Fourteen bargaining units yesterday inked a wage agreement with the Government giving public sector workers a four per cent increase for a year.However, Senior Uniform Officers Association President Leslie Campbell said, while it is a p...

That the day news broke of the murder of a man believed to have appeared in a viral video drinking blood from a goat's skull was the same day a Crown witness in the trial of the 33 accused members of the Klansman gang detailed a similar...

Colleagues and friends of award-winning local journalist Kirk Wright have been praying for and wishing him a speedy recovery after he was stabbed during what the police suspect was a domestic dispute in St Catherine yesterday. Up to pr...

Government backbencher Heroy Clarke's plan to take to Parliament a motion calling for DNA paternity testing at birth is being embraced by some Jamaicans who have indicated concern that "too much jacket a run" - a reference to the prac...

Manchester taxi driver Kirk was having one of his usual days - transporting passengers to and from the taxi stand in Mandeville - when tragedy of the worst kind hit him so hard that he is still shaken, three months later.On that da...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Guyana is open to the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 pill Paxlovid, once it receives approval, and private sector pharmaceutical companies could possibly manufacture it here.Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony sai...

STATE minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information Robert Nesta Morgan says Jamaicans can and should do more to protect each other's children.In his message to mark World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse yesterday, ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Jamaica is stepping up efforts to get a share of the US$4.3-trillion global health and wellness tourism market by promoting the country as the number one health destination in the region. "In global tourism, heal...

YOUNG men are being encouraged to cultivate a mindset of excellence in all that they do and to always focus on the positives.These words of encouragement came from acting policy analyst and focal point for the Men and Masculinity Progra...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) says it will host a virtual town hall to address concerns from regional stakeholders about COVID-19 vaccination for children in the five- to 11-year-...

OLD Bay Fishing Beach in Whitehouse, Westmoreland, now has a fresh look, thanks to Sandals Foundation volunteers who turned their attention to the south-east coast during International Coastal Clean-up Day, recently.International Coasta...

WILLIAMSFIELD, Westmoreland - Mabel Forbes, the mother of trainee police Constable Duvaughn Brown who was shot dead in this community Wednesday night, said she was on the verge of meting out jungle justice on one of three men accused of...

Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) has refuted the majority of the main findings of a special audit on its operations between 2016 and 2021 carried out by the Auditor General's Department (AuGD).The report, tabled in the House of Representat...

The attorney representing Stephanie Christie, the sole woman among 33 people now on trial accused of being members of the feared Klansman gang, yesterday went to great lengths to present his client as a dedicated church and community wo...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he has asked Mining Minister Robert Montague for a report of the controversial developments at Clarendon Alumina Partners (CAP), also known as Jamalco, and has directed that a contract at the centre o...

Chairman of the board of Jamaica College (JC) Michael Bernard has denied media reports surrounding the continuation of special leave for embattled principal and former education minister Ruel Reid, who is before the court on criminal c...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - With $1.4 billion spent and five years of delays, taxpayers will have to find an additional $1.6 billion for the penultimate phase of work being done on problem-plagued Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in this ci...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday claimed that, but for Westmoreland, the states of emergency (SOEs) that were declared in seven police division across the island on Sunday have been having a "dampen...

FLOWER HILL, St James - A stickler for good education up to 2017 when he died, Oscar Rhoden would have been proud of the academic feats of his son Adrian.The youngster left Cornwall College in St James this year with grade one - the bes...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - With the deadline for local government elections just three months away, p resident of the People's National Party (PNP) Mark Golding says its campaign is intensifying.Amendments to the Representation of the Pe...

Today is the 323rd day of 2021. There are 42 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1862: Castleton Botanical Gardens in St Mary is established. OTHER EVENTS1919: The US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles, one of the peace treatie...

Chairman of Jamaica National (JN) Foundation Parris Lyew Ayee Sr says the country is at risk of not meeting the national objective of universal access to water for all Jamaicans by 2030 without an integrated water resources management p...

FORMER managing director of the Water Resources Authority Basil Fernandez is recommending that instead of waiting for funding from rich donors to implement climate change mitigation works, Jamaican authorities should use locally develop...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Opposition Leader Mark Golding has continued to blast the Government over what he describes as hypocrisy on environmental protection.Golding, who is president of the People's National Party, made the criticism w...

A St Ann-based retiree Daphne Francis and a St Elizabeth businessman Dwayne Powell have been announced as the grand prize winners of Scotiabank's Activate Your Power promotion. Francis won a 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport Utility Vehic...

