Some 200 health-care workers have responded to the health and wellness ministry's Mayday last week for retired and active nurses and doctors to participate in "sessional service" in public health facilities as COVID-19 infections and d...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) President Winston Smith has asked for further private sector assistance with the donation of tablets and other tools to aid online teaching and learning as schools prepare to s...

More than 70 per cent of the inmates in the island's penal system have refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine despite repeated offers from the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) for them to be vaccinated.The Jamaica Observer has co...

MOUNT SALEM, St James - A whopping 99 per cent of COVID-19 patients admitted to the four public hospitals in western Jamaica in the last three weeks were not vaccinated, according to Dr Delroy Fray, clinical coordinator for the Wester...

Quick action by one of the occupants of a house at Teak Way in Barbican Terrace, St Andrew, yesterday resulted in the property being spared major damage when a fire broke out in one of the bedrooms, destroying most of the items inside.N...

Well over 1,100 Jamaicans yesterday received COVID-19 vaccines at Flow Jamaica's vaccination blitz held at Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.Although the blitz was held for Flow staff, their family, friends, registered employees of ...

Hundreds of Jamaicans turned up at COVID-19 vaccination sites across the country yesterday, placing strain on the health authorities' ability to efficiently administer the vaccines and resulting in people being diverted from the Nationa...

The Jamaica Umbrella Group of Churches (JUGC) is staging a National Day of Prayer and Fasting today in light of the rising cases of COVID-19 in the country.Being held under the theme 'Living Wisely: Exercising Sound Judgement in Comple...

Today is the 243rd day of 2021. There are 122 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1971: Cuba terminates the airlift that had brought 246,000 Cuban refugees from Havana to Florida since December 1965. OTHER EVENTS1290: Jews are exile...

Almost a month before Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton signed the import permit to allow stocks of Ivermectin into Jamaica, two foreign medical research groups wrote the Jamaican Government urging use of the anti-para...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (CMC) - The Court Martial of Suriname yesterday confirmed the 20-year jail sentence that had been imposed on former Suriname President Desi Bouterse for the murder of 15 people while he had ruled the Dutch-speaking ...

SA GICOR Group Jamaica, in partnership with the Private Sector Vaccine Initiative (PSVI), successfully rolled out day one of its 'Vax Day' programme last Friday.According to Sagicor, the initiative saw more than 350 of the financial con...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) said yesterday that it will legally challenge the decision by the authorities to lock out nurses and other government employees who have not been vaccinated or refuse to ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, August 31, 2021: People are attracted to you because you have a strong personality and you are very charming. You have excellent social skills. You also have strong values when it comes to security and stabil...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - America's 20-year war in Afghanistan entered its final hours yesterday with the last Americans seeking to be evacuated and the US military preparing to end its airlift and depart the Taliban-controll...

NEW ORLEANS, United States (AP) - Rescuers yesterday set out in hundreds of boats and helicopters to reach people trapped by flood waters, while utility repair crews rushed in after a furious Hurricane Ida swamped the Louisiana coast an...

THE Ministry of Education, Youth and Information says teachers should, by September 2, start receiving payments for summer school work."Teachers have not yet been paid for duties performed during summer school, but it must be noted tha...

Bishop Garfield Daley of Faith Chapel of Faith Apostolic Ministries preaches his sermon yesterday for his online audience on Facebook and YouTube at the St Andrew-based church. Churches, in the lastest orders under the Disaster Risk Man...

Cathalena Thompson, a resident of Cassia Park in St Andrew, makes use of yesterday's no movement day to clean up gravel and dirt on the road near her home left by last Wednesday's heavy rain.(Photo: Garfield Robinson) 

PRIVATE hospitals across the island have expressed interest in administering COVID-19 vaccines at their facilities and will move one step closer today to realising this goal when health-care workers from these hospitals will be involved...

THOUSANDS of fully vaccinated Jamaicans 60 years and over who applied for the Conditional Cash Transfer for the Vaccinated Grant will receive payments in a few days. "We expect [$10,000] payments to be made by the first week in Septembe...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Ministry of Tourism is expected to settle soon on suitable providers for the Jamaica Cares Insurance Programme, the first end-to-end insurance programme for visitors to the island."The Jamaica Cares Programme...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Attorney-at-law Ralph Ramkarran has weighed in on the vaccination requirements instituted by the Government and says that these measures are lawful.Guyana's Gazetted COVID-19 Emergency Measures (No 20), which ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - With almost 145 confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients, Mandeville Regional Hospital (MRH) has resorted to placing some of those patients on mattresses and makeshift bed spaces where available. At the same ti...

SOME students at The University of The West Indies (UWI), Mona, have expressed support for the institution's decision that people living on its halls of residence be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, while others were concerned about c...

