CHIEF executive officer of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) Rosalee Gage-Gray has called for the Corporate Area model of the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) to be replicate...

CASTRIES, ST Lucia (CMC) - The Caribbean Community (Caricom) observer team which monitored Monday's general elections that saw the Opposition St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) being victorious, said voters were able to cast their ballots with...

Today is the 209th day of 2021. There are 156 days left in the year.TODAY HIGHLIGHT1959: The People's National Party (PNP) wins Jamaica's fourth general election, wininng 29 of the 45 seats. OTHER EVENTS1540: Thomas Cromwell, Earl of E...

LOCAL Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie says that his ministry will be exploring ways to breathe new life into the Porus Market in Manchester.The facility has experienced a decline in economic activity since the...

THE two-day London meeting of climate ministers from around the world wrapped yesterday with countries reaffirming commitment to prioritising loss and damage - a contentious article under the Paris Agreement which small island developin...

THE first cohort of 23 students who participated in a Level 3 events planning and management supervisory course, offered by the HEART/NSTA Trust, have completed their studies.They were presented with skills certificates during their gra...

RESIDENTS of Adelphi and its environs in St James are eagerly awaiting the completion of the new modern health centre being built in the community.The project is being undertaken by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) at a cost of...

The Government isn't giving any special regulatory treatment to Uber operators, as individuals participating in the ride-sharing service do not have to indicate on their road licence applications what group or organisation they are affi...

THE Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries will be subsidising the first premium for the first 1,000 farmers who sign up for crop insurance coverage under GK Weather Protect. Men will receive a subsidy of $3,500, while women and youth wi...

MANCHESTER Central Member Parliament Rhoda Moy Crawford and two organisations affiliated to the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) came out swinging Monday against criticism of her performance in the constituency by two Opposition member...

Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) President Jasford Gabriel has raised concerns about the weighting of this year's Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Grade Six Ability Test to the final score awarded to students."We are seeking an answer as t...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CMC) - The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) wants the region to develop platforms for producing and distributing new vaccines and medicines as part of "a concerted regional health stra...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) - The Office for the Protection of the Citizen (OPC) has called on persons with information to come forward regarding the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, more than two weeks after gunmen invaded hi...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - "This is how I'm going to die, defending this entrance," Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell recalled thinking, testifying yesterday at the emotional opening hearing of the congressional panel i...

ISLAMABAD (AP) - The US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have promised to pay US$4 billion a year until 2024 to finance Afghanistan's military and security forces, which are struggling to contain an advancing Taliban. A...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changed course yesterday on some masking guidelines, recommending that even vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the US w...

LUCEA, Hanover - Hanover's entertainment, business and education sectors gave mixed responses to Prime Minister Andrew Holness's announcement of tighter COVID-19 measures which take effect today.Meanwhile, one minister of religion has c...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Iesha Vickers admits that she was deprived of sensation when her 11-year-old son Javier Forrester died in her arms on Sunday. But even as she tries to come to terms with his passing, Vickers takes some com...

JAMAICA seems poised to benefit significantly from the US$100 billion which rich countries have committed to jointly mobilise to support the climate needs of developing states.Outgoing British High Commissioner to Jamaica Asif Ahmad say...

KAREEM Coley's death by drowning in the Rio Grande on Sunday has plunged his community - Padmore district in Red Hills, St Andrew - as well as his co-workers at Seprod Group into shock.One female resident of Padmore district, who opted ...

IN recognition of the just-ended Nurses Week 2021, National Baking Company Limited presented the nursing team at University Hospital of The West Indies (UHWI) and Bustamante Hospital for Children with gift baskets and products to signal...

Barely a month after announcing relaxed COVID-19 measures the Jamaican Government was yesterday forced to back-pedal, pushed by rising infections numbering an average 135 new cases per day with a staggering 1,318 new cases already recor...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Julaine Robe Powell and Omeshia Vernon Clunis began yesterday morning as usual - seeing their husbands off to work. However, about 6:00 am, both women became widowsThe men - 38-year-old Warehouse Manager Adrian P...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The old Melrose Hill road, which had been in a state of disrepair for years, is now being rehabilitated to be used as a detour while work progresses on the May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000.George Nic...

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 ...