THE University of the West Indies (UWI) yesterday announced the appointment of Professor Paula Morgan as the new director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS). Professor Morgan's appointment took effect on August 1...

THE Victoria Mutual Group (VM), in partnership with the Private Sector Vaccine Initiative (PSVI) and the Ministry of Health & Wellness, staged a COVID-19 vaccination blitz on Saturday, which saw close to 500 people being inoculated ...

THE Jamaica Customs Agency has embarked on the second phase of its Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) programme with the recent launch of the exporter component.The AEO programme is a supply chain security programme that deals with impl...

STONEHENGE, St James - In the quiet, rural community of Stonehenge, a one-man battle to save the environmental has raged for four years. Sixty-five-year-old Basil Edwards collects plastic waste and transforms it into craft, jewellery, a...

Today is the 251st day of 2021. There are 114 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1992: Nelson Mandela calls for the removal of the homeland ruler whose troops killed 24 protesters, sparking a major confrontation between black and wh...

THE National Family Planning Board (NFPB) is appealing to residents in gated communities to facilitate interviewers when they come to conduct the 2021 Reproductive Health Survey (RHS).The survey is being conducted by the Statistical Ins...

THERE is no charge to tourism workers to participate in the Tourism Workers Vaccination Drive, according to Clifton Reader, co-chair of the Tourism Vaccination Task Force.He was responding to reports in the local news media that the wor...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) - At least 17 patients died after floods swept through a hospital in central Mexico, disrupting the power supply and oxygen therapy, authorities said yesterday.The facility in the town of Tula in Hidalgo state ...

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) - The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is assisting The Bahamas's Tourism Development Corporation (TDC) and Ministry of Tourism and Aviation in developing certifications systems that will be used to strengthen...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban yesterday announced an all-male interim Government for Afghanistan, stacked with veterans of their hard-line rule from the 1990s and the 20-year battle against the US-led coalition, a move that see...

NEW JERSEY, United States (AP) - Pointing accusingly at climate change, President Joe Biden toured areas affected by deadly north-east flood damage yesterday and said he was thinking about all the families who suffered "profound" losses...

LONDON, England (AP) - UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced yesterday how he plans to keep a key election promise to grapple with the rocketing cost of long-term care for Britain's growing older population. However, to do it, he br...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, September 8, 2021:You are confident and levelheaded. People admire you because you are trustworthy, loyal, hardworking and reliable. (Ironically, you are a busy thinker who resists routine.) This year you w...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - A freak accident that claimed the life of a tractor operator at Noranda Bauxite company in Discovery Bay, St Ann, has left his colleagues stunned and in anguish.Fifty-three-year-old Mark Wint died last Thursday after...

A number of essential service workers in Kingston and St Andrew yesterday expressed satisfaction with being able to walk in to fast-food restaurants and make purchases as the country went through the second of this week's three no-movem...

A group of independent public health providers who say they have treated some 300 COVID-19 patients between the ages of 18 and 104, without any dying, is urging the Government to lay off what they call oxygen-centric care which they arg...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) Chairman Wayne Chen says Jamaica should be vaccinating at least 15,000 people daily and push to have 60 per cent of the population inoculated three months ahead of the M...

Opposition spokesman on commerce, science, and technology Hugh Graham says very little has been done over the summer holiday to improve the education system's technological readiness and ability to facilitate the continuation of online ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Despite Jamaica having recorded more than 1,600 COVID-19 related deaths since the onset of the pandemic, including more than 350 in August, veteran funeral director Calvin Lyn says there is no issue with storage...

Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) President Winston Smith says the first day of the new academic year showed that while there are still major problems with connectivity across the island, there have been some improvements to the syst...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - President of the Jamaica Association of Certified Embalmers (JACE) and Funeral Directors Calvin Lyn is calling for changes to be made at the Registrar General's Department (RGD) for the agency to issue copies of...

One of Jamaica's leading corporate entities, Red Stripe, as part of the Private Sector Vaccine Initiative (PSVI), will host 'Trust the Facts, Get the Vax' - a vaccination drive on tomorrow for companies along the Spanish Town Road indus...

Today is the 250th day of 2021. There are 115 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1996: Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip; he dies six days later. OTHER EVENTS1599: Britain's Earl of Essex signs...

THE Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is now searching for a new general manager as Heather Pinnock has resigned the post after just over two years.News of Pinnock's resignation, which takes effect October 31, was circulated to UDC st...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) - Business establishments in Guyana yesterday began implementing new measures outlined by the Government, including that anyone entering public buildings, as well as private businesses and places of worship, mu...