MINISTER of Justice Delroy Chuck says his ministry is seeking to have additional simple matters shifted from the parish courts to the Lay Magistrates' Court.He said arrangements would be made to facilitate transfer of the matters follow...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) - Hurricane Ida blasted ashore yesterday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US, blowing off roofs and reversing the flow of the Mississippi River as it rushed from the Louisiana coast toward N...

MISS Jamaica Festival Queen 2021 Dr Dominique Reid has launched a project in Manchester designed to enhance oral health care and hygiene among youngsters and, in the process, preserve their smiles.The initiative, titled: Project Health...

THE Restorative Justice Programme is reporting successes in resolution of minor offences where offenders are referred to the programme for dispute resolution, according to Oral Taylor, August Town restorative justice parish officer for ...

DOMINIC McIntyre is encouraging young people to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus.McIntyre, who is now fully vaccinated, told JIS Newsthat taking the vaccine was his way of protecting himself."I had done some research on vacc...

E-Learning Jamaica Limited (e-LJAM) is encouraging students who received tablets under the Government's Tablets in School Programme and the Own Your Own Device Initiative to care for and protect the devices. "The devices should be used...

Tahje Wallen, executive director, Youth Education Association, poses with some of the children who were treated during the association's first annual back-to-school treat. Some 180 children in the Waltham Gardens Community from the prim...

Today is the 242nd day of 2021. There are 123 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1983: Guion S Bluford Jr becomes the first black American astronaut to travel in space, blasting off aboard the Challenger.OTHER EVENTS30 BC: Cleopatra...

JEREMIE, Haiti (AP) - US military aircraft were yesterday ferrying food, tarps, and other material into southern Haiti amid a shift in the international relief effort to focus on helping people in the areas hardest hit by the recent ear...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A United States drone strike yesterday blew up a vehicle carrying "multiple suicide bombers" from Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate before they could attack the ongoing military evacuation at Kabul's intern...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Members of the regional grouping, the Caribbean Community (Caricom), have pledged financial donations to help Haiti in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake earlier this month.During a special session of the ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, August 30, 2021: You are a good friend to others because you are generous and thoughtful. You like to help people, even if you micromanage them. You are attracted to people who are interesting and stimulating....

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Audie Myers, People's National Party councillor for the Siloah Division in St Elizabeth North Eastern, has seen the crucial Windsor Bridge and road blocked by flood water many times.But he insists that, to his...

Two litres of blood, constant pain, trouble walking, a fractured spine, gunshot wounds to the abdomen, and the possibility that the results of his injuries "are likely to be permanent", spelling uncertainty for his career, comprise the ...

Jehovah's Witnesses were not among the five major religious groups that two weeks ago gave support to the Government's COVID-19 vaccination programme; however, the millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian be...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Justice Minister Delroy Chuck says he is frustrated at the lengthy delay in building a new courthouse for Mandeville due to cumbersome Government procurement procedures. Chuck, who in 2019 wanted to see the ne...

CARIBBEAN Love Now has donated $5 million to Food For the Poor's (FFP) campaign to provide relief to Haiti in the aftermath of the August 17 earthquake that devastated a section of that Caribbean country. Estimates are that about 1.2 mi...

The crisis created by the novel coronavirus pandemic worsened locally yesterday as oxygen supplies fell critically low, leaving hospitals struggling to care for critically ill COVID-19 patients, some of whom have been placed in surgica...

Despite needing monetary assistance for heart surgery, record producer and philanthropist Claude "Big Stone" Sinclair decided to lend a helping hand to 72-year-old George Williams, the mentally ill man who was incarcerated for 50 years...

Veteran educator and entrepreneur Pedro Hall could easily be described as a man ahead of his time.In 2018 he began to craft the template for a group of schools that would be strictly online, catering to children across Jamaica's 14 pari...

Let's pray for brother Al MillerReverend Al Miller is a man whom I love and admire.His life in religion has been quite colourful, at times humorously controversial; and lately other notes have hit the stage that again command our attent...

A high school student under the age of 16 is now facing a dilemma after her plan to get vaccinated and return to face-to-face learning in just a few days was shot down by her father, who is anti-vaccine.The father is adamant that he won...

The local book industry is now facing several challenges, including revenue loss and waning interest among parents regarding purchasing textbooks, as the effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic spreads beyond health and the economy.Ke...

For the past three months Colleen Roper struggled with not being able to bury her eldest son, 23-year-old Sanjay "Neiko" Davis. Roper had been traumatised by her inability to source the money to bury her son, and this was made worse by...

LAST week Nicola Levy had one wish - to come up with $250,000 for emergency eye surgery to restore her sight.Fifty-two-year-old Levy, a former dance instructor known to her friends as Nicky, has glaucoma which was treated in 2013. Recen...