OPPOSITION spokesman on national security Peter Bunting is blaming antiquated laws for the embarrassing, and possible costly decision, by the police to detain a St Ann man who aimed a foul-mouthed tirade at Prime Minister Andrew Holness...

JAMAICA has been placed on high alert for African swine fever (AFS), following a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) report of July 28, 2021 confirming the disease in samples collected from pigs in the Dominican Republic.A re...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Caribbean Community member nations Barbados and Guyana are considering mandatory vaccination for COVID-19. Barbados is also giving consideration to the possibility of mandatory testing for the virus which ha...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - A taxi operator was yesterday taken into police custody after allegedly battering another cabbie during a dispute near Mandeville Regional Hospital.The injured taxi driver remains hospitalised in stable conditio...

A woman died in a fire at her home on West Avenue in Kingston Gardens yesterday and her relatives are tight-lipped due to uncertainty surrounding whether the blaze was the work of gangster arsonists or the result of an electrical proble...

The Crime Monitoring and Oversight Committee (CMOC) has again rapped the Government for its failure to meet several of the agreed deadlines under the almost one-year-old National Crime Consensus Agreement.Addressing a CMOC quarterly bri...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Volunteers from the Barbary Hill Seventh Day Church of God in Murray Mount, St Ann have transformed the house of worship into a place where children lagging behind in their schoolwork can catch up.Once decked out wit...

Today is the 211th day of 2021. There are 154 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1945: The USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, is torpedoed by a Jap...

The Ministry of Education's multimillion-dollar arrangement with Western Hospitality Institute has come under sharp scrutiny based on budgetary allocations made to the institution since 2016 to administer associate degree programmes und...

CLAREMONT St Ann - When Errol Webb heard explosions coming from his younger brother Orlando's house next door, it never crossed his mind that it was his sibling being murdered. But when he went to check at 6:15 am Wednesday, he stumbled...

THE Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation will be undertaking repairs to road infrastructure in St Ann at an estimated cost of more than $400 million.More than $200 million will be spent to carry out works on several roads, drain...

AN official at Tourism Prodct Development Company (TPDCo) has called for more entities within the tourism industry to obtain COVID-19 compliance certification, which indicates that the necessary protocols are upheld and maintained. Dean...

At age 61, Jamaican-born British Olympic and World 100-metre champion Linford Christie is elated that he has finally learnt to swim, saying it's one of the best things he has ever done, the Irish Times reported.Christie, the oldest athl...

LLANDILO, Westmoreland - At 10 years old Jameilia Wright has already had one failed business venture but, more importantly, she used the lessons learned from that experience to make her chicken rearing business a success. From her earni...

FARQUHAR BEACH, Clarendon - For over four decades, Leroy Powell has lived in this seaside community in south-west Clarendon. He's been a fisherman for most of his life, but now the trade he loves has become something of a gamble."Someti...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, July 30, 2021: You are friendly, likable and entertaining. You are also impulsive and spontaneous, often in a dramatic way. You will be youthful, warmhearted and generous all your life. This year is about you....

BOSTON, United States (AP) - The Biden Administration announced yesterday it will allow a nationwide ban on evictions to expire Saturday, arguing that its hands are tied after the Supreme Court signalled it would only be extended until...

BOSTON, United States (AP) - Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy duri...

OREGON, United States (AP) - Judy and Jim Shanks know the exact date their home's well went dry - June 24.Since then, their life has been an endless cycle of imposing on relatives for showers and laundry, hauling water to feed a small h...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is to launch an islandwide COVID-19 vaccination blitz on Saturday after Jamaica receives 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine tomorrow.Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton yester...

Jamaica is among 18 Caricom countries and other regional members of the Organisation of American States (OAS) whose threatened boycott led to the postponement of an OAS meeting on the current situation in Cuba, which was scheduled for ...

The teachers' union has called on Prime Minister Andrew Holness to clarify statements he made on Monday intimating that unvaccinated teachers could find themselves poorer in the pocket as against their counterparts who have taken the C...

THERE are concerns that the main certifying body under the HEART/NSTA Trust - the National Council on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (NCTVET) - has been stuck in limbo, since 2018, between the education ministry and the...

Following back-to-back shooting incidents in the Red Hills Road area of St Andrew, which have led to the killing of at least three people and the injuring of four others between Saturday and Sunday, Milton Tomlinson of the Peace Managem...

TOKYO, Japan - Jamaican "Pocket Rocket" Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is juggling being the fastest woman alive with motherhood as she bids for a third 100m Olympics gold - 13 years after her first triumph.The 34-year-old, who stands just 1.5...

