AMBER Innovations has launched a crowdfunding platform, Amber FundMe, which will, among other things, raise funds for small businesses, particularly charities, social enterprises, and non-profit organisations.According to Michael McNaug...

JOHN Joel Joseph, the former Haitian senator, along with his wife and two children who were arrested in south-east St Elizabeth on the weekend were Thursday ordered remanded when they appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court ...

NEW Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) chief Antonette Wemyss Gorman - the first woman to take the reins of the 60-year-old military body - says mulling over strategies to better support the island's national security apparatus to reverse the ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Minister of state in the Office of the Prime Minister, Western Region, Homer Davis, has disclosed that apart from the US$274.5-million contract which was signed last year for the Montego Bay Perimeter Road Projec...

THERE are more woes for the chief accountable officer in the education ministry, Dr Grace McLean, with Thursday's news of her interdiction in the matter involving the loss of $124 million in public funds to the Jamaica Council for Terti...

Walter "Ras Emmanuel" Duncan is a relieved man now that he no longer sleeps on a ledge on the waterfront in downtown Kingston.Duncan had spent many months over the past two years sleeping on a ledge, exposed to the elements.But, with as...

New York, USA - Two influential Jamaicans, who claim they have information linking prominent local officials to corruption and fraud, say they won't be accepting an invitation from the Integrity Commission to share their information in...

OCHO RIOS, Jamaica - "Richard is one of the recipients that I remain absolutely proud of up to this day. He has shown the tenacity to not only receive the scholarship, but was at all times willing and available to give back to those who...

Today is the 21st day of 2022. There are 344 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1990: East Germany's Communist Party expels Egon Krenz, the leader who oversaw opening of Berlin Wall. OTHER EVENTS1521: Pope Leo X excommunicates Germ...

YOUNGSTERS at Clifton Boys' Home in Darliston, Westmoreland, are set to receive an academic boost through proceeds of this year's National Leadership Prayer Breakfast.The donation will go towards the academic development plan at the hom...

Andrew Thomspon (right) and his son Andrew Thompson Jr from Sam Isaacs and Son Funeral Homepay their respect to their friend James "Jimmy" Moss-Solomon at the chapel on the University of theWest Indies's Mona campus in St Andrew on Thur...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Mia Mottley was sworn in as prime minister on Thursday afternoon, announcing that until she swears in her Cabinet next week, she will take responsibility for the health portfolio amid the ongoing novel coron...

REVEREND Dr Rohan Ambersley is calling on Jamaicans to press forward with the right actions as the country is suffering from the perpetuation of wrongdoings."We have underperformed despite the richness of our heritage, despite the skill...

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) - Cuban courts have wrapped up the hearing phase of six mass trials for people accused of involvement in the largest and most unruly protests on the island in decades, leaving more than 100 defendants awaiting potentia...

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Austria's Parliament voted Thursday to introduce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for adults from February 1, the first of its kind in Europe, with maximum potential fines of up to 3,600 Euros (US$4,000) for people who ...

ROSE HALL, St James - The St James Health Department has put the owners of the Sea Castles strata development on a watch list because of persistent problems with raw sewage seeping on to sections of the once-swanky property. The owners ...

MILE GULLY, Manchester - Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester North Western Mikael Phillips is calling on the Government to be more focused on rural development."We have to put rural development not only [as a] name in a ministry, b...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke has indicated that Jamaica collected $2 billion from the bauxite levy in late 2021.Clarke, who was responding to questions raised by the Opposition's spokesman on mining Phillip...

More than five months of complaints about raw sewage from businesses on Half-Way-Tree Road in the vicinity of the Cross Roads Market in Kingston have not invoked a sustainable response from the authorities, posing a health risk to peopl...

Concerned about the build up of traffic and the spread of the novel coronavirus in Ocho Rios, St Ann, Councilor Michael Belnavis (Ocho Rios, Jamaica Labour Party) is urging the police to clear the streets of the resort town of what he s...

Commodore Antonette Wemyss-Gorman (left) participates in Wednesday's rehearsal at Up Park Camp, headquarters of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), ahead of Friday's chief of defence staff change of command. She will become the first woman...

Chief public health inspector for St Mary, Rupert Stephens, has appealed for councillors in this parish to help him lobby for the re-engagement of 60 temporary workers to assist in tackling the parish's mosquito problem.According to St...

Adam Stewart (centre), executive chairman of ATL Automotive Group, cuts the ceremonial ribbon at the launch of ATL Automotive Bodyworks in Montego Bay, St James, Wednesday. From left: Patrick Wilson, group managing director at ATL Autom...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - A change of routine may well have resulted in the tragic death of a one-year-old girl after she was left for hours unattended in her father's car.A relative who asked not to be named told the Jamaica Observer...

MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for St Andrew East Rural Juliet Holness has demanded an apology for former chairman of the HEART/NSTA Trust Edward Gabbidon for what she believes is the injustice meted out to him in the court of public opinion...

The Port Antonio Hospital has received another defibrillator from the Lions Club of Port Antonio.The donation was made last Thursday after the club received a donation from a Jamaican who now lives overseas.In making the presentation, ...

THE employment contract of Dr Janet Dyer, former head of the HEART/NSTA Trust, which has been at the centre of controversy in recent months, was not renewed after she admitted to authorising salaries in April 2020 for senior management ...

A man was injured following a drive-by shooting which took place on Rousseau Road in St Andrew Wednesday afternoon.According to a police source, the man was taken to hospital after the incident, which occurred in front of Wilso's Saloon...

QUICK action from firefighters from the Half-Way-Tree, York Park and Trench Town fire stations i n Kingston and St Andrew wasn't enough to save Best Radiator from being destroyed by fire at Bronstorph Square in Washington Boulevard, St ...

THE new headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, located at 2 Port Royal Street, downtown Kingston, was officially named The Hugh Lawson Shearer Building, in honour of the late former prime minister, on Wednesd...

Jamaica is expected to start receiving three flights per week from the European countries of Belgium and the Netherlands.Flights are scheduled to land in Montego Bay, St James, by TUI Belgium and TUI Netherlands by April of this year.T...

SEVERAL schools in the Corporate Area are pushing ahead with face-to-face classes despite the sharp rise of COVID-19-positive cases in the past two weeks. Some parents, as well as doctors, have, however, questioned whether physical clas...

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

Today is the 20th day of 2022. There are 345 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1998: Dr James Robl at the University of Massachusetts and Dr Steven Stice of Advanced Cell Technology Inc announce that they have successfully cloned t...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) - Face masks will no longer be mandatory in public places and COVID-19 passports will be dropped for large events as infections level off in most parts of the country, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sai...

BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - The police in this parish will be keeping an eye out for certain models of cars as they step up efforts to curb crime and dampen the increasing number of fatalities on the roads. "We are trying to do traffic enfor...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - More than 1,000 pregnant women in Trinidad and Tobago have contracted COVID-19 since the first case linked to the pandemic was detected here two years ago, a senior medical official said Wednesday.The dire...

LUCEA, Hanover - The police high command is now investigating allegations that a senior cop, attached to the Hanover Police Division, hosted a party in the parish recently."I can't say if this happened but I will definitely look into it...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Amid mounting pressure for an adjustment to make other crime-riddled Westmoreland communities become part of the zone of special operations (ZOSOs) declared in south Savanna-la-Mar on Sunday, National Sec...

Corporal Rohan James, chairman of the Jamaica Police Federation, has said it appears the current Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government has broken the promise it made when in Opposition in 2016, of ensuring proper remuneration for rank ...

ST Catherine Member of Parliament Dr Andrew Wheatley said Tuesday 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...