MONTEGO BAY, St James - After pleading guilty and paying a total of $1.17 million in fines, all 39 members of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries hauled before the court yesterday have escaped serving time for breaches...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Death has not spared Kevin Smith the humiliation of being slapped with murder charges in connection with the horror that played out at the organisation he led, Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministrie...

Justice Vinnette Graham-Allen yesterday halted court proceedings against André Ruddock as the murder accused was unrepresented in the Home Circuit Court.Ruddock is before the court to answer to one count of murder and one count of wou...

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is shelling out several million dollars each year to repair buses damaged in stone throwing incidents.Yesterday corporate communications manager at the JUTC Cecil Thoms told the Jamaica Observer...

Government Members of Parliament (MP) closed ranks yesterday to prevent Education Minister Fayval Williams from giving definitive answers to whether disgraced former education minister and principal of Jamaica College (JC) Ruel Reid wil...

A n American entity that specialises in helping people adversely affected by or interested in cultic and other high-control groups, is offering assistance to Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries congregants who are sti...

The joy at being back in classrooms was patently obvious on the faces of children and educators at some infant schools in the Corporate Area on Tuesday, four days after the education ministry announced a phased resumption of face-to-fac...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Two men died in a two-vehicle crash on the outskirts of Mandeville near Marshalls Pen yesterday evening.A relative named one of the deceased as Marvin Thompson of Seven Corners near Santa Cruz in St Elizabeth.Th...

A second Crown witness in the trial of 33 people alleged to be members of the Klansman gang took the stand for the first time yesterday and testified that in 2018, while in the presence of detectives from the Criminal Investigations Bra...

Hundreds of residents living in Above Rocks, and surrounding communities in St Catherine, will now benefit from improved health care at the Above Rocks Health Centre which received a facelift after years of operating in a less than acc...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The future of headline-grabbing Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries appears uncertain with two members of its hierarchy saying they have no clue who, if anyone, will replace its deceased leader ...

On Wednesday, October 27, Ashley Furniture HomeStore drew the curtains on the fifth staging of Design Week JA. The "beautiful, affordable furniture" purveyor hosted a virtual event, entitled Love It, moderated by event conceptualiser No...

Each year, as it nears the anniversary of her son's death, Taneisha Gopaul falls into a state of depression and grief that threatens her mental health.Saturday, October 23, 2021, was two years to the day of her son's death and there wer...

Managers and other senior officials across the island are being targeted for a gender relations training session scheduled for November 4. The training is being provided in an effort to increase knowledge of sexual harassment among oth...

"JOY and Mikada were the most amazing butlers. They attended to every one of our needs - which were a lot - and they are both assets to Sandals," said one guest of Sandals South Coast."I cannot say enough great things about our butlers ...

DENVER, Colorado (AP) - The United States has issued its first passport with an "X" gender designation, marking a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who do not identify as male or female, and expects to be able to offe...

THE Government is being urged to put the matter of compensation for vaccine injury on the table alongside any discussion, or move, towards a COVID-19 vaccination mandate.Vincent Morrison, president of the Union of Clerical Administrativ...

FEWER Jamaicans have been turning up for their second dose of COVID-19 vaccines even as the Government pushes to administer one million doses by the end of next month.Yesterday health officials pleaded with Jamaicans who are due their s...

DEPLORABLE restrooms, uncollected garbage, theft and other irritants have been plaguing vendors at markets in the Corporate Area, no matter the amount they pay to sell in these facilities.At Papine market in St Andrew, graffiti-stained ...

ALBERTA, Canada - Mount Olivet Bible Institute and Seminary (MOBIS) in Ontario was yesterday mum on whether former Pathways International leader Kevin Ontoniel Smith received a Doctor of Ministry degree from that institution ."Our offic...

The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) yesterday accused the Government of dilly-dallying with the education and future of the nation's children by not yet deciding when it will reopen schools for face-to-face classes. At a virtu...

"A spot in the graveyard" is the only known "benefit" he will be receiving for his decision to testify against the 33 alleged members of the vicious Klansman gang now on trial, the prosecution's main witness yesterday told defence attor...

National Commercial Bank (NCB) says it has expanded its Credit Card Instalment Plan feature to include all of its consumer credit cards.The plan means that "cardholders can buy now and pay later for the things they want and need, whethe...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday put parents and school administrators on notice that face-to-face learning will resume for 376 of the island's 759 primary schools on November 8.This will see the return of 45,390 students to clas...