Jamaica's top morning radio host Ron Muschette will present a brand-new show to his legion of listeners, starting August 3, 2021 on The Edge 105 FM, in a development that represents a homecoming of sorts for the man who got his first br...

From left, Assistant manager at the Manning Child Care facility, Petula Maitland; instructor, Madge Calder; and Manager Delroy Brown receive school supplies, gaming items and backpacks from Sandals Foundation volunteers from Sandals Sou...

The days have been extremely hot in recent weeks, so much so that on Wednesday, when the capital city experienced a high of 85 degrees Fahrenheit this cat was forced to quench its thirst at a drainpipe at Johnson's Service Station on Be...

TWO team members from Sandals Ochi Beach Resort - General Manager Kevin Clarke and Regional Public Relations Manager Lyndsay Isaacs - were recently appointed as justices of the peace (JP), which they say is an extension of their service...

Senior Superintendent of Police James Forbes was met with an enthusiastic welcome yesterday when he returned to his job as head of the Community Safety and Security Branch of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), his corruption convicti...

It is with much regret that the Dudley Grant Memorial Trust has learnt of the death of Keith Brown, and the trust sends sincere condolence to his family, friends, and colleagues.The Dudley Grant Memorial Trust pays tribute to Brown as ...

Today is the 210th day of 2021. There are 155 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2003: Sierra Leonean rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who had been in United Nations custody since 2000 and was awaiting trial on charges of mass murder and ...

CORINALDI Avenue Primary School in St James continues to be a juggernaut among educational institutions in western Jamaica, as the school is celebrating yet another year of outstanding passes in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinatio...

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) - Phillip Joseph Pierre, who was yesterday sworn in as the ninth prime minister of St Lucia, promised to fulfil the hopes and aspirations of the people of the island.Pierre, 66, an economist/accountant, led the ...

DESPITE the learning challenges spawned by the novel coronavirus pandemic, some principals are pleased with their students' performance in the 2021 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) this year.Principal at Emmanuel Kinder Prep in Manchester, Ya...

MORE than 60 adolescent parents will receive bursaries and scholarships, valued at some $3.9 million, from the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) to help with their educational expenses.The presentations will be made at the thi...

THE Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) is to reveal the results of its 2020 Mystery Shopping exercise, done to assess the level of customer service being offered by utility service providers.The findings will be revealed today at a we...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Thirty-three-year-old Amber-Gail Grandison was installed as the new president of the Rotary Club of Montego Bay, making her the youngest to ever serve in this capacity in the history of the organisation.Grandison...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The Guyana Government yesterday welcomed the discovery of new oil wells within the Stabroek Block offshore, saying it will add to the previously announced gross discovered recoverable resource estimate for the...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - More than half a century since they were modernised, hate crime laws in the US are inconsistent and provide incomplete methods for addressing bias-motivated violence, according to a new report by advocate...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's newly installed prime minister, Ariel Henry, held his first press conference yesterday as he pledged to hold elections as soon as possible following the slaying of President Jovenel Moïse.Henry said...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Puerto Rico's governor announced yesterday that all public employees must be vaccinated against the coronavirus, starting next month, as the US territory reports a new rise in cases.The executive order goes ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - New guidance from the federal government set off a cascade of mask rules across the nation yesterday as cities, states, schools and businesses raced to bring back mandates and others pushed back agai...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday July 29, 2021: You are likable, intuitive and dramatic. You are warm and generous, and you care for others. You seek new vistas because you want life to be stimulating. This is a year of change for you, and i...

The heated debate on the use of Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 continued yesterday when outspoken reggae artiste Tanya Stephens questioned the relevance of not allowing people to decide for themselves what they wish to take to reduce symp...

Psychiatrist Dr Winston De La Haye says that tobacco's main threat to the health of the society is the danger of addiction.Dr De La Haye told a joint select committee reviewing the Tobacco Control Act, 2021, at Gordon House yesterday t...

Worried residents of Kingston Gardens in the capital city say the fire bombing of premises on East Avenue early yesterday morning was clear indication that a violent feud between the Genasyde and Darksyde gangs - which have been wreakin...

Senior Government minister Everald Warmington has promised to go back to Cabinet for a decision to ensure that responsibility for upkeep and rehabilitation of roads and other infrastructure in housing schemes falls squarely in the lap ...

A man on Monday walked from the Corporate Area Home Circuit Court a free citizen after beating a murder charge stemming from a 2017 incident.In the case tried before before Supreme Court Judge Justice Lorna Shelly-Williams over four day...

A senior policeman is warning Jamaican parents and guardians to be more leery of kind strangers, noting that human traffickers have gone as far as to cloak themselves as ardent Christians in order to trap children."Traffickers don't hav...