputed member of the "Blackman" faction of the Klansman Gang in St Catherine, who was wanted by the St Catherine north police for murder and other serious offences, was nabbed yesterday by the police dur...

The assassination yesterday of the latest president of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, by heavily armed men, marked another Haiti been-there-done-that and an uncanny parody of the sad 217 years of the western hemisphere's most troubled nation.The...

COXWAIN, Clarendon - More than 1,000 residents are set to benefit from a 10,000-gallon water catchment facility in north-central Clarendon once the $9-million system is fully up and running.Originally slated to be ready in October 2020,...

FLINT RIVER, St Mary - On his 69th birthday, Oral Walters did not celebrate as he usually does every year. Instead, he spent July 6 mourning the death of his son Chavon "Benjamin" Walters, who had been killed in a hit-and-run accident t...

AS news of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise spread across the globe yesterday, a shocked and disbelieving silence was the response from Haitians who are now under a "state of siege", leading to closure of the country...

CABINET has approved for tabling in Parliament a white paper for the revised National Policy for Senior Citizens, which will seek to lessen poverty among the nation's elderly.This policy will be implemented over a period of 10 years and...

ELIM, St Elizabeth - An unborn child, a 10-year-old boy, and two girls, ages 10 and 12, have been left without their fathers after a gunman shot dead three men at a party in Newtown in Elim District, Tuesday night.The police named the d...

Today is the 189th day of 2021. There are 176 days left in the year.TODAY's HIGHLIGHT2009: US President Barack Obama and other leaders of the world's richest industrial countries pledge to seek dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions ...

MAY DAY, Manchester - Some school administrators in Manchester and St Elizabeth say they are anticipating that more students will turn out for face-to-face summer school in the coming days.Principal of May Day High Stanford Davis told t...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) - Haiti President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated and his wife wounded early yesterday in a gun attack at their private residence, tipping the impoverished and crisis-hit Caribbean nation into renewed politic...

BUSINESS operators from Wicky Wacky Plaza at Eleven Miles, Bull Bay, St Thomas, have been left in limbo about relocating due to the projected path of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project (SCHIP).The two-part SCHIP involves t...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Director of Tourism Donovan White is reporting an overwhelming interest among international partners in the Jamaica Product Exchange (JAPEX), which is set for September and will be staged at Montego Bay Conventio...

ST ANN'S BAY, St Ann- Carlington Reid, the first person charged under the Dogs (Liability for Attacks) Act 2020, will return to court on November 2 to answer charges of criminal negligence.An incomplete medical report for the victim, 61...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Patrick Green still has a bullet lodged in his back and another in his left hand but he is convinced that he is abundantly blessed.The 53-year-old says he fled extortionists who preyed on him when he ran a restaurant...

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) - New York's governor issued new emergency measures to fight gun violence yesterday as he made it easier for shooting victims to sue gun manufacturers.Andrew Cuomo declared gun violence a "disaster emergenc...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Jacquneil Spooner gesticulated animatedly and her eyes sparkled as she spoke about her fledgling nature-based business, Havilah Organics, which produces skin-friendly soaps and scrubs."Traditional soaps have a...

EWARTON, St Catherine - A bereaved family is fuming, the police have had to intervene, and a young funeral director has egg on his face after the wrong image emblazoned on a casket reportedly derailed last Friday's burial of a man kille...

WITH last weekend's escape from the worst of Tropical Storm Elsa, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has urged Members of Parliament (MP) to hold strain while the Government seeks funding to increase disaster mitigation efforts.In a statemen...

MEMBER of the British Cabinet and president-designate for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) Alok Sharma says it is now critical that developed countries remain faithful to, and advance actions on their promise t...

Manufacturing and shipping conglomerate Jamaica Producers Group recently hosted Denise Patricia Byrne Kingsmill, styled Baroness Kingsmill, who was on an unofficial visit to the island.The baroness is a board member of European fashion...

SCHOOLS operated by the Jamaica Association for the Deaf (JAD) recently received a well-needed technological support boost from Proven Investments Limited which handed over 15 tablets and three laptop computers to help deaf and hard-of-...

Today is the 188th day of 2021. There are 177 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2000: Eager children around the globe grab volumes of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the boy wizard's fourth magical adventure - a massive hit ev...

THE new civil registration number (CRN) developed by the Registrar General's Department (RGD) is expected to improve planning for social security and welfare programmes.The CRN is a code now applied to the RGD's Electronic Birth databas...

HALSE HALL, Clarendon - Jamalco has donated 62 full-sized mattresses to residents in several communities of Clarendon and Manchester. The mattresses were handed over along with bedding and supplies to improve the lives of the elderly an...

GENDER Minister Olivia "Babsy" Grange has vowed to revamp and roll out a programme focused on building the values and attitudes of boys and young men this summer.Speaking with the Jamaica Observer at the opening of a new boardroom named...

QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) - An Ecuadorian businessman has been jailed over a scam to sell body bags to a hospital for more than 10 times their cost price amid a spike in novel coronavirus cases, the prosecution service said yesterday.Daniel ...

Dear Mr Brown,I am interested in migrating to Canada under the Express Entry programme. I did an online evaluation and I was told that I am eligible, so I would like to know the next step to take. How much money do I need to show for th...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) - Haiti's newly appointed premier told AFP yesterday his top priority is creating a "conducive environment" for elections in the crisis-wracked Caribbean country.Ariel Henry, a neurosurgeon who studied in Fra...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - Arthritis drugs tocilizumab and sarilumab reduce the risk of death and the need for ventilators among hospitalised COVID-19 patients, according to an analysis of nearly 11,000 patients published yes...

FLORIDA, United States (AP) - The bodies of two young sisters pulled from the rubble of a Florida condo building - so tiny that the four and 10 year-olds were placed in the same casket - were buried alongside their parents yesterday, th...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - As the end to America's "forever war" rapidly approaches, the US Embassy and other diplomatic missions in Kabul are watching a worsening security situation and looking at how to respond. In the countryside, dis...

FLORIDA, United States (AP) - Tropical Storm Elsa gathered strength and was likely to become a hurricane before coming ashore in Florida, weather forecasters said yesterday. The storm's rains lashed the Caribbean and the Florida Keys an...

SENIOR Pastor of the Waltham Park New Testament Church of God Rev Dr Stevenson Samuels, who noted that Jamaican policemen and women are perhaps more stressed than their colleagues globally, yesterday urged them not to bottle their emoti...

A group of young men from Eleven Miles in Bull Bay, St Andrew, instead of waiting on the National Works Agency (NWA) to remove debris from the road following rains associated with Tropical Storm Elsa, yesterday took on the job themselve...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - With Jamaica being spared the full wrath of Tropical Storm Elsa, albeit damage was evident to roads in sections of Kingston and St Andrew, St Catherine and Clarendon, the parish of Manchester had no such reports...

RESIDENTS of Gordon Town are expressing relief after Tropical Strom Elsa passed close to Jamaica on Sunday with little to no damage to the St Andrew community. Though the storm dumped heavy rain on sections of the island on Sunday, Gord...

AARON Morgan, who was desperate to save his own life early yesterday morning, called the police to come to his rescue after allegedly being attacked with a knife in a domestic dispute, but a twist of events would lead to 35-year-old Tas...

TODAY marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of the late Gordon "Butch" Stewart whose life story is a complex tale of one man's extraordinary journeys and events that have impacted massive numbers of people and brought the world to the...

Executive Chairman of Sandals Resorts International Adam Stewart (second left) recently met with executives of American Airlines to discuss tourism-related matters.The Sandals boss was accompanied by Gary Sadler (left), executive vice-p...

Today is the day 187th day of 2021. There are 178 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2005: New York Times reporter Judith Miller is jailed for refusing to divulge a confidential source to a grand jury investigating the George W Bush...

SAVANNA-LA- MAR, Westmoreland - Excited teachers, nervous parents and strict COVID-19 prevention protocols will be the order of the day when a number of schools in the western end of the island begin face-to-face summer school classes t...

FACILITATING a quick response to those most in need, JP Tropical Foods Limited has provided the medical and support staff at the Bustamante Hospital for Children with a nutritional boost through its donation of more than 1,300 kilograms...

WASHINGTON,United States (CMC) - The World Bank says the 2020 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks' Climate Finance indicates that climate finance to low- and middle-income economies, such as those in the Caribbean, rose to US...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Emergency shelters were empty here for much of Sunday while several homeless people milled about the forlorn streets during persistent rainfall associated with Tropical Storm Elsa.A handful of them flatly told the Ja...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The popular Little Dunn's River beach corridor in this resort town is coming back to life and vendors are thrilled. They anticipate that things will only get better now that tourists, whose purchases they depend on, ...

ATAMI, Japan (AFP) - Rescuers were holding out hope of finding at least 64 people buried under the mud and wreckage of a Japanese holiday town that was hit by a devastating landslide, with teams set to resume the desperate search for su...

LONDON (AP) - Britain plans to scrap laws requiring face masks and social distancing later this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed yesterday, even as he acknowledged that lifting the restrictions will drive surging coronavirus...

Although Tropical Storm Elsa brought no more than showers to Jamaica, the residents of Bamboo River in St Thomas are anxious and fearful of what the rest of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season holds for their flood-prone community.Yester...

RESIDENTS in sections of Old Harbour, St Catherine, had anxious moments yesterday as the rain associated with Tropical Storm Elsa left some areas flooded."The water came inside the house and damaged a lot of personal belongings," Dwayne...