GETTING their lives back on track was exactly what Kingston-based administrator, Devon and Manchester-based businesswoman, Sheryl had in mind when they entered the Digicel 'Mek Wi Rich Togeddah' Summer promotion. The two are among the f...

ST George's, Grenada, (CMC) - Grenada recorded seven deaths from the novel coronavirus pandemic in a 24-hour period which ended yesterday and appealed to nationals to get vaccinated, noting that none of those who died had been vaccinate...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chilean health authorities yesterday approved the use of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine for children six years and older, the first Latin American country to take that step. Heriberto García, director of Chile's Pu...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - The European Union's drug regulator said yesterday that it has started an expedited evaluation on whether to recommend a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech.The European Medicines A...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla (AP) - A former United States Marine sharpshooter accused of invading the home of apparent strangers in Florida and fatally shooting a woman, her three-month-old baby, and two others was ordered held without bail du...

The Union of Clerical, Administrative, and Supervisory Employees (UCASE), adamant that the Government has stood by while dozens of workers have been ousted from their jobs because they refuse to be COVID-19-vaccinated, is calling for th...

TOLL GATE, Clarendon - Convinced that work being done on the Clarendon leg of the new highway is behind the recent flooding of their homes, residents of Duke Street in the Toll Gate community last Thursday staged a loud but peaceful pro...

ADMINISTRATORS at Kingston College (KC) last week expressed delight that a one-day COVID-19 vaccination blitz at the high school's North Street campus was a success, moving students one step closer to a return to physical classrooms and...

The number of Jamaicans who have taken the COVID-19 vaccine is inching closer to 600,000 as the Government continues to beseech people to take the jab to stave off the dire consequences of the worst symptoms of the virus.The health and ...

AN expert at Joseph M Still (JMS) Burn Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, where Hanover burn victim Nicola Clarke was flown for surgery in May this year, has underscored the importance of having an equipped burn unit locallyto save lives.Accor...

LITITZ, St Elizabeth - Sixty-year-old Selwyn Myers is grateful that his life was spared during the recent passage of Tropical Storm Ida in what he described as a "freak storm" which battered his family house, removing most of the roof.H...

Christina Williams, still basking in her selection to the European Union Youth Sounding Board, has one message for her fellow Jamaicans - "Take a chance on yourself because you never know who could be watching and could give you an oppo...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - It has been months since 70-year-old mechanic Egbert Wright, from Darling Spring in St Catherine, vowed to take the COVID-19 vaccine.But Wright, who lives alone, believes he is only one of many older Jamaicans w...

Former Prime Minister PJ Patterson has welcomed the planned Africa-Caribbean Summit to be hosted by Kenya, on September 7.Patterson, the statesman in residence at the Patterson Centre for Africa Caribbean Advocacy, said the summit is "...

JN Bank executive Steve Distant shared his own experience with COVID-19 as he encouraged the island's teachers who have not yet been vaccinated to take the jab."I had every single symptom you could think about, such as headaches, loss o...

A local government official in St Elizabeth who is a member of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has blasted the Ministry of Transport and Mining for repeatedly failing to allocate enough money to repair a road that was badly damage...

Education Minister Fayval Williams has promised to intensify efforts to reach students who the ministry did not make contact with last year after the novel coronavirus pandemic forced school doors shut.The ministry had rolled out a summ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Seven-year-old Melique Bailey has had enough. He's tired of sleeping in his father's taxi and he wants life to return to the way it was before fire ravaged the house he shared with his parents and three-year-old brot...

Today is the 249th day of 2021. There are 116 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2001: The first Air France Concorde plane in more than a year is cleared for commercial flights. The carrier's fleet had been grounded after a Concorde ...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AFP) - Guinean special forces seized power in a coup yesterday, arresting the president and imposing an indefinite curfew in the poor West African country."We have decided, after having taken the president, to dissolve ...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AFP) - Guinea, where a junta seized power in a coup yesterday, arresting President Alpha Conde, is an impoverished West African country despite a wealth of natural resources.Authoritarian regimesThe former French colony...

There is fear among some pregnant couples that taking the COVID-19 vaccine could harm their unborn children, as the health and wellness ministry ramps up its efforts to get most of the population inoculated. This, officials believe, is ...

Holness should take a vacationIf there was any doubt about the need for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to take a rest and recharge for further work ahead, that evaporated last Monday after he addressed the nation.For it seems that the pr...

The traffic check being conducted by this cop on Maxfield Avenue recently was definitely a chance encounter so the cab driver's message on his window visor - Psalm 27 vs 1-2: "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? th...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says Jamaicans will see a shift in the Government's management of the COVID-19 crisis that has been intensified by a shortage of medical oxygen and logistical weaknesses exposed by an u...