Today is the 320th day of 2021. There are 45 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1997: The Reggae Boyz qualify for the 1998 Fifa World Cup in France. OTHER EVENTS1532: In Peru, Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro takes Inca emperor A...

EIGHTY-THREE health-care workers at National Chest Hospital in Kingston last week expressed delight as they thanked Hope Gospel Assembly for bringing them gifts in kind as they continue to go above and beyond their call of duty to help ...

LONDON, England (AP) - British authorities raised the country's threat level to its second-highest rung yesterday after police said a blast in a taxi outside a Liverpool hospital that killed one man and injured another was caused by a h...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - With US prices rising at a rate not seen in decades, President Joe Biden's Administration is looking for ways to turn the tide.From relaxing tariffs on China to addressing the semiconductor shortage...

NEW DELHI, India (AP) - India yesterday began allowing fully vaccinated foreign tourists to enter the country on regular commercial flights, in the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions as infections fall and vaccinations rise.Touri...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - American journalist Danny Fenster, who spent nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar and was facing a sentence of 11 years of hard labour, was freed Monday and was on his way home.Fenster was handed ...

The dispute over the suspension of Merl Grove High School (MGHS) Principal Dr Marjorie Fullerton by the school board appears headed for the Supreme Court finale.Dr Fullerton, through her attorney, Dr Delroy Beckford, has applied for cou...

THE Government yesterday staunchly defended its use of states of emergency (SOEs) as an urgent tool to stem the tide of increasingly brutal murders across the island, with Prime Minister Andrew Holness painting a wretched picture of the...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says despite criticisms that crime-fighting strategies have failed, the Jamaica Constabulary Force should be commended for bringing to book some of the most dangerous gangs in the country, using limited res...

CAIRO, Egypt  (AP) - The son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi announced Sunday his candidacy for the country's presidential election next month, Libya's election agency said.Seif al-Islam, who is wante...

Today is the 319th day of 2021. There are 46 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2012: Oil giant BP agrees to plead guilty to a raft of criminal charges and pay a record US$4.5 billion in a settlement with the US Government over the ...

A local Christian group has criticised the appetite for some in the society for  pornography, saying it is has destructive psychological effects on children and adults, while it continues to fuel human trafficking in order to support t...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says the Government is not doing anything illegal or unconstitutional with the declaration of states of public emergency (SOEs) in seven police divisions in easte...

GOVERNMENT Senator Charles Sinclair, in what could be called a predictable tone, told the Senate on Friday that he would welcome the resumption of states of emergency (SOEs) in western parishes, including St James.Senator Sinclair, a fo...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Yesterday morning's arrival of the Emerald Princess at the Falmouth port - the first since March 2020 - was described by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett as a boost to the recovery of the sector which is set to welc...

THE Opposition People's National Party (PNP) said last night that it is deeply concerned that Government advised the governor general to declare a state of emergency (SOE) in seven police divisions even though the country is still waiti...

PARIS, France (AP) - Libyan leaders reaffirmed Friday in Paris their commitment to ensure the success of the country's political process through long-awaited elections next month, a vote that world powers hope will pull the oil-rich Nor...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) - The signs that an attack was imminent inside the largest prison in Ecuador's coastal city of Guayaquil could not have been clearer.There had been talk among inmates of the Litoral Penitentiary for days that a g...

LONDON, England (AP) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday hailed the UN climate summit as a "game-changing agreement" that sounded the "death knell for coal power", although he added that his delight at the progress on fight...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - President Joe Biden will announce steps today to improve public safety and justice for Native Americans during the first tribal nations summit since 2016, the White House said.Leaders from more than ...

BERLIN, Germany (AP) - The Austrian Government has ordered a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people starting at midnight Sunday to combat rising coronavirus infections and deaths.The move prohibits unvaccinated people 12 and older ...

New York, USA - Outspent and out-voted by a razor-thin margin in last week Tuesday's Democratic primary, Jamaican-born Dale Holness has vowed to continue his bid to sit in the United States Congress from Florida's 20th District."I have...

"This award acknowledges the leadership role that multilateral development banks can take in building climate resilient futures," said an elated Douglas Leys, QC, former Jamaican solicitor general, after grabbing the Global Leadership ...

MINISTER without portfolio in the Ministry of National Security Matthew Samuda says the Government is committed to continuously strengthening legislation to tackle the scourge of human trafficking in Jamaica."If we consider our history ...

