Government Member of Parliament (MP) for St Andrew West Rural Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn has defended the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), dismissing what she says have been attempts to peg it as a bribery pool by politicians to snare vo...

Four years after the Agricultural Loan Societies and Approved Organisations Act was passed, the House of Representatives yesterday gave the nod to regulations that will make the Act operational.The Act is aimed at streamlining the proce...

Describing the theft of cable wires in sections of her constituency and elsewhere as "a devastating problem", Government Member of Parliament for St Andrew West Rural Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn says harsher penalties might need to be consid...

 Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke on Tuesday that requests for applications for the award of Integrated Resort Development (IRD) orders will be opened on Wednesday, October 6.Under the Casino Gaming Act, the m...

THE Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) has pointed to difficulties with online learning, brought on by the novel coronavirus pandemic, as a reason for the decline it has seen in the number of adolescent mothers enrolled at the ...

BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - A search for two men, which began on Monday night, ended with the discovery of their bodies on a footpath along a lonely stretch of road in Home Castle, Brown's Town, one tied with rope, both shot to death. The tr...

One of Jamaica's leading legal luminaries has appealed to the Government to dismiss a request for vaccinated people to attend upcoming Fifa World Cup qualifiers at the National Stadium, saying that Jamaicans need to understand that the...

Today is the 279th day of 2021. There are 86 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1927: In the United States, the era of talking pictures arrives with the opening of The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, a movie which features both sil...

The anticipation had been mounting since the first announcement of the NOW Nestlé Caribbean Youth Summit weeks ago. Nestlé's self-prescribed mandate - to increase employment and employability and give youth the opportunity and drive ...

For the second consecutive year Citi has been recognised as the Best Corporate/Institutional Digital Bank in Jamaica by Global Finance magazine.The publication was staging its 22nd annual 'World's Best Digital Corporate/Institutional...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The US Government will have to wait until a man, whom they say is a wanted fugitive, pays his $8,000 fine or spend one month in a St Ann jail before they can get him back on American soil to answer charges of murder ...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - The case involving two men accused in the Nattallie Dawkins murder has been rescheduled to Thursday, October 7. The matter, initially set for Monday, September 13, had to be rescheduled after that date was later des...

Shortly before 15-year-old Domonick "Papa Bear" Deerr was stabbed to death in Kingston's gritty Dunkirk community last Friday morning he was watching his favourite television series, Lucifer."I was inside with him on Friday and him go o...

Dear Mr Brown,I want to know your thoughts on studying at a private college in Canada. They promise guaranteed jobs and scholarships and lower tuition. But I heard that private schools are different from public schools. I want to know w...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - There is now a raging debate on how best to deal with homeless people, some of them mentally ill, wandering the streets of Port Antonio. The conversation recently intensified after a mentally ill man threw a sto...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The St James pastor accused of raping a teenage girl is expected to have his first day in the St James Circuit Court today. The case was initially being heard in the St James Parish Court.Thirty-nine-year-old Jas...

ONE of Jamaica's top medical professionals, Dr Guyan Arscott is recommending that the Government indicates, in its daily COVID-19 reports, whether the people who died from the novel coronavirus were vaccinated or unvaccinated."Every day...

CHIEF Justice Bryan Sykes yesterday insisted that all main police stations should be outfitted with remote hearing capabilities after he was forced to adjourn the high-profile trial of 33 people accused of being members of the feared Kl...

The Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) will start reviewing the Government's proposed First Supplementary Estimates 2021/22 today at Gordon House.In addition, Minister of National Security Dr Horace ...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - Prime Minister Gaston Browne says Antigua and Barbuda will be entering 2022 with most, if not all of the measures put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, removed, whether or not a signifi...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - Investigators commissioned by the United Nations' top human rights body, including Jamaica's Tracy Robinson, said yesterday that they turned up evidence of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Li...

SANDALS Resorts International (SRI) yesterday kicked off its 40th anniversary celebrations with the announcement that it will establish the Gordon "Butch" Stewart International School of Hospitality and Tourism in honour of its late fou...

The central bank yesterday received more flak for its decision to increase deposit interest rates by one percentage point with the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) describing it as misguided and insisting that the...

Today is the 278th day of 2021. There are 87 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1947: In the first televised White House address, US President Harry S Truman asks Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thur...

THE Government has refused to budge on requests from the Opposition to increase the period for the first review of the anticipated Sexual Harassment Act beyond the current 18 months.Leader of Government Business in the Senate Senator Ka...

