Karen Richards (left), assistant vice-president, investment client services, Sagicor Investments Jamaica, on behalf of the Sagicor Foundation, presents grocery vouchers valued at more than $700,000 as a Christmas gift to health-care wor...

Today is the 363rd day of 2021. There are two days left in the year.Today's Highlight2001: A series of firework explosions spark a massive fire in downtown Lima, Peru, killing 291 people. The blaze, fuelled by dozens of sidewalk stands ...

Local health authorities are examining the most recent recommendation by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Preventi on (CDC) for isolation periods for people in that population who test positive for the novel coronaviru...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - The main Opposition Democratic labour Party (DLP) has blamed a non-caring Prime Minister Mia Mottley for calling a snap general election in the midst of a pandemic and urged supporters to boot the ruling Bar...

Aaron Morgan admits he is still tormented by the shooting death of his girlfriend by a policeman five months ago.On Saturday, the pain deepened as it was the first time in 15 years that he was spending Christmas without the 35-year-old ...

PARIS, France (AFP) - How we laughed in 2021! Yes, the year was plagued by COVID19, fires and floods... but it did throw up some weird and wonderful news to lift the spirits. Here is our selection:A final leakThere was only so long US S...

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) - The Office of the Attorney General has been consulted for legal guidance after a gas tanker which was "rear-ended" by a 207-foot super yacht sank off the coast of New Providence last Friday, according to a statem...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) - Police are searching for gunmen who shot and killed seven passengers and injured several others in two incidents on Monday.Authorities said that the gunmen, who had hidden themselves in houses, fired upon t...

It's the season for giving and Free Likkle Cupboard's founder De-Andrea Jackson decided to build a donation cupboard in Rae Town, Kingston, just in time for the Christmas season. According to the organisers, the cupboard is stocked wit...

EduCom Co-operative Credit Union recently raised over $243 million in capital through a private deferred share offer to its members and other member organisations that closed on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Brokerage firm MoneyMasters ...

Dear Mr Brown:I am seeing that the Canadian high commission is refusing a lot of visas and permits during the pandemic. When do think this will end? I find the whole situation frustrating.- MVDear MV:I can understand your frustration. P...

Despite a year-long conflict that has made Ethiopia a bloody battlefield, Ricaldo "Rusty Zebulun" Marsh has no regrets about moving to the East African country. In fact, he said living there "is my childhood dream fulfilled".Marsh spoke...

Cannabis product company Jacana says it has made big gains this year with the opening of two new stores and the inclusion of its organic Cannabidiol (CBD) products at Sandals' Red Lane Spa in November across all the resort group's locat...

BERLIN, Germany (AP) - In Germany, Lutheran pastors are offering COVID-19 shots inside churches. In Israel's science-sceptical, ultra-Orthodox community, trusted rabbis are trying to change minds. And in South Africa, undertakers are ta...

VERMONT, United States (AP) - Early in the new year, the Vermont House of Representatives is due to begin debate on an amendment that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution and send the question to voters in the ...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Russia's highest court on Tuesday shut down one of the country's oldest and most prominent human rights organisations, the latest move in a relentless crackdown on rights activists, independent media and o ppositi...

IN the midst of the usually festive Christmas season, sections of the financial sector in Jamaica continue to reel from a fallout caused by the central bank's decision to suspend the remittance and cambio licence of Alliance Financial S...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - One Christmas Day in the 1980s, Desmond Tutu led a packed church service in Soweto, the black Johannesburg township and fulcrum of protest against white racist rule in South Africa. An American family -...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - She became a vaccine celebrity by accident. Since being hailed as the first person in the United States to get a COVID-19 vaccine, New York nurse Sandra Lindsay has become a prominent face in the country's...

Today is the 362nd day of 2021. There are three days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1981: Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.OTHER EVENTS1065: The original Westminster Abbey, locate...

BUFF BAY, Portland - Lawmen stationed at Buff Bay Police Station moved into the newly built facility on Christmas Eve, eight days after it was officially declared open.As they get settled in, they are still waiting for their phone lines...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - For the past 12 years Belair Early Childhood and Preparatory School in Mandeville has been bringing Christmas cheer to the Salvation Army's Hanbury Home.The home, which now caters to 21 children - six girls and ...

The residents and staff at five children's homes in St Andrew, St Catherine, Clarendon, Trelawny, and St James kicked off their holiday celebrations last week with specially catered meals and gifts from Pizza Hut Jamaica.More than 160 ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - Trinidad and Tobago registered 610 deaths so far this month from the novel coronavirus pandemic, making it so far the worst month since the first case was registered here in March last year.Last month Tri...

