Howls of protest from Opposition senators over a two-clause amendment to the old Road Traffic Act yesterday failed to gain traction as the Government used its majority in the Upper House to suspend the Senate Standing Orders and pass th...

Parliament yesterday approved a new Bill, the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act, which will allow for the continuation of fixed penalties under the substantive road traffic legislation.The Bill was approved without amendments in the House o...

Police were last night searching for a gunman who escaped during a firefight with cops in Portmore, St Catherine, which resulted in the death of his crony and injury to three policemen.The dramatic events started unfolding about 3:30 p...

The couple charged with trafficking in persons when a nightclub they owned and operated was raided by police in 2010 was this week sentenced after striking a plea deal.The then Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) of the Jamai...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Following Thursday's stand-off between a judge and police personnel, Jamaica Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James says his members are demanding greater respect from the judiciary.Thursday's unease ...

Sadie Keating, the public servant best remembered for the sensational 2003 Keating Report that lifted the cover off the abuse of children and the horrible conditions in State homes and places of safety, died yesterday, aged 79, her fami...

The death penalty, life behind bars, and imprisonment with hard labour are some of the punishments Jamaicans have recommended for adult men who have relationships with girls below the age of consent and even go as far as impregnating t...

THE Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) says the Ministry of Health's decision to administer only second doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from the current batch available runs contrary to the urgent need to increase vaccin...

Kevin Dale has seen many puzzling things in the two decades he has been driving his taxi. But the strangest of the lot, he said, was the day a man he believed to be a ghost entered his vehicle.The 47-year-old cabbie says he can't quite ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Opposition spokesman on transport Mikael Phillips says the temporary injunction granted by the Supreme Court blocking the police from issuing traffic tickets in excess of fines as at 2006 is a result of the Gover...

CHAMBERS PEN, Hanover - The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is looking to private contractors to help it improve garbage collection for the Yuletide season. The two-week-old programme, which has already added at least ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - Friends, family and former colleagues gathered yesterday at Washington National Cathedral to honour Colin L Powell, the trailblazing soldier-diplomat who rose from humble Bronx beginnings to become t...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Britain's Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, is to visit Barbados to participate in the island's transition to a republic on November 30, according to an official statement issued by the British High Commissio...

IMMEDIATE past president of the Jamaica Association of Public Health Inspectors (JAPHI), Karen Brown, is encouraging more young people to consider a career as public health inspectors. Speaking to students at the St Ann's Bay Primary Sc...

The second Crown witness in the trial of 33 alleged members of the Klansman gang yesterday told the court about more murders committed by the criminal organisation and revealed how he secretly collaborated with detectives to record phon...

New York , USA - Jamaicans across the United States have reacted with delight over President Joe Biden's pick of Jamaican-born N Nick Perry to be the next American ambassador to Kingston.Biden made the announcement Wednesday at the Whit...

MALVERN, St Elizabeth - Stakeholders, including two Government ministers, are beaming that Jamaica's first solar-powered library located in the deep-rural St Elizabeth community of Malvern will bring enormous benefits and savings.BMR En...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - A father charged in connection with the death of his seven-year-old daughter attended the thanksgiving service held for her on the outskirts of this town on Wednesday and delivered a tribute."Tianna Russell was ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Executive director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Elizabeth Riley says the protracted nature of the novel coronavirus pandemic has caused a radical shift in the socio-economic ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester North Western Mikael Phillips is calling for more investment in the public health-care infrastructure in rural areas, and for the health ministry to deliver on its promise of universal health car...

Some of the issues arising from the Supreme Court's temporary injunction against costly traffic tickets will be addressed at today's rare emergency sitting of Parliament scheduled to begin at 11:00 am, according to Justice Minister Del...

President of the Rotary Club of Kingston Ryan Strachan (fifth left) poses with a representational cheque valued at $370,000 which he handed over to the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) during a brief ceremony at the YMCA's Hope ...

Today is the 309th day of 2021. There are 56 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2010: Jamaican social anthropologist Professor Barry Chevannes loses his battle with pancreatic cancer. OTHER EVENTS1605: English authorities arrest Gu...

Diana Cleghorn (left) of May Pen, Clarendon, is surprised by Jamaica Public Service customer service team leader in the parish, Kareen Jackson, who visited her home and presented her with e-vouchers and groceries for herself and two gra...

This disabled Jamaica Urban Transit Company bus is left in the middle of Oxford Road, just above the intersection with Knutsford Boulevard, last evening, forcing some motorists heading east to use the oncoming lane at the risk of collid...