CLOSE to 200 residents of Maverley and surrounding communities in St Andrew on Saturday received COVID-19 vaccines in a drive organised by the Rotary Club of Trafalgar, New Heights.The club partnered with the Ministry of Health and Well...

THE Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE) has announced a partnership with Liquefied National Gas (LNG) provider, New Fortress Energy (NFE), that will see three top-performing students from the island's three tertiary institutions whic...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The St Ann police will tomorrow make another push to locate missing teacher Ruchelle Williams.According to Senior Superintendent Dwight Powell, commanding officer for the St Ann Police Division, they have received mu...

PRESIDENT Of the Lupus Foundation of Jamaica, Dr Desiree Tulloch-Reid is calling for increased awareness of the disease, which can lead to early detection and access to treatment.October is being observed as Lupus Awareness Month, under...

"Everybody sad, crying from morning because it is my brother's birthday and he is not even here for us to hug and kiss him - and we can't get no justice for him. Somebody knows something about who hit my brother from his bike and they n...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Jordan's King Abdullah II was meeting with the World Bank president, asking for more financial support for his country's battered economy, just around the time the news broke: A trove of leaked documents revealed the ki...

MENLO PARK, United States (AP) - Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were down across wide swathes of the world yesterday, with Facebook's internal systems used by employees also going down.The company said it was awar...

VOLUNTEERS from Sandals South Coast, representing Sandals Foundation, recently provided children ranging from ages three to 11, from 15 early childhood and primary schools in Westmoreland, with much-needed school supplies, which include...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness on Friday told residents of Tower Hill in his St Andrew West Central constituency that widescale electricity theft cannot continue, as he encouraged them to have their connections regularised.Residents of T...

TOURISM Minister Edmund Bartlett says that the island can expect more than 50 non-stop flights per week between Canada and Jamaica, starting November 1.Speaking from Canada, where he has been having a series of engagements with travel i...

THREE wanted men were arrested by the St Catherine South police over the weekend as they increase operations across the division.The men, who were wanted in connection with several serious offences, were arrested in separate incidents b...

JUST a week after losing a theatre technician, staff members at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) are now mourning the death of a registered nurse who died on Friday night.The nurse, 31-year-old Dominique Stevens, worked in the hospita...

AN overseas company with significant experience in hospital build-out has been brought in to help manage the delay-plagued $4-billion renovation project at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, Health and Wellness Minister Dr...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Not a single hurricane has hit Puerto Rico this year, but hundreds of thousands of people in the US territory feel like they're living in the aftermath of a major storm.Students do homework by the light of d...

Today is the 277th day of 2021. There are 88 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1895: William Robinson Clarke, the first black pilot to fly for Britain was born in Kingston, Jamaica.OTHER EVENTS1830: The provisional Government of Be...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Governor General Sir Patrick Allen, citing statistics that indicate that each night one in six people in Jamaica go to bed hungry, is calling for better distribution of food to alleviate hunger in the society."Th...

LIKE thousands of other students who will be graduating from The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona come November, Brandon Vassell had high hopes of celebrating his milestone with his father and other relatives after successfully...

CHAIRMAN of the parliamentary committee (JSC) reviewing proposals for making Portmore Jamaica's 15th parish, Dr Andrew Wheatley says that the report will be tabled next week in Parliament.Wheatley confirmed the date after last Thursday'...

GOVERNMENT Senator Aubyn Hill is recommending that the transmission and distribution portion of the Jamaica Public Service jamaica Public Service company Limited's (JPS) operations be split off into a special purpose vehicle, and traded...

MINISTER of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change Pearnel Charles Jr says individuals displaced during the passage of hurricanes Ivan and Dean have received first preference at a subsidised cost, to relocate to the Harb...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - The Biden Administration has announced new immigration enforcement priorities amid the Haitian migration crisis.US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N Mayorkas said the new Guidelines for the...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - A new currency with six fewer zeros debuted last week in Venezuela, whose currency has been made nearly worthless by years of the world's worst inflation.The highest denomination until now was a $1-million boli...

CONNECTICUT, United States (AP) - She lived a life of adventure that spanned two continents. She fell in love with a World War II fighter pilot, barely escaped Europe ahead of Benito Mussolini's fascists, ground steel for the US war eff...

OCHO Rios, St Ann - Five months into vaccination blitzes being relied on to protect large swathes of the country's population against the novel coronavirus, nurses in St Ann have developed a range of coping mechanisms. Among the tools t...

The novel coronavirus has claimed many lives around the world, and while Jamaica has already recorded 1,869 deaths so far, many well known names are listed.Some of them are famous Jamaican singer,Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, former Cabine...