Today is the 208th day of 2021. There are 157 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS1998: White House intern Monica Lewinsky ends six months of silence to talk with prosecutors investigating her relations with US President Bill Clinto...

 FINANCING for adaptation not only needs to be scaled up; it must be more accessible.That is the consensus of participants in the high-level ministerial meeting in London, United Kingdom, where Jamaica's Minister of Housing, Urban Rene...

THE Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) will be hosting a 'Tourism Webinar' tomorrow, beginning at 10:00 am, to commemorate its 25th anniversary.The webinar is open to all tourism stakeholders as well as individuals who have an ...

LONGVILLE PARK, Clarendon - The National Water Commission (NWC) has moved to assure residents of this community that it has flushed and sterilised the lines after being forced to dump sewage into a drain in Phase 3 in mid-July. A 33-sec...

BANKS, Clarendon - Major infrastructural development such as an entertainment zone and significant improvement in the drainage system are on the cards for the community of Banks when the fifth pilot project under the ministry of local g...

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) - Dominica yesterday launched its electronic passport (e-passport) that it says will significantly reduce identify theft and will be an integral component of its border management systems.National Security Ministe...

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis yesterday decried as criminal the existence of hunger in a world which can produce enough food for all, building on a warning from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that climate change and conflict are the c...

MISSOURI, United States (AP) - Although the pandemic disrupted family life across the US since taking hold in spring 2020, some parents are grateful for one consequence: They're now opting to homeschool their children, even as schools p...

WASHINGTON, DC United States (AP) - The United States will keep existing COVID-19 travel restrictions on international travel in place for now due to concerns about the surging infection rate because of the Delta variant, according to a...

A 74-year-old man, Lewin Williams, is fighting to avoid deportation from Britain on grounds that he is battling cancer and will die if he is forced to go back to Jamaica, where he won't be able to afford life-saving treatment.Williams h...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - As the tourism sector rebounds from the standstill caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic, the industry is now on a recruitment drive to fill the void left by some workers who have since transitioned to differe...

WILMINGTON, Delaware (AP) - The United States is in an "unnecessary predicament" of soaring number of novel coronavirus cases fuells by unvaccinated Americans and the virulent d elta variant, the nation's top infectious diseases expert...

LAST Thursday's virtual town hall meeting, convened by the joint select committee which is considering the proposal for Portmore to become Jamaica's 15th parish, yielded little, as Government and Opposition representatives butted heads ...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green is urging the private sector to assist in providing low-cost funding for farmers and fishers in an effort to advance the sector.Addressing the launch of the GK Weather Protect insurance ...

Regional energy company West Indies Petroleum Limited (WIPL) and its founding directors, Gerald Charles Chambers, Tarik Felix and Gordon Shirley, registered a major win in the Supreme Court in Kingston when Justice David Batts threw out...

Photo 1: A man pauses on deserted Park Lane off Red Hills Road in St Andrew where three men were killed and four shot and injured on Saturday night.Photo 2: Another view of volatile Park Lane in St Andrew, scene of a triple murder and ...

Government Senator Natalie Campbell Rodriques on Friday warned parents against their vulnerability when using 'blind faith' to raise their children.In her maiden appearance in the Senate's state of the nation (SON) debate, the senator u...

If the National Executive Council (NEC) of the People's National Party (PNP) was waiting with bated breath for party leader Mark Golding to raise the issue of the widening schism in the party as part of his major address yesterday, it ...

Senior Superintendent of Police James Forbes will return to his high-profile job this Wednesday following advice late last week from the Police Service Commission that he has been reinstated after being freed of corruption charges.The ...

Jamaica is being urged to rethink its energy strategy if it is to meet the ambitious target, set by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, of 50 per cent of the electricity generation being from renewables by 2030.Outgoing British High Commissi...

INSTEAD of toying with the idea of a vaccine mandate, the Government should be considering the implications of the slow pace of vaccination in the face of new variants of COVID-19, and whether the country could find itself in a precario...

GROWING up in Brown's Town, St Ann, Sheblet Barnett would have seen her parents going above and beyond for their neighbours, friends and family alike.Barnett, who has also found herself doing the same, believes it is an inevitable part ...

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s, and later helped improve minority education in math, has di...

MEDICAL doctor and social commentator, Dr Alfred Dawes recently stoked members of the Rotary Club of Trafalgar New Heights and other service organisations to view the challenges wrought by the novel coronavirus pandemic as opportunities...

Today is the 207th day of 2021. There are 158 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2006: Andrea Yates is found not guilty by reason of insanity by a Houston jury in the bathtub drownings of her five children; she is committed to a stat...

MEMBER of Parliament for Clarendon South Eastern, Pearnel Charles Jr says there will be a two-pronged approach which will form the basis for solving one of the major causes of flooding in the Longville Park Housing Scheme. "Actions and ...

