Retired Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Newton Amos wants cops to automatically qualify for private gun licences, and for it to be mandatory for civilians seeking to become legal gun owners to formally become part of the country...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - The police say they are reaping success in sections of the Savanna-la-Mar South area of this parish which is currently in its second day under a zone of special operations (ZOSO). More than 20 persons of i...

LOCAL businesswoman Kareema Muncey has called on the Government to implement a no-discrimination policy in the workplace and in schools to protect the rights of women who identify themselves as Muslims in Jamaica.Muncey, the chief execu...

THE South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has frozen all leave applications and directed health-care workers on non-essential leave to return to work as its facilities buckle under the weight of the fourth wave of the novel coron...

SENIOR defence attorney Lloyd McFarlane has disputed talk that there is bias amongst defendants towards jury trials, instead asserting that dates for judge alone trials are being taken up rapidly.In an interview with the Jamaica Observe...

Today is the 18th day of 2022. There are 347 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2007: A woman who disappeared in the jungles of north-eastern Cambodia is found 19 years later. The woman - identified as Rochom P'ngieng, 27 - does not...

COMMISSIONER Of Police Major General Antony Anderson says the seventh zone of special operations (ZOSO) declared in Parade Gardens, Kingston, is yielding some results.The ZOSO was declared by Prime Minister Andrew Holness on January 9. ...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Even as the country faces an upsurge in murders, new head of the St Elizabeth police Superintendent Dwight Daley is confident that the south-central parish will continue to benefit from the gains of his prede...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Councillor for the Hayes Division, Scean Barnswell (PNP) has expressed doubt in this parish's May Pen and Lionel Town hospitals' ability to take on the additional patient load by the time the fourth wave of the pand...

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) - New York police have arrested and charged a Jamaican-born man in the deadly shooting of a 19-year-old restaurant manager in East Harlem, Manhattan.Police have detained, without bail, Winston Glynn, 30, ch...

GOVERNMENT Senator Kavan Gayle says that flexible work arrangements (FWA) have become more relevant to Jamaica's labour relations since the current COVID-19 crisis, than they has ever been.Pushing for increased reference to these arrang...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Forced to take pictures to prove her team is working so she could hold on to her job, National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) Zonal Manager Opal Samuels has hit back at constant criticism from the Clarendo...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The Guyana Government Monday confirmed that 15 children have died as a result of the novel coronavirus, since the country recorded its first case of the virus in March 2020.Overall, Guyana has registered 1,905...

JN Foundation says it will commence a new round of efforts to encourage and assist to increase the numbers of Jamaicans vaccinated, with just under 1,400 people vaccinated over the past three months through its series of immunisation dr...

EFFECTIVE today, the Transport Authority will commence examination of buses and taxis in preparation for the renewal of road licences which expire on March 31, 2022. The early start of examinations is to facilitate the timely submission...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - A dangerous winter storm brought significant snowfall, strong thunderstorms and blustery winds to the north-eastern US on Monday, a public holiday.A foot (30 centimetres) or more of snow fell in parts of N...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched the "Future Tourism Programme" aimed at addressing the technological transformation of tourist destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean ...

CHRISTAL Saunders is now on the brink of realising her dream of becoming a nurse, having received a scholarship valued at $480,000 that will see her completing two years of studies at the Institute of Career Choice in Clarendon.Having r...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Having lost her husband to lung cancer on the second day of the new year, 67-year-old Denese Nesbeth from Fort William in this parish is longing to reconnect with friends and relatives she has not seen for...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that his country will send an additional one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine to other countries, calling for global cooperation to tackle the pandemic and other chall...

ATLANTA, United States (AP) - Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King Jr,, delivering jobs and justice and protecting "the sacred right to vote, a right from which all other rights flow", President Joe Biden s...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A drone attack claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeting a key oil facility in Abu Dhabi killed three people on Monday and sparked a fire at Abu Dhabi's international airport.Emirati police identified...

Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson says that the expanding intelligence capacity of Jamaica's security forces is making the country unsafe for fugitives.Speaking at the media briefing on Sunday during which Prime Minis...

Jamaica College old boys of the Class of '79, (from left) Dr Derrick Mcdowell, Anthony Simpson and Patrick Thomas, make a presentation to the school's Principal Wayne Robinson towards its staff incentive programme.(Photo: Karl Mclarty) ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - There were mixed reactions in Savanna-la-Mar on Sunday following the announcement by Prime Minister Andrew Holness that a crime-plagued section of the town had been declared a zone of special operations (Z...

