HECTOR'S RIVER, Portland - One person has been taken into custody in connection with Thursday evening's $10-million drug bust in this coastal parish. One man escaped but the Area Two narcotics police are leading an investigation with th...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - A number of Rastafarians congregated in historic Sam Sharpe Square, Montego Bay yesterday to express disgust over allegations of the trimming of a young woman of the faith by members of the Jamaica Constabulary F...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves had t o receive treatment after suffering a blow to the head during protests in the capital yesterday.Initial reports indicate he was hit in the head by an object thrown by...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Questions are being raised about the protracted delay in starting construction on the new Port Maria Police Station for which ground was broken three years ago. In March 2018, then Minister of National Security Rob...

The National Arena was buzzing with activity yesterday as scores of Jamaicans turned out to get their first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. Staff photographer Karl Mclarty captured highlights.

MONTEGO BAY, St James - With almost all of its beds earmarked for COVID-19 patients already in use, and the number of people who need them increasing daily, Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) is now looking at scaling back on the treatmen...

CARIBBEAN Airlines (CAL) has begun discussions with the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) on making the transition easier for 42 Jamaicans who are among employees whose jobs are to be made redundant.The move follows the airline's...

TVJ videographer Glenford Campbell assists a weeping Kelma Foster after she collapsed at the scene where three men were killed in Stony Hill, St Andrew, on Wednesday.(Photo: Jason Tulloch)

Today is the 218th day of 2021. There are 147 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1945: During World War II, the US B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb code-named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estima...

The Ministry of Health has reported that six days into the COVID-19 vaccine blitz, which started last Saturday, more than 49,000 doses of vaccine were administered to Jamaicans 18 years and older. According to the health ministry, up t...

Scores of customers are welcoming their premium prizes, including LTE tablets and smart watches, won during Flow Jamaica's Spice Up Yuh Summa Campaign, now in its second week. The six-week campaign, which began on July 23 and is being ...

AP - Vaccine maker Novavax announced yesterday that it has asked regulators in India, Indonesia and the Philippines to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine - offering its shot to developing countries before vaccine-flush rich one...

The 36th annual CANTO Trade and Virtual Exhibition kicked-off on Wednesday, with headline sponsor C&W Communications (CWC) hosting the first day of the three-day virtual event.Held under the theme 'The New Digital Reality - 2021 and...

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie,is encouraging participants in the Youth Summer Employment Programme (YSEP) to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and to encourage others to do the same."I want to challen...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is reporting that the upgrading of its Automated Palm and Fingerprint Identification System is in progress and is slated to come on stream in September.In a recent interview with JIS News, senior di...

HANOVER - The police are keeping a close watch on sections of Kingsvale, Hanover, following the fatal shooting of two men in the community on Tuesday night. Two other men were left nursing gunshot wounds in the incident.The dead men hav...

Kimberley Waugh Skyers, who was diagnosed with the learning disorder dyslexia at age 12, initially ignored her desire to teach those who also suffered from the condition. But, after realising that her six-year-old twin girls portrayed ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) - Florida hospitals filled with COVID-19 patients are suspending elective surgeries and putting beds in conference rooms, auditoriums and cafeterias. In Georgia, medical centres are turning people away for ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) - The Ministry of Health is investigating reports that people have been selling fake COVID-19 vaccination booklets.Guyana's Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony, who made the disclosure, warned that anyone found...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, August 6, 2021: You are skilled with business and practical matters. You are also a spiritual person. People find it easy to get along with you because you are gracious, diplomatic, warm and friendly. This yea...

PARIS, France (AP) - A French constitutional c ourt yesterday validated most aspects of a new law that, starting next week, requires people to carry a special COVID-19 health pass to access cafés, restaurants, long-distance travel and...

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (AP) - The long-time pastor of a Catholic church who took nearly US$517,000 in parish funds has been sentenced to seven years in state prison.The Rev Douglas Haefner was sentenced on Tuesday and is due to start...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela says it will make a million-to-1 change in its currency soon, eliminating six zeros from prices in the local currency as hyperinflation continues to plague the South American nation.Venezuela's centra...

THE Caribbean Company yesterday got a positive response from staff for its vaccination drive, which saw dozens of employees turning up at the Girl Guides Association of Jamaica offices in St Andrew to get their COVID-19 jab.It was part ...

JAMAICAN-AMERICAN nurse Dr Sandra Lindsay, who was the first person in the United States to take the COVID-19 vaccine, comes home today for a 10-day visit, the first time since attaining overnight fame as the image of her taking the his...