ENERGY consumption at six pubic hospitals is expected to decline by 22 per cent annually following the installation of solar energy and renewable energy systems at the facilities.Under the Deployment of Renewable Energy and Energy Effic...

Jamaica has been elected the Caribbean vocal for the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Group of Experts Americas Regional Committee.As the Caribbean vocal, Jamaica is now the official representative of th...

COMMUNICATIONS specialists and public relations professionals Stacy-Ann Smith and Michelle-Ann Letman have joined forces through a partnership with their businesses - DanRak Productions and PR Belle Media - to produce and share content ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Chinese coast guard ships blocked and sprayed a powerful stream of water at two Philippine boats carrying supplies to troops at a disputed South China Sea shoal, prompting Manila to order Beijing's ships to ba...

NASHVILLE, United States (AP) - New measures that restrict how race is addressed in classrooms have spread confusion and anxiety among many educators, who, in some cases, have begun pulling books and cancelling lessons for fear of being...

THE Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF) has called for changes to labour laws to increase the number of days which employees can be laid off before they have to be re-engaged by companies.Addressing the Economy and Production Committee ...

Director general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Dr Wayne Henry says that the longer the Jamaican economy takes to recover from the novel coronavirus pandemic could create what he describes as a "permanent scarring".Explaini...

CHIEF executive officer at National Irrigation Commission Joseph Gyles is recommending that education about irrigation be broadened at secondary-level institutions to encourage better use of the system across the populace."I believe in ...

THE prosecution's second witness in the trial involving 33 alleged members of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang yesterday scoffed at suggestions that he had been motivated by malice to implicate one of the accused, a former friend, b...

RESIDENTS of Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) member countries are being encouraged to take the necessary steps to safeguard themselves against coronavirus (COVID-19) infection during the upcoming holiday season.The period, for s...

MAJORITY of the executive members of the Jamaica College Old Boys' Association (JCOBA) and the Jamaica College Parent-Teachers' Association (JC PTA) have reportedly resigned in protest over the five-year special leave extension granted ...

SECTOR leaders are now calling on the Government to give firm and clear guidance to companies on how to proceed with COVID-19 vaccination policies for the workplace.Yesterday, at a meeting of the economy and production committee of Parl...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Kamina Johnson Smith (left) and Norway's Ambassador to Jamaica Beate Stirø aboard the Norwegian research ship, the Statsraad Lehmkuhl, on Saturday, which is docked at Port Royal in ...

Jamaican footballer Leon Bailey (left) gives a kiss to his girlfriend Stephanie Hope, while Alexi Nunes, ESPN sports journalist, is excited to see Bailey's son, Leo Cristiano, after the World Cup qualifer against the USA Tuesday at the ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is predicting economic growth of more than eight per cent for Jamaica this year, but warned that while the economy is recovering the novel coronavirus pandemic ...

Today is the 322nd day of 2021. There are 43 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1978: A total of 912 people die in Jonestown, Guyana, after People's Temple cult leader Jim Jones convinces most followers to kill themselves by drinkin...

CHIEF executive officer of the Real Estate Board Sandra Garrick is urging real estate professionals to utilise the guidance that anti-money laundering (AML) inspectors provide to ensure compliance with the law.She is also encouraging me...

THREE hospitals have reported a downward trend in the number of COVID-19 patients, even as the country anticipates a possible fourth wave of the novel coronavirus.The health-care facilities are Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester...

NURSES and other medical staff of the St Ann Health Department were praised on Monday for their dedication and selfless sacrifice in the fight against the novel coronavirus.The tribute was paid at the second vaccination drive hosted by ...

The American Government recently deepened its partnership with Jamaican law enforcement with the creation of a digital handbook designed to help local investigators strengthen their preparation of case files in criminal matters.Accordin...

THE Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) says names of approximately 150,000 deceased people have been removed from the voters list through its dead elector removal' programme.Director of Elections Glasspole Brown, who made the disclosure ...

Manager at the Trafficking in Persons Secretariat in the Ministry of National Security Chenee Russell Robinson says discussions are under way to establish another shelter for victims of human trafficking."We currently have one shelter, ...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - The National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC) said it is helping to seek humanitarian assistance for a family that has been served notice to vacate the public agency's land near Linstead Fire Stat...

EDUCATION, Youth and Information Minister Fayval Williams has sought to assure parents that the compulsory Sixth-Form Pathway Programme will better prepare students for higher-level academics or entry into the workforce.The new initiati...