In our story carried yesterday headlined 'Now Julian wants more', Member of Parliament (MP) for St Andrew South Eastern Julian Robinson was reported as joining the call for an increase in Constituency Development Fund (CDF) allocations....

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - A stand-off between a judge and a police sergeant created a few moments of tension in the St Elizabeth Parish Court yesterday, resulting in the cop being warned for contempt.The kerfuffle had its foundation in...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - As they gathered for the burial of seven-year-old Tianna Russell here on Wednesday, school officials proposed the launch of a system to help teachers detect child abuse virtually. It has been dubbed the 'Tianna ...

Hardware & Lumber Limited has collaborated with the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) for a community pop-up COVID-19 vaccination drive, resulting in almost 450 people being inoculated. H&L Rapid True Value stores in Ocho ...

ALEXANDRIA, St Ann - Saskia Francis has become all too familiar with grieving after the death of a loved one, having lost her unborn child and her boyfriend within a six-month period. In April, four months into her pregnancy, Francis ha...

PEOPLE'S National Party shadow minister of land, environment and climate change Sophia Frazer-Binns says the Opposition fully supports the 'Action on Forests and Land Use' declaration.The action brings together an unprecedented coalitio...

SENIOR executives of Amadeus, a European-based global travel company that serves as a backbone for the international travel industry, on Wednesday told senior Jamaican tourism officials that the island is experiencing one of the fastest...

STATE minister in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security Zavia Mayne is encouraging employers to recruit more disable people in an effort to achieve a more inclusive society.Mayne was speaking at Wednesday's employee multi-purpose f...

ARKANSAS, u nited States (AP) - President Joe Biden's mandate for many private employers to require their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 is facing a wall of opposition from state Republican officials who are passing laws and...

United States President Joe Biden yesterday named Jamaican immigrant and veteran New York assemblyman Noah Nicholas "Nick" Perry, as his nominee for Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Jamaica.The 71-year-old Perry was born...

Alleged leader of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang Andre "Blackman" Bryan had a scheme for diverting attention from the criminal organisation for shootings done in the Shelter Rock community in Spanish Town in pursuit of an individu...

Member of Parliament (MP) for South Eastern St Andrew, Julian Robinson is urging the Government to develop an equitable mechanism to allow MPs to access funding for infrastructure works in their constituencies."There is an urgent need t...

The education ministry says student safety is being given top priority as the country prepares to begin a phased resumption of face-to-face classes for children in grades 7-10.At the same time, the ministry said through the Education i...

Small island states are threatening legal action against larger, richer countries that default on their obligations under the Paris Agreement to deliver funds that will allow them to adapt to the effects of climate change and compensate...

Late cult pastor Kevin Smith ruled his Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries with such an iron fist that he would project death upon congregants and their families who refused to pay him money upon demand. And among his...

The Integrity Commission has shot back at claims by Minister of Transport and Mining Robert Montague that he could not respond to questions about the Airports Authority of Jamaica's (AAJ) multimillion-dollar investment in First Rock Hol...

Today is the 308th day of 2021. There are 57 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2008: Barack Obama is elected the first black president of the United States. OTHER EVENTS1530: England's Cardinal Wolsey is arrested for being a trait...

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says it is working with countries in the region, like Jamaica, where COVID-19 vaccination rates remain low, in an effort to ramp up the use of vaccines either bought through the COVAX facilit...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Five people were admitted to hospital after an equal number of mishaps on the roads in Portland and rural St Andrew over a three-day period last week, spurring the police to urge motorists to be more careful."We...

Nickesha Greenfield, a 21-year tourism veteran, has much to celebrate as the decorated resort sales manager at Beaches Negril, even as she pauses to reflect on the setbacks she encountered on her journey.Some of these challenges, she ad...

Four students who outshone their peers in the 2021 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations on Tuesday received Government scholarships for their excellent academic performances.The students, Adrianna McDougall, who attended Ocho Rios Pr...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - The overgrown shrubs, piles of garbage, vandalised changing room and remnants of a disintegrated rusty fence are telltale signs of the neglect plaguing Clemhards Park - the main football field in the St Mary capita...

ANALYSTS and financial institutions continue to predict whether SpaceX or Tesla will be the company to propel the world's richest person, Elon Musk, into the trillionaire realm, making him the first to do so in our time.Musk is now wort...

The 33 accused on trial for atrocities committed by the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, including alleged leader Andre "Blackman" Bryan, yesterday heard in detail just how a former member double-crossed them, helping investigators get...

The Integrity Commission has issued warning signals that it has begun the process of preparing files for public officials with outstanding statutory declarations to be referred for prosecution.In a special report to Parliament yesterda...