Mark Golding has reiterated the Opposition's disapproval of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination and decried what he said were injustices in the application of penalties for breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act.As Opposition spokesper...

With the opening of the economy and people returning to work, the Government must now reopen schools, using the approaches and best practices taken by other jurisdictions which have successfully done so, as the benefit of face-to-face ...

Medical cannabis company Jacana, its eyes firmly set on becoming an "oasis" in New Kingston, officially opened a new store in the business district last weekend.Located in the newly refurbished New Kingston Business Centre on Grenada Cr...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - According to weary vendors, the Savanna-la-Mar market has been looking and smelling more like a dump than a place where food is sold on a daily basis. However, local waste management officials have hit bac...

The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) was yesterday heavily criticised by Jamaicans who turned out in large numbers at its constituency offices in Kingston and St Catherine to collect new voter registration identification cards.The long...

Just under six months after his release from prison and four months after being shot and injured by gunmen in Bull Bay, St Andrew, along with three other people, gangster Christopher "Dog Paw" Linton was shot dead by police yesterday a...

Today is the 285th day of 2021. There are 80 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1822: Brazil becomes independent of Portugal. OTHER EVENTS1492: Christopher Columbus makes his first landfall in the New World, in present-day Bahamas ...

When Chris Barnes went to pursue his Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona in 2016, he was hell-bent on successfully completing his studies, without having to redo any courses.This w...

AS part of its core educational initiative and support for the nation's children, Bert's Auto Parts has awarded 30 primary school graduates with scholarships, educational grants and electronic devices to help them on their secondary sch...

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) - California's coronavirus death toll reached another once-unfathomable milestone - 70,000 people - yesterday as the state emerges from the latest infection surge with the lowest rate of new cases among all s...

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) - Bulgaria's Kristalina Georgieva, whose tenure as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) remained uncertain yesterday amid allegations of data tampering, is described as a respected economist with...

DALLAS, Texas (AP) - Southwest Airlines cancelled several hundred more flights yesterday following a weekend of major disruptions that it blamed on bad weather and air traffic control issues. Both the company and its pilots' union denie...

WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (AP) - A parent has sued a south-eastern Wisconsin school district after her son contracted COVID-19 from a classmate. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Shannon Jensen filed the lawsuit in federal court ag...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - An expert group advising the World Health Organization (WHO) on vaccines has recommended that older people and those with compromised immune systems get an extra dose of COVID-19 vaccine as part of their regul...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has taken the intense scrutiny of his team's distribution of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in stride, saying he respects that other elected officials have opted to spe...

Firefighters spent yesterday putting out the embers of a massive Saturday night fire that razed a large section of Facey Commodity's main warehouse in Kingston and which has left billions of dollars in damage."I don't know the prelimina...

Kim Mair (right), CEO, JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation, and Daryl Vaz (centre), minister of energy, science and technology, look at the new mobile washable Ergotron HIMS cart while Dr Carl Bruce, medical chief of staff at University Hospita...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - Facing the threat of slipping into homelessness with her family once again, Natalie Hutchinson is asking for more time to vacate the plot of land that she is said to be occupying illegally in Linstead.The proper...

The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) yesterday said that more than 98 per cent of its members have responded with a resounding "yes" to a survey of views on whether COVID-19 vaccinations should be mandated for the tourism s...

JAMAICAN medical professionals have given mixed reactions to US pharmaceutical company Merck's announcement that it has developed a pill to treat the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19.On October 1 Merck had said it wo...

PARIS, France (AFP) - President Emmanuel Macron remains the favourite to win France's next election but six months before the polls he faces the uncomfortable situation of not knowing the identity of his main challenger.As the countdown...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - Britain has rescued or intercepted a total of 1,115 migrants attempting to cross the English Channel over just two days, the country's interior ministry said yesterday.Rising numbers of Channel crossings b...

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) - Elated Sydneysiders defied grey skies and rain to celebrate the lifting of almost four months of lockdown today, hoping to put behind them a period of "blood, sweat and no beers" in Australia's largest city.Syd...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Urology patients at Mandeville Regional Hospital are set to benefit from the use of a Vio s can machine donated last Friday by Rotarians. The machine is particularly useful for patients who depend on catheters, ...

Today is the 284th day of 2021. There are 81 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1865: Paul Bogle, leads hundreds in a march from Stony Gut to Morant Bay (which would be known as the Morant Bay Rebellion). They were protesting injust...

An ambitious plan to unite hundreds of thousands of past students of Jamaican high schools to commemorate National Alumni Day has met its first hurdle in the still festering dispute at Merl Grove High School (MGHS), over the controvers...

A Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) supervisor, who has been described as a "serial sexual harasser" by some female employees, has been reportedly interdicted while the company conducts a probe into the allegations against him.Last T...

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has disagreed with a suggestion that its transmission and distribution operations be placed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) as, among other things, a means of incentivising investors in rene...

Former West Indies Petroleum Company Limited (WIPL) directors Courtney Wilkinson and John Levy have been prohibited from, over a three-year period, executing similar business activities to WIPL and its subsidiary Island Lubes Distribut...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Richard Miller knows all too well how much good can come from acts of kindness. He's the principal of Farm Primary and Junior High School and when classes were first forced online because of the novel coronavirus...

Sandals Foundation says it will plant 7,000 trees and manage 7,000 more in the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park - a UNESCO World Heritage site in Jamaica - to kick-start Sandals Resorts International's (SRI) 40th anniversary ...

CHAPELTON, Clarendon - As a Clarendon family struggles to come to terms with the tragic loss of a loved one, the police investigating his murder are trying to find out why he was in Linstead, St Catherine, at the time of his death. The ...

BOSTON, Portland - The Portland police say they are following strong leads and expect to soon make an arrest in connection with last Thursday's drug bust. About 930 pounds of compressed ganja, valued at $6.5 million, and two boat engine...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - One hundred and twenty nurses at Savanna-la-Mar Hospital recently became the latest beneficiaries of Cornerstone Jamaica's Container of Love project.On October 5 the health-care workers received packages w...

The National Water Commission (NWC) is chanting conservation, even as storage at the Corporate Area's two main supply facilities has reached capacity.Corporate communications manager at the NWC Andrew Canon said that despite the Mona Re...

He dedicated his BSc in Terrestrial Ecology with a minor in cultural studies to his late grandmother. She dedicated her MSc in Management and Educational Leadership to her late mother. For both, that is Daisy Williams who succumbed to c...

HART HILL, Portland - One day after she became a certified nurse's assistant Cassandra Bennett was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was 45 years old. She did not cry; instead, she chose to fight. Born in the community of Mahoe in Portl...

A four-hour wait to receive the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine back in August resulted in Janice Smith collapsing on the grounds of St Ann's Bay Baptist Church, being used as a site at the time.After what she describes as a traumati...

ST ANN'S BAY, St Ann - The man who was shot dead by police yesterday after he was accused of beheading another was described as a violent individual who was feared by many in this north-eastern town.Said to be mentally challenged, and k...

On the heels of news that Pastor Merrick "Al" Miller has been removed from the list of national honorees for 2021, the clergyman has charged that he will continue his work towards building a better Jamaica."Please be assured that, as I...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - Fourteen members of a family, including children who up to last month were sleeping in chicken coops, have been ordered to leave the land they are accused of occupying illegally in the vicinity of Linstead Fire ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Ariah Turner, the now one-year-old girl whose mother recently made an appeal for help, is well on her way to receiving the anal reconstructive surgery she needs to live a normal life, said the toddler's mother, T...

Holness should listen to his wife some moreThe accolades cannot be too many for parliamentarian Juliet Holness who has shown all her peers in the House of Representatives that serving the people of this country goes beyond party borders...

TREASURE BEACH, St Elizabeth - For residents of this community, and more particularly the Great Bay area, the floods of mid-October 2005 triggered by Hurricane Wilma, which passed south of Jamaica, was unlike anything before or since.Ru...

The novel coronavirus pandemic and its lockdown measures have triggered an increase in the consumption of alcoholic beverages among sections of the Jamaican population and this includes people who reported that they suffered from emoti...

As the world observes October as Cyber Security Awareness Month, it is essential to engage the senior community in conversations about cybersecurity. The elderly, according to an article by Digicel Jamaica, are constantly urged to be v...

Age-friendly environments, such as in the home, community, foster healthy and active ageing by building and maintaining intrinsic capacity across the life course and enabling greater functional ability in someone with a given level of ...

C OVID-19 has not only created a health crisis but also a retirement dilemma for many.The negative impact of the pandemic on the stock market is a contributing factor to the decline in pension funds in 2020. Pension funds suffered a los...

Breast cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related death among Jamaican women and although rare, men can get breast cancer too.A breast cancer diagnosis can be devastating, and navigating potential treatment options can be stress...

October is celebrated as oral health awareness month. We care for every part of our body, so why should our mouths be neglected? Oral health month is a reminder about the importance of maintaining good oral hygiene, always. Oral health ...