MIAMI, United States (CMC) - Director general of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) Vanessa Ledesma says while travel advisories have been placed on several Caribbean destinations due to the increase in coronavirus (COVI...

COMMANDING officer for the St Mary Police Division Superintendent Bobette Morgan-Simpson says yesterday's gun attack in Enfield, which claimed the lives of three men and left four other people nursing injuries, may have been a reprisal ...

MINISTER of Education, Youth and Information Fayval Williams has indicated that legal action could be taken against anyone found involved in the messy affairs at Nutrition Products Limited (NPL) which, based on a report from Auditor Gen...

MINISTER of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change Pearnel Charles Jr says that while increased climate ambition is necessary, it is useless without predictable, accessible and equitable financing. Charles was representi...

THE Government says it will have to spend approximately $2 billion to restore the agricultural sector, which took a $1.7- billion hit from tropical storms Grace and Ida in August.Portfolio Minister Audley Shaw announced yesterday that $...

After using his swanky home to host alleged members of the notorious Klansman gang, including reputed faction leader Andre "Blackman" Bryan, stash their extortion cash and their rented getaway cars, a prosecution star witness yesterday...

PRESIDENT of the little-known United Independent Congress (UIC), Joseph Patterson declared yesterday that he will be taking legal action against the police for what he believed was very aggressive and forceful handling of people who par...

Today is the 266th day of 2021. There are 99 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1980: Bob Marley performs his last show at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. OTHER EVENTS1518: During the reign of Great Britain's King ...

CHILDREN were yesterday urged to report cases of abuse any time of the day by calling the 211 helpline to get the necessary help.The 24-hour helpline, which has been operational since June, is the first of its kind in Jamaica and can be...

RESIDENTS of Portmore are likely to end up with at least three political constituencies, whenever the community emerges as Jamaica's 15th parish.This was indicated by Dr Andrew Wheatley, chairman of the Joint Select Committee (JSC) of P...

IDENTITY information not available on persons in the course of police investigations will be obtainable through the courts when the National Identification and Registration System (NIDS) takes effect.The 2017 National Identification and...

In celebration of International Housekeeping Week, September 12-17, Sandals Ochi Beach Resort (SOBR), Sandals Royal Plantation (SRP) and Beaches Ocho Rios (BOR) lauded and celebrated all members in their housekeeping departments with so...

Past students of the beleaguered Merl Grove High School (MGHS) said yesterday they were left aghast at the non-appearance of board Chairman David Hall at a disciplinary hearing into actions by suspended Principal Dr Marjorie Fullerton.T...

Boys living in inner-city communities account for 70 per cent of the school dropout rate, providing fertile ground for criminal gang recruitment, according to Dr Horace Chang, the island's minister of national security.Chang, who was a...

BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - Members of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) have vowed to continue searching for 34-year-old mathematics teacher Ruchelle Williams who has been missing since September 15. "We are committed to searching for...

Government Senator Natalie Campbell Rodriques wants colleagues who are not vaccinated against the novel coronavirus restricted to online engagements of the joint select committee reviewing the proposal to make Portmore the country's 15t...

THE Jamaican Bar Association (JBA) says it does not believe that requirements for mandatory vaccination, whether by employees or the State, contravene the constitutional rights of Jamaicans."A scheme requiring mandatory vaccination is n...

An information technology audit of the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) has uncovered critical information security weaknesses which could put records and people's identity at risk for theft.A report on the informati...

The trial of 33 alleged members of the Klansman gang, which was yesterday halted prematurely, should resume this morning with evidence being given by at least one of two gangsters turned Crown witness.Prosecutors on Monday, in outlining...

THE School of Computing and Information Technology (SCIT) in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) has moved a step closer to establishing a state-of-the-art Internet of Things (IoT) l...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The Jamaican Deaf Community is expected to be better able to communicate with the police following the recent training and certification of 35 cops in basic sign language.The law enforcement officers assigned to...

Today is the 265th day of 2021. There are 100 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1989: F W De Klerk takes over as president of South Africa. OTHER EVENTS1550: Holy Roman Empire fleet captures vessel Port-of- Africa at Mehedia in Tu...

THE Lupus Foundation of Jamaica says a number of lupus patients are still holding off on being vaccinated against COVID-19 because they are waiting to have questions answered or to get permission from their doctors. In a release yesterd...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced that cruise shipping will fully return to Jamaican ports shortly and has implored craft vendors and other players who are complaining that they are being denied thei...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie said he is mulling the possibility of providing transportation for firefighters travelling home after long hours on the job, adding that his ministry intends to establish...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Farmers in Northern Clarendon are united in their call for a dedicated minister of agriculture following last week's resignation of the former minister Floyd Green. The farmers say the ministry, which is being toute...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, September 22, 2021: You are an optimist who is fair-minded, independent and self-sufficient. You have a natural grace and elegance. You are a hard-working perfectionist capable of self-discipline. This year...