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) - Two Democratic Caribbean legislators have paid tribute to the late South African born Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whose civil and human rights work helped to end ap...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - United States health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the novel coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close c ontacts need to quarant...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Jacquline Baker, a mother of two, recalls that six years ago her husband lost his sight and was no longer able to work.It's been a traumatising time for her and her family these last few years, as they try to ...

BEIJING, China (AP) - Delta Air Lines said yesterday that new pandemic-related cleaning requirements at a Shanghai airport were behind the turning back of a recent flight from Seattle in midair, a move that had prompted a protest from t...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) - Prime Minister Mia Mottley Monday night announced a snap general election for January 19, next year, more than a year before it is constitutionally due.In a national broadcast, Mottley, the first woman to h...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Sharn Michael Dougl as of Red Light District, Irish Town, St Andrew, died Sunday when the motorcycle he was riding crashed at Snow Hill in Portland.Douglas was reportedly driving his motorcycle along the Snow Hi...

A shipment of self-administered COVID-19 test kits are to arrive in the island later this week as the health ministry moves to incorporate home testing as part of the national strategy for self-monitoring and virus transmission risk red...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Hoteliers in this resort town say they have not seen bookings being cancelled at an alarming rate due to a surge in the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus across the globe.The new variant comes at a time whe...

THE Government is being urged to move urgently in the new year to amend the Domestic Violence Act so as to make it easier for perpetrators to be convicted even if the victim decides not to continue with the case.Opposition junior shadow...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - The Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) has filed a class action lawsuit against the Biden Administration alleging abuse of asylum-seeking Haitians whose rights, it said, had been violated when they were ...

TWO Jamaicans living in the United States, and who say they have information linking prominent local officials to corruption and fraud, are being invited to contact the Integrity Commission and share what they know.The two - Wilfred Rat...

RICHARD Goulbourne knew that successfully completing law school would make his mother tremendously proud. With diligence, consistency and faith, the 24-year-old did just that as he was called to the Jamaican Bar on December 16."She was ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - The legacy of Archbishop Desmond Tutu's activism for equality continues to reverberate among young South Africans, many of whom were not born when the clergyman battled apartheid. South Africa is holdin...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has welcomed the World Health Organization (WHO) listing earlier this week of an AstraZeneca vaccine produced in Latin America, saying it is already in us...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) - The Episcopal Conference of Haiti (ECH) Friday expressed concern at the ongoing economic, political and security crisis in the French-speaking Caribbean Community country calling on the authorities to assum...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The outgoing chairman of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Monday described 2021 as a "very challenging year" for the 15-member regional integration grouping.Browne, who is the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The bitter cold of Afghanistan's winter has small children huddled beneath blankets in makeshift camps. Sick babies in hospitals lie wrapped in their mothers' all-enveloping burqas. Long lines at food distribut...

Kaysia Kerr (right), CEO of the National Parenting Support Commission, gleefully examines one of five laptops presented by Charmaine Edmondson-Nelson, resource planning and administration senior specialist of the Inter-American Developm...

Workmen clear garbage outside Cornation Market in downtown Kingston, yesterday, two days after thousands of people did heavy Christmas Eve shopping in the city's market district.(Photo: Karl Mclarty)

THE Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) warned yesterday that all COVID-19 safety measures that will keep teachers, support workers, and students safe must be guaranteed prior to the resumption of classes for the new term in January."No...

A man teaches a boy to ride his bicycle, his Christmas gift, on Cassava Piece Road in St Andrew yesterday.(Photo: Karl Mclarty)

THE Alpha Institute had its wishes granted to the tune of $250,000 on Tuesday, December 14, 2021, after it was chosen as pick for the 2021 'Grant a Wish' programme by National Commercial Bank Jamaica (NCBJ) CEO Septimus "Bob" Blake, who...

He is so sweet! State Minister in the ministry of Health and Wellness Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn (right) presents a gift to Denesha Simmonds (left) in celebration of the arrival of her baby boy, Thabang Jordine, who was born at 1:20 am Chris...

Today is the 361st day of 2021. There are four days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1831: The Christmas Rebellion begins at Kensington Estate, Montego Bay.OTHER EVENTS1741: Prussian forces take Olmutz, Czechoslovakia; Spanish troops l...

THE Caribbean Community (Caricom) said in a statement yesterday that it is profoundly saddened by the death of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa."Archbishop Tutu's strong moral voice was a very significant factor in the s...

CULTURE Minister Olivia "Babsy" Grange yesterday gave tribute to the late Archbishop of South Africa and 1994 Nobel Peace Awardee Desmond Tutu, who died yesterday in Cape Town, South Africa, at the age of 90. "He was widely regarded for...