Today is the 17th day of 2022. There are 348 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2012: Scientists confirm that 15 pounds (7 kilogrammes) of rock collected recently in Morocco fell to Earth from Mars during a meteorite shower last Jul...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared that "partisan and political" considerations did not influence his decision to retain Dr Horace Chang as minister of national security in his recent shuffle of his Cabinet.Holness has faced cri...

LOS ANGELES, US (AP) - On an isolated farm, greenhouses stand in regimental order, sheltered by a fringe of trees. Inside are hundreds of head-high cannabis plants in precise rows, each rising from a pot nourished by coils of irrigation...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday moved to staunch the bloodletting in Westmoreland, where several murders and shootings have been reported since the start of this year, by declaring a section of Savanna-la-Mar a zone of special o...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton is warning the country to brace for significant delays at hospitals as the fourth COVID-19 wave reduces the availability of staff."The rapid spread of the wa...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - The tsunami threat around the Pacific from a huge undersea volcanic eruption receded yesterday, but the massive ash cloud covering the tiny island nation of Tonga prevented surveillance flights from New Ze...

The seventh-largest airline in North America based on passengers carried, JetBlue Airways, is set to ramp up its number of daily flights to Jamaica.In what is being hailed as a huge boost to Jamaica's tourism industry, JetBlue will, by ...

RESIDENTS of Portmore, St Catherine, could see a relief of traffic congestion in coming months, as there will be expansions of several roads in the community. Communications manager at National Works Agency (NWA) Stephen Shaw told the J...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - The Jamaica Fire Brigade's Acting Divisional Commander for Westmoreland Rudolph Seaton has dismissed claims that a faulty fire hydrant has led to loss of lives in the Grange Hill Division. But Seaton has a...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - A number of locally elected officials in this parish are growing increasingly concerned that positive results from self-test COVID-19 kits are not being reported to the health ministry, with one councillor calling f...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Pointing to migration as the primary reason behind almost all the resignations from her team, the head of the St Mary Police Division has called for more cops to be deployed here to help maint ain the downward tren...

Effectively pitching one's ideas is a practical life skill and, if left up to serial entrepreneur James LaLonde, one that will see a global uplift this year.LaLonde, a China-based American with an aptitude for scaling start-ups, is the ...

DRAX HALL, St Ann - There is a strong level of support for the explosion in commercial development happening at Drax Hall along a section of the highway between the bustling St Ann towns of Ocho Rios and St Ann's Bay."We welcome the dev...

Clothes vendors selling in Christiana Market in Manchester are clamouring for more shops and stalls to conduct their businesses.But municipal and commercial services manager at Manchester Municipal Corporation Janice Mundle told the Jam...

Jhenelle Small has never been one to shy away from leadership and advocating for the rights of others.With that drive, the 22-year-old has always been eager to grab those opportunities as they come along.Small has been selected as the y...

 T he Indian High Commission in Jamaica last Sunday marked Diaspora Day, a celebration of 176 years of Indians in Jamaica, with a social event held at the high commissioner's offices in St Andrew.A small number of people turned out to...

A Cabinet shuffle that wounded JamaicaIt took me two days for the foolishness that Prime Minister Holness did last Monday to sink in.And even at this point, I am hoping that someone will step forward and say, it was all a dream.I even h...

TWO pastors have jumped to the defence of Prime Minister Andrew Holness, saying there should be space for a national leader to be emotional or even cry publicly. This comes after three ex-policemen criticised Holness's display of emotio...

The second Haitian president assassination suspect to be caught in Jamaica paid handsomely to get here with his family by sea, and tried to bribe law enforcers who arrested him early Saturday morning in a St Elizabeth village in south-...

Having survived three near-death experiences that have left him unable to use the right side of his body, Manchester-based journalist Glendon Baker is encouraging others to prevent lifestyle illnesses by adopting early practices such as...

The combined blow of the novel coronavirus has wreaked havoc on cervical cancer screening programmes, which are already sparse in low- and middle-income nations.Screening through pap smears is key to the prevention and early detection ...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Safety and security in this south-central parish is being boosted courtesy of the efficiency and quick response of the police by way of technological assistance through the Government's JamaicaEye initiative....

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang says legislative reform is needed to treat people differently from those who smuggle ganja for guns and those who plant for other uses.Speaking at the St Elizabet...

Friendship is constant In all things,Save in the officeAnd affairs of love.- Shakespeare, Much Ado About NothingYes indeed, friendship is constant, except in the office and affairs of love. That has proven to be true so many times, for...

At the start of the novel coronaviruspandemic arou nd March into April 2020, J Wray & Nephew embarked on a work-off-site programme for around 70 per cent of its staff, who were outfitted with the requisite tools to get the job done...