Dea r Mr Brown:With regards to the Canada election, do you think there will be any significant change in immigration policy? Canada is very friendly towards immigrants in general; however, I am not sure if this will change.- RP Dear RP...

THE Ministry of Health and Wellness is reminding the more than 50,000 Jamaicans who are now, or will shortly be due their second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, to visit a vaccination site for their jab.The reminder comes as the minist...

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) - Caribbean American legislators have intensified their outrage over the deportation of Haitian migrants from southern Texas, calling on President Joe Biden to immediately halt the repatriation of the migra...

APPROXIMATELY 60 per cent of the 89 applications for parole made by prisoners in 2018/2019 were granted by the Parole Board.According to Ministry Paper 57 tabled in Parliament last week, the board deliberated on 89 applications for the ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - In person and on screen, world leaders returned to the United Nations' foremost gathering for the first time in the pandemic era yesterday with a formidable, diplomacy-packed agenda and a sharply worded warning fro...

TORONTO, Canada (AP) - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau secured victory in parliamentary elections but failed to get the majority he wanted, an outcome that threatened his Conservative rival with loss of his job after moving his party to t...

PRESSURE is mounting on Prime Minister Andrew Holness to name a dedicated minister for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries following the resignation of Floyd Green, with Jamaica Observer sources saying the Member of Parliament for...

Lloyd McFarlane, the attorney assigned to represent Andre "Blackman" Bryan, accused leader of the feared Klansman gang, yesterday, on behalf of a miffed team of defence lawyers, appealed for a review of the sums being paid to the attor...

The prosecution will be relying heavily on the testimonies of two self-confessed members of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang to make its case against the 33 accused gangsters whose trial got under way yesterday in the Home Circuit D...

Ahead of today's much-anticipated hearing, suspended principal of Merl Grove High School Dr Marjorie Fullerton has received the support of important stakeholders - a group of teachers, including the acting vice-principal of the upper sc...

NEW YORK, USA - A massive drive, supported by more than 14 of the main Jamaican organisations in the United States, is underway to mobilise assistance in the fight against the [novel coronavirus] pandemic in their homeland.A range of ch...

Stephanie Christie, the sole woman among the 33 accused now on trial in the just-started Klansman gang case, was yesterday described by prosecutors as the "liaison officer" between incarcerated members of the criminal outfit and those ...

A week ago nine-year-old Jabari Fogo was seen during school hours sitting on the sidewalk in his community on Orange Street accessing Internet service from a nearby business for online classes. Now he will be sitting comfortably in his ...

Today is the 264th day of 2021. There are 101 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1996: The Carib cinema, one of Kingston's most famous landmarks, is destroyed by fire. OTHER EVENTS1327: Edward II of England is murdered at Berkely...

BUSTAMANTE Industrial Trade Union Assistant General Secretary Colin Virgo is headed to court to seek damages for what he says is a defamatory media report that he was among a group of people seen at a party held on a no-movement day at ...

JOHN'S HALL, St James - Scores of public transportation operators who service the route between Montego Bay and John's Hall in St James withdrew their service yesterday in protest over the deplorable state of the road and have threatene...

Jamaica's Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday emphasised the importance of strengthening multilateral cooperation and addressing current weaknesses in the global public health system in order for countries to r...

IT once looked impossible, but the prayers of Odain Graham have been answered as the former security officer turned bellman is now training to become a butler at Sandals South Coast.While Graham's story is still being penned, thanks to ...

BOSTON, Portland - Euval Williams used to have sleepless nights whenever it rained. Not any more. Neighbours and police personnel from his community, aptly named Friendship, got together to replace the leaky roof of the visually impaire...

FOR the second time this month, United States law enforcement officials have reported that a Jamaican doctor operating in America has found himself on the wrong side of the law.In the latest case, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The US said yesterday it will ease airline restrictions this fall on travel to the country for people who have vaccination proof and a negative COVID-19 test, replacing a hodgepodge of rules that had...

Seventeen media associations in the Americas and other regions today called, through a public statement, for a "fair and reasonable" remuneration for the publication of journalistic content on digital platforms.The institutions compris...

TEXAS, United States (AP) - The US is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and b locking others from crossing the border from Mexico in a massive show of force that signals the beginning of what could be ...