FLORIDA, United States (CMC) - President of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) Nicola Madden-Greig is predicting a strong winter rebound for regional tourism, based on strong health protocols in place and the increase in...

THE Jamaica Association of Social Workers (JASW) is calling on community members to speak out against acts of violence and abuse against vulnerable persons, particularly children."There is a culture of silence in our communities that ne...

Today is the 321st day of 2021. There are 44 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS1993: The US House of Representatives approves the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico. OTHER EVENTS1534: British Parli...

Dear Mr Brown:I just received a study permit and I want to know whether I need to be vaccinated for COVID-19 in order to start classes. I plan on travelling to Canada in December. I will have hybrid classes for which some of my classes ...

A Youth of Excellence Empowerment Forum will take place today at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.The event is part of activities to mark International Men's Day (IMD) 2021, being observed on November ...

MINISTER of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange announced on the weekend that Jamaica is now a member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbea...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Mounds of garbage were removed from beaches in Buff Bay and Port Antonio last Saturday as residents piggy-backed on activities planned under the Jamaica Environmental Trust's (JET) Coastal International Clean Up...

MAY PEN, Clarendon- Thirty women and 10 girls from this parish who have been victims of domestic violence will benefit from assistance provided under the $10-million Spotlight Initiative. The help will come in the form of training that ...

CLERMONT-FERRAND, France (AFP) - Residents of a district in France's central Auvergne region are this week voting on a local issue with resonance - should the church bells be allowed to chime at night.The controversy began in spring whe...

BEIJING, China (AP) - China yesterday welcomed a virtual meeting between President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden as it raised hopes for better relations, while the US was more muted as the world's two biggest powers sought to ra...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Two explosions rocked Uganda's capital, Kampala, yesterday, killing at least three civilians in what police described as a coordinated attack by extremists opposed to the Government.Three suicide bombers also died...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish forces at the border with Belarus used a water cannon yesterday against stone-throwing migrants, as Warsaw accused Belarusian authorities of giving smoke grenades and other weapons to those trying to cross t...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) - Dutch police arrested 15 people in a town in the north of the Netherlands late Saturday during clashes with demonstrators who were protesting against a new partial lockdown.Police said that hundreds of peo...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - Residents of Washington, DC, will no longer be required to wear masks indoors as of next week, except in certain places like public transport and schools, the US capital's mayor said yesterday, as t...

The police are hunting a man who allegedly stabbed a woman 20 times and left her to die.He had threatened to kill her in April 2020 after she decided to end their relationship. His possessiveness, which permeated their relationship even...

A defence attorney yesterday sought to discredit the testimony of a former member of the Klansman gang-turned-State witness, suggesting that he had never been a don, as he has claimed.But the witness, who has been testifying from a remo...

The surge in consumer prices worsened in October setting up Jamaicans for a financially difficult Christmas season as basic items like food and the cost of transportation continue to rise. Businesses are also starting to worry that it ...

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...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Northern Caribbean University (NCU) says it is owed $577 million by hundreds of students. But, instead of delisting them, the Seventh-day Adventist-run college has been absorbing the cost of keeping them enrolle...

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...

The Union of Jamaican Alumni Associations (UJAA) last Wednesday continued its programme of helping students across the island with the presentation of 120 Learnit tablets to primary and basic schools.Representatives from Industry Cove ...

WHEN Ricardo Stephenson - a past student of the Enid Bennett High School - lost his life in a crash in the Bog Walk Gorge, St Catherine, last year, Patrina Nelson was devastated.His death prompted Nelson, who teaches at the institution,...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Ocho Rios's high number of COVID-19 cases has earned it a spot on the list of areas where vaccine ambassadors will be heavily relied upon. Health officials in this parish are banking on these influencers to help conv...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

KELLITS, Clarendon - Molannia Budram is wracked with guilt. A candle she lit is believed to be the cause of a fire that has left her children traumatised and her family homeless. "This is really bad because my eight-year-old daughter sa...

Police and soldiers check a motorist driving on Maxfield Avenue yesterday, the second day of the state of emergency declared by Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday. The SOE is in effect in St James, Hanover, Westmoreland, and the Ki...

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, ...