Twenty-three students have successfully completed the inaugural events planning and management level 3 supervisory course offered by the HEART/NSTA Trust and graduated with their skill certificates last Thursday.The level 3 supervisory ...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - Tunisia's president fired the country's prime minister yesterday and froze Parliament's activities after violent demonstrations over the country's pandemic and economic situation.Protesters erupted with celebration...

INDIAN FALLS, USA (AP) - California's largest wildfire merged with a smaller blaze and destroyed homes in remote areas, leaving limited access for firefighters as numerous other fires gained strength and threatened property across the w...

Derrick Price is happy he escaped with his life from a deadly motor vehicle crash on April 12 on the PJ Patterson Highway in St Catherine.But with constant pain in different parts of his body and the inability since then to fulfill his ...

Nationally, Eugene Kelly's name is not one that would readily resonate among the masses. But it would always echo within People's National Party (PNP) quarters.He, a history and marketing graduate at the tertiary level, and certified re...

At 40, Eugene Kelly will become the youngest vice-president among the four nominated in the Opposition People's National Party when he is ratified at the organisation's annual conference in September.The councillor for the Whitfield Tow...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - In a political career spanning 15 years, Valenton (Val) Wint has thrice contested parliamentary elections on behalf of the People's National Party (PNP), seeking, as he puts it, to represent the "poor, disposs...

THERE is an ongoing feud between Bowla's Car Rentals and the National Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of Jamaica regarding the recall of a loan not in arrears with a maturity date of 2025.Principal of Bowla's Car Rentals Pauline Bowla Andrade...

AT just 23 years old, Paul Hyman is the financial planning and analysis and internal control manager at Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited.Two years before, he was a senior accountant at KPMG Chartered Accountants. And at 20 he made his...

SINCE 2015 over 6,000 children between ages 12 and 18 have been hauled before the courts for serious crimes, data from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) have revealed.The data, which reflects the period 2015 to April 2021, show that ...

Entering the Riverton Meadows community you are met with desperate calls from hustlers seeking a sale on items scrimmaged from the dump.The further in you get, the brighter the picture of poverty becomes, with sights of board houses, pe...

This firefighter's job is over, as he wallks past the administrative building of the Hydel Group of Schools at Ferry, St Catherine that caught fire Thursday morning. The blaze caused damage estimated at $50 million. (Photo: Naphtali Jun...

The Wild West on Spanish Town RoadLast Tuesday evening's 'Wild West' incident along Spanish Town Road in Kingston underlines how far we are from living in peace, comfort and style in this country.Gunmen from nearby Tivoli Gardens, the p...

WITH global attention, at least over the past 15 months, focused on the response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, other health issues have seemingly taken a back seat.Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which accounts for seven of the w...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is against the idea of secondary schools requesting fees to process transfers for students. "The ministry would like to make it clear that there should be no charge for transfer," it sai...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The 39-year-old St James pastor, his wife, and the mother of a teenaged girl who accused the clergyman of rape are expected to know on Tuesday, September 27 when a trial date will be set for their case.All three,...

LUCEA, Hanover - Medical officer of health for Hanover, Dr Kaushal Singh, has rejected suggestions of a possible correlation between the staging of Mocha Fest at Rick's Café in Negril in May and the spike in COVID-19 cases in Hanover.L...

Attorney-at-law Michelle Thomas is urging the Government to introduce a system whereby every mother under age 18 is registered for monitoring and guidance on parenting.At the same time, social anthropology lecturer at The University of ...

ASHISH Health Care in St Mary will be offering free medicals to students within the community of Highgate on Wednesday, July 28, as part of its assistance with back-to-school preparations.Indian native Dr Nagendra Babu Chandolu, who run...

Shanna Kaye Wright Vaughn, Jamaican youth leader, was selected as one of several speakers at the most recent staging of Voxburner's Youth Marketing Strategy (YMS) ONLINE USA festival.The virtual event, which was held from July 13-15, i...

MONTEGO BAY, St James -The Cornwall College Digital Support Initiative received a major fillip following the donation of 115 Dell Latitude 14-inch laptop computers, valued over $10 million, from the New York, Southern Florida and Canadi...

Dr Yedesney Carmona Linares displays his prize, courtesy of Guardian Group, after being the first person to e-mail the correct answer to a question asked during last Sunday's Your Health Your Wealth webinar hosted by the Jamaica Observe...

Worried and uncomfortable, Kasandra Howell and Fred Caine sought repeated medical advice for their newborn son, Frejaun Caine; whom they suspected wasn't breathing properly.Through a friend, health workers from a clinic visited their ho...

May 5, 2021 is a day that Ucal Sinclair will never forget.On that day, fire gutted the house of the 60-year-old on Perth Drive in the Manchester parish capital of Mandeville, forcing him to seek shelter under a tarpaulin which he tied t...