HEALTH and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday issued a strong plea to Jamaicans outside the 12 to 18 age group not to turn up at vaccination sites seeking to get the Pfizer jab as the doses which are expected to arrive he...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Jamaica Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James says the Ministry of National Security needs to make arrangements allowing toll road access to members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force in the pursuit of t...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Health officials here have expressed satisfaction following a house-to-house COVID-19 vaccination drive that targeted shut-ins, the disabled and the elderly in Cross Keys, Newport and Mandeville on Sunday and Mo...

Fully vaccinated Ja maicans travelling to the United States as of November 8, 2021 should face no challenges entering that country with the paper-based COVID-19 vaccination certificate currently issued here.Minister of Health and Welln...

Director of the Island Traffic Authority (ITA) Kenute Hare is urging motorists to desist from affixing licence plates to their vehicles that are not issued in Jamaica.Speaking in an interview with JIS News, Hare warned that the practic...

The newest entrant to the local delivery market, Hugo, has been acquired by Delivery Hero, the world's leading local delivery platform. The agreement will see Delivery Hero acquiring the multi-category marketplace's core food delivery ...

Q. I am a US citizen living in Jamaica. My passport has recently expired. What can I do? A. This is a great question. First know that it is currently possible to return to the United States on a recently expired passport. Until December...

This man wades through water in the Allman Town community near Heroes' Circle after a heavy downpour recently.(Photo: Jason Tulloch)

Javon O'Gilive (left), general manager of Incomparable Hardware and Construction, points out features of these motorised bicycles he presented to Authur Spidore (centre), who lives in Tivoli Gardens, and Neville Rashford, a resident of ...

Dear Mr Brown,I heard that the Canadian Government is going to continue giving priority to people already in Canada, even though things should be getting back to normal with the vaccination drive.TSDear TS,The Canadian Government recent...

Kiwanis Club of North St Andrew had another staging of its annual 'One Day Project' last Saturday, at Clan Carthy Primary School. The club joined Clan Carthy Builders Club members, The UWI's Circle K International Club, and representat...

We are heading towards the end of another successful staging of Design Week JA. On Monday, October 25, our stop took us to Evergrow Garden Center on South Avenue. Communications Consultant Ann Jeffrey showed viewers how to incorporate g...

There were not many things worth confronting the bedlam caused by traffic in the corporate area last Saturday. Well, except for popping into H&L Rapid True Value. The retailer's Style Up Yuh Space event was a must-stop for Design We...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) - Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same. Convicted of assaulting...

WASHINGTON, USA (AP) - The United States moved a step closer to expanding COVID-19 vaccinations for millions more children as a panel of Government advisers yesterday endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer shots for 5- to 11-year-olds.A Food...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) - Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley has called on Caribbean countries to be prepared for the possibility of a climate change event that could cause mass migration and displacement in the Caribbean."2017 ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) - The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) yesterday warned Caribbean countries to be prepared for high flooding and landslides until January next year.In its latest Caribbean Climate Outl...

The attorney for Andre "Blackman" Bryan, the accused leader of the feared Klansman gang, yesterday painted the Crown's key witness as a lying desperado who turned prosecution witness to escape facing the music for his own role in the St...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - As lawmen yesterday defended the choice of route taken to transport Kevin Smith, leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, to Kingston to face charges of murder and illegal possession of fi...

The popular site just above the town clock in Old Harbour, St Catherine, known to many as the Old Harbour Market, is getting a much-needed facelift.According to Councillor Steve Graham (Jamaica Labour Party, Old Harbour Central Division...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The police have charged a member of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James with murder.He has been identified as 37-year-old André Ruddock.Ruddock was charged yesterday afternoon at th...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - School leaders in Manchester and St Elizabeth are preparing for the possibility that the Government will approve the resumption of face-to-face classes soon.This follows last week's submission from the Ministry ...

In the latest bizarre twist to a saga that began two Sundays ago with what is being called a human sacrifice ritual, Kevin Smith, leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, yesterday died in a three-vehicle crash. ...

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed yesterday forming a high-powered partnership agreeing to establish the Gordon "Butch" Stewart International School of Hospitality and Tourism that will train the next generation of Caribbea...

CHIEF Justice Bryan Sykes, the trial judge in the case involving 33 people accused of being members of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, has ordered a full medical report into the condition of the Crown's main witness on whose accou...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Reactions from former members of the Kevin Smith-led Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries yesterday ranged from joy, disbelief that he had died, to concern that he had not had a chance to repent ...