LUCEA, Hanover - With COVID-19 wards crammed beyond capacity, the Noel Holmes Hospital in Hanover and the Savanna-la-Mar Public Hospital in Westmoreland are buckling under pressure from the current spike in cases. According to senior me...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - A Manchester taxi operator charged with attempted murder was remanded in police custody until September when he appeared in court yesterday morning.Senior Parish Court Judge Justice John Tyme ordered a psychiatr...

THE vibrancy of the Caribbean is slowly melting away. The culprit: climate change.In fact, on the heels of a World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) warning that the region will become the "most at-risk tourist destination" in the world...

RESIDENTS of Stony Hill in St Andrew fear that a triple murder in the community yesterday, believed to be a reprisal for the killing of 58-year-old Dave Nooks in the community on Monday evening, will intensify the deadly violence betwee...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Unlike some parts of the island, the latest vaccination drive in St Ann has gone better than expected in many communities."With each day there are more persons than those who would have made appointments. In St Ann's...

TOKYO, Japan - It is not often someone finishes one place outside the medal podium and is extremely satisfied with his/her result.That's the message Janieve Russell sent when she spoke to the media following her fourth-place finish in t...

Lincoln Thaxter, custos of Portland, lights a candle during a church service and candle lighting ceremony yesterday, in remembrance of Jamaicans who died from COVID-19. The service took place at St Theresa Roman Catholic Church in Viney...

Today is the 217th day of 2021. There are 148 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1962: At midnight the Union Jack flag is lowered and the new flag of Independent Jamaica unfurled. OTHER EVENTS1772: In St Petersburg, rulers of Russi...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - With almost 46 per cent of bed spaces now occupied, health authorities here are hoping that COVID-19 cases requiring hospitalisation in the southern region remain minimal.Regional technical director at the South...

THE Climate Prediction Center of the United States-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has warned that Jamaica, and the rest of region, is still projected to face an above-average hurricane season.In its annual ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Coach of Manning's School's under-16 football team Garey Spence was among those who prayed that 17-year-old Kavian Richards would beat COVID-19, recover from a neck injury and walk again. Though his prayer...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa F Etienne yesterday said that 617,000 indigenous people have been infected with the novel coronavirus in the Americas and urged...

STONEHENGE, St James - For many members of this rural community their main source of income comes from growing and selling pineapples so they were thrilled at the recent return of the Pineapple Festival and Business Fair.Last Friday, ev...

AFTER decades of negotiating, Jamaica's micro financing institutions and the Government have reached common ground on how the institutions should operate as a source of loan funding for micro- to medium-sized businesses and other cash-s...

JAMES HILL, Clarendon - Shaquila Gunzell dreams of having her own art gallery, having her work on show in museums around the world - and that's just the tip of the iceberg."I have no limits for my future. I would love to open an art gal...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - With nearly 200 million people known to have had the novel coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday it was deeply concerned by the unknown numbers who may still be suffering with long C...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) - The Mexican Government sued United States gun manufacturers and distributors yesterday in US federal court, arguing that their negligent and illegal commercial practices have unleashed tremendous bloodshed in...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The Biden Administration is taking the first steps toward requiring nearly all foreign visitors to the United States to be vaccinated for the coronavirus, a White House official said yesterday.The re...

ALBANY, United States (AP) - A majority of state Assembly members support beginning impeachment proceedings against Governor Andrew Cuomo if he doesn't resign over investigative findings that he sexually harassed at least 11 women, acco...

FOLLOWING the brazen gun slaying of her brother in Stony Hill on Monday afternoon, one woman has questioned the lack of witnesses coming forward with information on a number of murders and shootings committed in broad daylight in the co...

BUFF BAY, Portland - Four Haitian men who arrived at Spring Gardens in Portland yesterday morning have been given accommodation where they are being cared for. The men appeared to be very weak when their boat washed ashore, according to...

LLUIDAS VALE, St Catherine - Police have nabbed two alleged gunmen and are searching for a third following an intense gun battle at dawn Tuesday in this once peaceful town. The clash between cops and three gunmen took place a chain away...

A small fee given to youngsters who wipe motor vehicle windscreens at traffic lights is an insufficient act of appreciation for Sheleisha Kassie. That pushed her to create Squeegee Academy International in June, which she said will help...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Although grateful that the Mandeville Regional Hospital received US$40,000 worth of supplies for orthopaedics and paediatrics, Chief Executive Officer Alwyn Miller says the facility is overwhelmed by the high nu...

INVERNESS, St Ann - Debbie Smith clutched her stomach tightly and muttered a few words of affirmation as tears flowed freely down her cheeks yesterday. Her actions were an attempt to ease the pain of losing her youngest son, 18-year-old...