SOME Jamaicans yesterday said they expected an extension of the no-movement days due to the surge in COVID-19 cases but argued that the Government should implement new initiatives to assist the needy.A produce vendor at the Half-Way-Tre...

If you are in arrears with your water bill, a debt collector may be knocking on your door soon.That's the word from the National Water Commission (NWC), which yesterday revealed that it plans to sell a portion of debt owed by its custo...

NEW FOREST, Manchester - Farmers in Manchester and St Elizabeth are counting their losses following crop devastation by wind and heavy rain associated with tropical storms Grace and Ida in recent weeks. They are predicting higher prices...

THE Opposition People's National Party (PNP) yesterday threw the blame of the COVID-19 crisis being experienced by the country at the feet of Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, and called for his sacking."The minister of health must...

NEW YORK, USA - A section of a popular street in the New Jersey city of Patterson, United States, is to be renamed Jamaica Way at a ceremony planned for tomorrow as part of celebrations to mark the American Labour Day weekend."The renam...

THE Real Estate Board is getting tough on registered dealers who have failed to complete and submit its Anti-Money Laundering Risk Assessment Survey Questionnaire which is designed to reduce money laundering in the sector. Thirteen real...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness yesterday denied that it had neglected to provide supply forecasts to medical oxygen supplier IGL and said it has revised its policy directive to ensure diversification in sourcing the life-saving pr...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Even as Black River Hospital mourns the death of a health-care worker, Chief Executive Officer Diana Brown Miller says the facility is coping as best as it can with the current surge of COVID-19 cases. She sa...

SCOTIABANK Jamaica on Wednesday hosted COVID-19 vaccination drives in Kingston and Montego Bay where more than 200 people received both first and second doses of the jab.The bank, in a release yesterday, said it has also implemented sev...

Today is the 246th day of 2021. There are 119 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT:1939: Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland; in a radio address, Britain's Kin...

REGIONAL technology company Growth Tech Limited has inked a multimillion-dollar deal with development company Real Equity Limited. The agreement will see the outfitting of all data and network for the Real Equity's various development p...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green says the country's Praedial Larceny Prevention Unit (PLPU) has been reaping success recently, in curtailing acts of praedial larceny across the country."We saw ov...

SALT MARSH, Trelawny - Everald Warmington, the minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, on Wednesday announced the allocation of $324 million to rehabilitate roads in northern Trelawny, which he de...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Residents of Three Miles River in central Westmoreland are asking for a permanent fix to the flooding that has plagued them for decades. Mere drain cleaning, they insist, will not suffice. Each rainy seaso...

THE Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is reporting that only a quarter of citizens in the Caribbean and Latin America are fully immunised, and that for many access to vaccines is still months away."While every country in our regio...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - A stunned US East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage and continuing calls for rescue yesterday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain...

GEORGIA, United States (AP) - The novel coronavirus pandemic has created a nurse staffing crisis that is forcing many US hospitals to pay top dollar to get the help they need to handle the crush of patients this summer.Nurses, health le...

BEIJING, China (AP) - China's Government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters yesterday to promote "revolutionary culture", broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality.Pr...

FLORIDA, United States. (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said yesterday that Virgin Galactic cannot launch anyone into space until an investigation is complete into a mishap that occurred during July's flight with founde...

EXECUTIVE Chairman of Sandals Resorts International (SRI) Adam Stewart says the Caribbean's leading hotel chain will be forever grateful to late marketing icon Adrian Robinson, the man who came up with the Sandals name. Stewart, paying ...

THE Advertising Agencies Association of Jamaica has added its voice to those mourning the death of marketing and advertising veteran, Adrian Robinson. According to the association's president, Arnold JJ Foote, the passing of Robinson is...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has cautioned sectoral interests which have been trying to push the Government to make decisions that affect the whole society."I think that after this episode there will have to be a greater balance and un...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness is not happy that only 40,000 students, 12 years and older, have taken the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. There are approximately 204,000 high school students in Jamaica.Responding to questions from the Jamaica O...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Residents of this parish are at their wits' end after being plagued for years by water woes.The most recent cause for concern is the inadequacy of the Bullstord treatment plant which serves six divisions i...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has urged Jamaicans not to panic despite the sharp spike in the COVID-19 numbers in recent days.Up to Tuesday the island had recorded 68,482 cases of the virus with 1,549 deaths and 18,103 active cases.But ...