Former Prime Minister PJ Patterson (left) and Shipping Association of Jamaica CEO Trevor Riley leaf through a copy of 4Runners, a new book celebrating the lives of Jamaica's fastest female Olympians of the 1940s through to the 1990s.Ril...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Annoyed at the length of time it is taking to have repairs done to roads in their divisions, two councillors in St Ann on Thursday vociferously made it clear that they have had enough. Representatives of both the rul...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - The Clarendon Municipal Corporation has ramped up efforts to take back its streets. The goal is to restore order to the town of May Pen ahead of the busy Christmas season. Over the past month, the enforcement team, ...

Using his bare hands, a paintbrush, roller or spray bottles, Anthony Smith is one of the muralists transforming graffiti-stained street walls and large drab structures across the island.Smith's latest canvass is the silo at Carib Cement...

BRINGING the curtains down on Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, Sandals South Coast, led by General Manager Adrian Whitehead, put a smile on the faces of breast cancer survivors in Westmoreland.The team visited communities and h...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Fishers who use the Pagee Fishing Village in Port Maria and the Government agency mandated with ensuring that the village is being efficiently used are at odds over the source of problems plaguing the facility. The...

FAMILY and friends of Malcolm Baptiste paid tribute to him last Friday during a thanksgiving service for his life at Parks Road New Testament Church in St Andrew.Baptiste, an affable Rastaman, passed away on October 14, 2021 after a lon...

THE Chain of Hope and Gift For Life Medical Mission returned to Jamaica after a nearly two-year hiatus to assist 12 children at the Bustamante Hospital for Children suffering from heart conditions.The mission, which has been conducting ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says the novel coronavirus pandemic is not only a threat to physical health, but fear, depression and anxiety, worry about loved ones, joblessness and financial...

Echoing the sentiments of concerned Jamaicans who have been calling increasingly for a crime plan in recent times, retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams posed the question: "Have we ever had a crime plan?"Adams, who said ...

Almost two years after four people were murdered, shocking the community of Dover in Kitson Town, St Catherine, residents say they still aren't able to recognise the cheerful community they once called home. The December 10, 2019 incid...

Mark Hansen is Noranda Bauxite's new big man in town and, as he gets ready to sail over the Atlantic and direct traffic from the company's St Ann plant, there are a few things that he is assuring Jamaicans of.One of them is that there w...

The chief executive of the company that operates a bauxite mining partnership with the Jamaica Government has said that there are no plans now to acquire other entities in the local sector.Rather, Mark Hansen wants to concentrate on bui...

Noranda Bauxite Company will continue to play its role as a firm builder of the Jamaican economy in a tangible way, even as some are critical of environmental issues alleged to be associated with it, the firm's chief executive officer ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - An incident last week inside a police station here may invite speculation and provide fodder for the spiritually unorthodox following the collapse and subsequent death of an accused man in the State facility.The ...

Deputy Superintendent of Police Dahlia Garrick wants Jamaicans to know that batons are still very much important tools as part of local policing.Garrick's enlightenment comes with what she has referred to as modernised police equipment ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Community members in sections of this western Jamaica town are bracing for a spate of reprisal killings, following Saturday morning's shooting death of three individials, including a physically challenged ...

The shame of the NHTThe National Housing Trust (NHT) was not established by the great Michael Manley while he served as Jamaica's fourth prime minister to cater to poor people alone. Let us be clear about that.It was set up to enable Ja...

Worldwide the prevalence of diabetes has increased over the years. In Jamaica, approximately 11.9 per cent of the population 15 years and older have diabetes. Women with gestational diabetes have a three-to-seven-fold increased risk for...

Since its establishment in 2016, Mountain View New Testament Church of God Academy has been providing free Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) classes to adult-students in and around eastern Kingston communities with the message: "Jesu...

A statement from Senate President Tom Tavares-Finson brought a surprisingly abrupt end to the issue of whether Opposition member Floyd Morris's plea for a postponement of the debate on the Road Traffic (Amendment) (RTA) Bill last Friday...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Opposition Leader Mark Golding is reasoning that the looming spending expected to accompany rehabilitation work to infrastructure damaged following the recent flooding in Montego Bay, could have been avoided, had...

Periodontitis is a common chronic inflammatory disease characterised by the destruction of the supporting structures of the teeth (the periodontal ligament and alveolar bone). It is highly prevalent (severe periodontitis affects 10 to 1...

Last week we looked at strategies for improving access and inclusive health-care post-pandemic. We examined ways to improve access post-pandemic; investments in digital health care to enhance the patient relationship and cost-effective ...

TODAY is World Diabetes Day and it provides an opportunity to raise awareness of diabetes as a global public health issue and what needs to be done, collectively and individually, for better prevention, diagnosis and management of the c...

I recently had a conversation with an 81-year-old retiree who feared that she will outlive her money. She was a participant on a virtual retirement seminar where I was one of the presenters.This elderly retiree made a bold decision to i...