Children 12 and older will be prioritised for the first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines set to arrive in the island next Tuesday, August 17.Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton last evening revealed that Jamaica is set ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Verona White was hoping that by now, eight months after her son was shot dead, someone would have been held responsible. She is still awaiting answers. According to a police report, Delroy Trowers was in a taxi on hi...

Commuters using vehicles in the privately-run public transportation system will start paying 15 per cent more starting on Monday, the Transport Authority announced yesterday.This means that commuters using route taxis and "Coaster" buse...

A number of principals at non-traditional high schools say they are worried that they may have to spend the first few months of the new academic year conducting interventions to remediate the competence and mastery deficiencies they env...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Many school administrators in western Jamaica are confident that they are ready if COVID-19 is tamed long enough for face-to-face classes to resume in September. Most are eager to have students return to t...

While insisting that the Government does not have land or money sweeteners to entice Jamaicans to take COVID-19 vaccines, like some other countries, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday said linkages are being ma...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - After a more than 16-month hiatus because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, cruise ships are expected to resume calling on Jamaica next Monday.In fact, between Monday, August 16 and Tuesday, October 26, cruise p...

Young men assist the police after this service vehicle stalled Wednesday on Maxfield Avenue inSt Andrew. (Photo: Garfield Robinson) 

Today is the 225th day of 2021. There are 140 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2006: On his 80th birthday, Fidel Castro cautions Cubans that he faces a long recovery from surgery. His younger brother, Raul, makes a first public ap...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - After an almost two-month grace period, the Manchester Municipal Corporation has ramped up its enforcement efforts to clamp down on various breaches.Deputy mayor of Mandeville and councillor of the Mile Gully Di...

The battle for lottery dollars is heating up again with newcomers to the local betting scene, Izizzi, firing the latest salvo.Izizzi is now offering Jamaicans more returns on their bets by increasing the winnings of its popular single ...

A man who made arrangements to have a television set airfreighted from the United States to Jamaica is now angry and frustrated after he received the product in a severely damaged state.Steve Foster told the Jamaica Observer that he pa...

BELMONT, Westmoreland - A banana tree residents planted in a pothole on the main road of this community was enough to get the authorities to fix the gaping hole as work began yesterday and is expected to be completed by next week. "My c...

THE Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) has added a new utility vessel to its fleet named Jamaica III, which is the first of its kind, replacing the 42-year-old Jamaica II vessel.The 39 metres long utility vessel, which is 12 metres longer ...

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) - The Opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has condemned what it said were disrespectful comments made by newly appointed Minister for External Affairs, International Trade, Civil Aviation and Diaspora Affairs ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - A policeman from the Valencia Criminal Investigations Department has been arrested after allegedly making threats to kill his wife and their two-year-old daughter.According to a statement from the Trinida...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban captured Afghanistan's third-largest city and a strategic provincial capital near Kabul yesterday, further squeezing the country's embattled Government just weeks before the end of the American mili...

OREGON, United States (AP) - Volunteers and county employees set up cots and stacked hundreds of bottles of water in an air-conditioned cooling centre in a vacant building in Portland, Oregon, one of many such places being set up as the...

SAVANNAH CROSS, Clarendon - A four-year-old child fled her house in the early hours of yesterday morning to get help after her mother's throat was slashed in this deep-rural community. Dead is Danecia Fearon, who would have turned 27 ne...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Former Member of Parliament for St Elizabeth North Eastern Kern Spencer says he is giving thought but is yet to make up his mind regarding calls for him to contest for chairmanship of the Opposition People's N...

WITH COVID-19 cases cramming hospitals islandwide, attention is being drawn to the "overwhelmed" state of the island's already limited intensive care units (ICU), with doctors now more than ever being forced to make life and death decis...

A member of the Ganja Growers and Producers Association of Jamaica is calling for cops to stop destroying cannabis plants in the current economic climate, after armed men believed to be members of the police force were accused of choppi...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - President of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) Janet Silvera is recommending that Government construct a second all-boys' school in St James to add to the more than century-old Cornwall Col...

REPEATED warnings by local health officials that the latest wave of the novel coronavirus ravaging the island could lead to a shortage of beds in public hospitals have become a painful and life-threatening reality for almost 30 people a...

"If you're willing to learn, they're willing to train. At Sandals Resorts, they're just waiting for you to put up your sail so they can apply the wind."That is how Sandals South Coast's newly appointed Guest Experience Manager Marland ...

