ST Catherine Member of Parliament Dr Andrew Wheatley said Tuesay that the Government is convinced that the municipality of Portmore deserves the right to become Jamaica's first new parish in 155 years."I am not a sentimental man but as ...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - The Black River Hospital (BRH) has benefited from donations aimed at improving health care in rural Jamaica. On Wednesday, January 12, the hospital received two phototherapy lamps for its Paediatric Unit from...

THE Integrity Commission has referred a report to the Attorney General's Department and the Ministry of Finance for action to be taken against the chief executive officer of the St Ann Municipal Corporation for breaches of government gu...

NEWLY minted Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte says her ministry will take on the task of fixing the current "chaos" in the legislative process, which has, among other things, seen significant lag in the...

STRATHBOGIE, Westmoreland - Seven-year-old Nayla often prayed God would keep her mother, 25-year-old Shadae Foster, safe. Now the young girl and the rest of her family are looking to Him for strength to cope with Foster's gruesome murd...

MOORE PARK, St James - It was a very solemn thanksgiving service at Hillview Memorial Gardens here for Taneka Gardner, who was, on Sunday, October 17, 2021, killed during a ritual at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries...

Today is the 19th day of 2022. There are 346 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2004: A Japanese team that returns from a mission to investigate the United States' first confirmed case of mad cow disease warns that American and Canad...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police here say they are responding with intelligence-driven operations to concerns about migrant criminals committing crimes in the south-central parish.Speaking at last Thursday's monthly meeting of the local ...

THE finance ministry is mulling over whether surcharge action is to be taken against responsible officers, in the loss of $8.6 million in overpayments by the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), to five former employees between May and Oc...

OPPOSITION spokesman on health Dr Morais Guy says the health conditions of people with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) will worsen with public hospitals being restricted to deal with only emergency cases.The Ministry of Health and Well...

As many of the 3,449 Jamaicans left homeless due to fires between 2020 and 2021 can attest, recovering from a blaze that consumed almost everything you own is not easy.Invariably, after a fire, there are anguished appeals for help and a...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The fast-moving Omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the US are climbing and modellers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Councillors from both political sides of the Manchester Municipal Corporation are in disagreement over the proposed reopening of the Waltham abattoir, a slaughterhouse and meat processing facility in Mandeville,...

LOCAL placement agencies could see more students participating in this year's BridgeUSA programme when compared to the last two years which have been impacted by the novel coronavirus pandemic.But Cavalee Freeman, public relations offic...

NOT a day goes by without Louise Lawrence giving her crops a warm greeting before tending to them at her greenhouse in Watt Town, St Ann.Conversing with the plants, she believes, will help them to produce in abundance."I tell them 'Good...

RAPOSA SERRA DO SOL, Brazil (AP) - The mining encampment that stretches across a mountainside in Brazil's Amazon is dotted with plastic tarpaulin covers. Under them, dozens of men toil in rocky pits, excavating sacks of ore to be transp...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - THIRTY-FIVE junior managers and supervisors who recently completed the leadership bootcamp at Sandals Montego Bay have given a thumbs up to the groundbreaking development programme.The intensive 12-week initiativ...

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...