IGL Limited yesterday revealed that the country's health authorities, for months, neglected to provide forecasts of the island's need for medical oxygen despite repeated requests from the company.The stunning revelation has shed light o...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Farmers in the Bog Hole community in the northern end of this parish are avid gamblers. They often lose but they're hooked, ploughing and planting their fields again and again even after their crops are totally deci...

THE House of Representatives is expected to resume sitting on Tuesday, September 14.Both the House of Representatives and the Senate normally go on a summer break close to the end of July, and return by mid-September. This year Members ...

THEY may not come readily to mind when one thinks of heroes on the front line of the COVID-19 fight, but the cleaning staff in overburdened hospitals wear their capes just as well as doctors and nurses.Forty-eight-year-old Michelle Bail...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Stakeholders of two flood-prone areas in this south-central parish are cautiously watching the rising water levels following recent heavy rain associated with tropical storms Grace and Ida.The main road leadin...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding on Tuesday addressed the nation at what he described as "a very perilous and frightening time for our nation. This is a lightly edited version of that address.It is clear that our health-care system has r...

MINISTER of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke has described as an "unfortunate innuendo" questions rehashed since last weekend about the disbursement of US$670 million from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Worl...

HIGHGATE, St Mary - Arlene Thomas is looking forward to her grandson maintaining his perfect attendance record for online classes when the new school year begins. Now that fibre optic cable is being installed in her community, she think...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Deputy mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Richard Vernon, has underscored the role of municipal corporations in local governance. Speaking during a 'Let's Talk' virtual forum on Monday, Councillor Vernon noted that...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - The National Works Agency (NWA) on Monday closed the eight kilometres of roadway between Lionel Town and Mitchell Town in Southern Clarendon after a culvert collapsed in the vicinity of DaCosta, significantly underm...

Today is the 245th day of 2021. There are 120 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1666: Great Fire of London burns for five days, nearly destroying the city, including St Paul's Cathedral, but claims few lives. OTHER EVENTS1773: War...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - In the nearly two months since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated, Haiti has suffered a devastating earthquake and a drenching tropical storm, the twin natural disasters deflecting attention from the ...

Attorney-at-law Gavin Goffe has sided with Jamaican Bar Association President Alexander Williams in calling for the Government to seek the attorney general's advice and state its position on mandatory vaccines for workers amidst controv...

Education Minister Fayval Williams yesterday reiterated that schools will not be able to hold face-to-face classes at the start of the new academic year scheduled for next week, even as the Government pushes its COVID-19 vaccination pro...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - As one nurse likened her job on the front lines of the COVID-19 fight to a suicide mission and wondered whether it was time to throw in the towel after yet another colleague died on the job, the head of ...

THE Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) yesterday described late former director and board chairman, Adrian Robinson, as a forward thinker and a marketing genius.Robinson, 87, a former radio broadcaster and advertising executive, died in hospit...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Relatives of an elderly man from the Longwood section of this parish are in mourning after he fell to his death in a gully that runs alongside his yard. The incident, which happened about 6 o'clock on Monday evening...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Having arrested only four people in the past two weeks, the St Ann police are pleased with the level of compliance in the parish during the six no-movement days implemented so far. "We had great compliance. Most of...

SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Patients awaiting surgery at Spanish Town Hospital for weeks are facing a new degree of worry about outsiders infecting them with the dreaded novel coronavirus.The affected patients have been stranded at t...

THE Island Traffic Authority (ITA) is to join the Road Safety Unit (RSU) and the police in an effort to restrict the growing number of road deaths, especially at nights.Director of the authority, Kenute Hare, says that he is aware that ...

Motorists and pedestrians say they fear for their lives when traversing the Gloucester section of Victoria main road in Thompson Pen, Clarendon.Following heavy rains from Tropical Strom Ida last week, more than half of the road crumble...

Dear Mr Brown,I would like to know whether an employer in Canada can make it mandatory for employees to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Wouldn't that infringe on constitutional rights of the employees? I am interested in migrating there. How...

Today is the 244th day of 2021. There are 121 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1957: The worst railway disaster in Jamaica's history, known as the Kendal crash, takes place. OTHER EVENTS1494: France's King Charles VIII invades It...

THEIR response is described as immediate, calculated, and direct, and is carried out in an effective manner. They are the trained investigators assigned to the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) First Responder Programm...

Hector's River , Portland - The accolades keep coming at Seaside Primary School, one of two Portland schools that bucked the trend with boys outperforming girls in this year's Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exams. Past student Maureen O'Con...