Today is the 224th day of 2020. There are 141 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1961: The East German Parliament votes to erect a wall separating east Berlin from the western part. It goes up the same night. OTHER EVENTS1499: Turk...

MINISTER of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change Pearnel Charles Jr says that Jamaica is well advanced in its preparations for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). The minister note...

MURRAY MOUNT, St Ann - Andrew Matthews has still not recovered from a fire that ravaged his house and turned his life upside down last December. The farmer came home to the devastating sight of his four-bedroom house engulfed in flames....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The US Government said yesterday that it will deliver nearly 837,000 Pfizer vaccines to Caribbean nations as the region with limited resources struggle with a spike in COVID-19 cases amid violent anti-vaccin...

LOCAL manufacturer of animal feed, Nutramix, and the United States-based Gold Mine Boers International have received high praises for the recently concluded GOAT seminar at the Denbigh Showground in Clarendon.About 50 small ruminant far...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday announced major international trials of three drugs to find out whether they improve the condition of hospitalised COVID-19 patients.Artesunate, imatinib and infl...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban seized three more Afghan provincial capitals and a local army headquarters yesterday, completing a blitz across the country's north-east and giving them control of two-thirds of the nation as the US...

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) - All teachers in California will have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly virus tests, the state's governor announced Wednesday, as authorities grapple with exploding infection rates.T...

The Jamaican father of one of the men shot dead at a party in Brooklyn, New York, early Sunday morning believes that the killers targeted his son after seeing him in a photo with Donald "Likkle Danny" Nash, the alleged leader of the Da...

MORANT BAY, St Thomas - For young athletes from Morant Bay High School (MBHS) who dream of sporting glory, a chance to welcome home freshly minted Olympic gold medallist Hansle Parchment has made them even more determined to shine."[His...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - As the number of COVID-19 cases continue to increase, operations at Mandeville Regional Hospital have been scaled down to emergencies after the facility exceeded its COVID-19 ward capacity.Senior medical officer...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - For 153 years the girls of Seaside Primary have outshone the boys in all major exams. This year's Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exam was different for the school nestled in Hector's River overlooking the Caribbean ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Chairman of the Mandeville Ministers Association and minister at the Ridgemont United Church, Rev Anthony Chung, says he is encouraging his congregation to get vaccinated against the infectious novel coronavirus...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - With news surfacing that the parish now has the country's highest rate (26 per cent) of increase in COVID-19 cases, some Westmoreland residents are becoming increasingly worried. The numbers increased from...

More than half of the 143 doctors who were last month left jobless after their contracts with State-run facilities were not renewed have moved on to brighter prospects, even as the Government - now faced with caseloads which outmatch m...

The British Government has agreed to foot the bill to quarantine Jamaicans who were last night deported to the island as fears mount that they could be carrying the worrying Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus.Yesterday, efforts were m...

Today is the 223rd day of 2021. There are 142 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2010: Reasearchers say two ancient animal bones from Ethiopia show signs of butchering by human ancestors, moving back the earliest evidence for the us...

SOME of the young men who wipe windscreens at major intersections in the Corporate Area, in order to put bread on their tables, are happy with offers of skills training and are now looking forward to completing courses and earning certi...

Dear Mr Brown:I heard that the Canadian borders are now open for US travellers. I am wondering when those from other countries can enter as well.- CTDear CT,Due to the pandemic, the Canadian Government had prohibited American citizens a...

Q. What can I do on a B1/B2 visa?A: The B1/B2 visa consists of a "B1" component that covers travel for professional reasons and a "B2" component that covers travel for personal reasons.With the B1 component, prospective travellers may c...

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Michelle Thomas is proposing amendments to the Domestic Violence Act to provide more protection for men who are being abused in their homes. Although Thomas said having the legislation is a guideline for rule of law and ...

THE islands municipal corporations raked in $204.7 billion last year for building/planning applications.The estimated value of applications approved was $145.2 billion, while those that were still being processed at the close of the yea...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Caribbean countries are monitoring the progress of a weather system that was likely to become a tropical storm last night.The Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said that tropical storm warnings hav...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed issued a call yesterday for all eligible civilians to join the armed forces as fighting rages in multiple regions of Africa's second most populous nation."Now is the righ...

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, facing possible impeachment over sexual harassment claims from 11 women and mounting pressure to quit from fellow Democrats, announced his resignation yesterday. The 63-yea...