Michelle Chue-Sang Cooper, president, Camperdown Past Students Association, Florida Chapter (CASFLO), was in the island representing her alumni peers and delivered ICT gifts to the institution as it tries to cope with the changing hybr...

A power outage on Thursday at the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston, where 33 alleged members of the Klansman Gang are on trial, evoked a sarcastic "Science again" from accused leader of the criminal organisation Andre "Blackman" Bryan...

Residents and business owners in St Catherine, Jamaica, who are unfortunate enough to fall under the thumb of the notorious Klansman Gang know only too well what a call from "Lucifer" means.This is the evidence of Witness Number One, a...

The Dominican Republic on Wednesday immediately suspended all COVID-19 restrictive measures, joining a number of other countries, including alpine neighbours Switzerland and Austria which announced that they would drop almost all restr...

THE VM Group has partnered with Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS) in launching a pension scheme for public passenger vehicle (PPV) operators.Speaking at the launch of the pension plan at the group's Half-Way-T...

Policymakers on the parliamentary committee reviewing the 2015 Electricity Act are adamant that the Government must immediately hold talks with Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to remove the Right of First Refusal (ROFR) clause in i...

Today is the 49th day of 2022. There are 316 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2006: Muslim protesters attack Christians and burn churches when a march against cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad turns violent in north-eastern ...

SCORES of residents of Stony Hill in St Andrew West Rural will not benefit from free Wi-Fi as scheduled after criminals stole an access point from the facility hours before it was opened Thursday.Access points enable the reach of the fr...

THE Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Thursday called for the wearing of body cameras by members of the recently formed police/military anti-gang task force.Commissioner of INDECOM Hugh Faulkner told a virtual press con...

Chief public health inspector for Westmoreland Steve Morris has declared that the parish is experiencing an infestation of rats.During his report at the monthly meeting of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation last Thursday, Morris not...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Chairman of the St Mary Municipal Corporation Richard Creary is pushing for all government entities to lead by example and stop doing business with private companies that do not have trade licences. "No Government ...

Playing chickenWhat's happening with chicken prices? Too many politically vested interests are in the importation business. They don't seem to care about the population which depends heavily on chicken for protein. As long as they make ...

Technology giant Huawei has expressed confidence that the introduction of fifth generation (5G) technology can help industries implement new processes as an integral part of an energy efficiency programme by supporting the most efficie...

STATISTICS provided by the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) indicate that in the last five years more than half of women applicants were granted firearm licences.In a bid to dispel criticism that the FLA was biased against women in the...

MINISTER of Transport and Mining Audley Shaw hinted Thursday that there will be an increase in bus and taxi fares in the "near future".His announcement comes six months after there was a 15 per cent hike in fares which saw commuters pay...

THE signing of the salary agreement between Government and the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) has been rescheduled for Monday morning.Shaking off any unnecessary concerns about the delay, JTA President Winston Smith admitted Thursd...

Ambassador Paul Robotham says feelings of honour and humbleness came over him after he was awarded with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from the Japanese Government on Tuesday.Ambassador Robotham started out in the Min...

Approximately $99.6 million has been allocated to enhance resilience to climate change among targeted fishing and aquaculture communities in Jamaica under the Promoting Community-Based Climate Resilience and the Fisheries Sector Projec...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - The authorities enjoyed some success as they forced bus and taxi operators to use Linstead's two transportation hubs on Tuesday, but questions remain about whether the momentum will be sustained.To enforce the d...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Vendors at the Melrose Yam Park have benefited from economic enablement grants and other assistance totalling $800,000) after the facility was reopened last December, following a four-month closure.The yam park ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - While others were busy professing love for their partners on Valentine's Day, three teams from the Western Parks and Markets (WPM), the regional arm of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), took ...

KEDINE Wilson-Blair, the mother of 16-year-old Ne-Sean Blair, who was paralysed almost a year ago on his birthday by a gunman's bullet in New Hall district in Manchester, is beseeching government to implement stiffer penalties as well a...

Today is the 48th day of 2022. There are 317 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1990: East Germany announces it will tear down a 180-metre (600-foot) section of the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate, which will be the first sect...

WITNESS Number One - the former member of the St Catherine- based Klansman Gang who has been testifying against his cronies remotely since the trial began last September - yesterday jarred the court with his brave request to forsake his...

THE majority of children in the country's juvenile correctional system are falling through the cracks of the educational system, according to a recent report from the Department of Correctional Services (DCS).Between January and Decembe...

MOUNTAINSIDE, St Elizabeth - The parents of 18-month-old Shaleah Dobson were just too grief-stricken to attend her funeral service on Wednesday.The just under one-hour service, held at the Salvation Army Mountainside Corps, a small chur...

FEARLESS and feisty Winston Witter commanded the Jamaican media landscape like a colossus for more than three decades.From his early days fresh out of Kingston College to the Jamaica Daily News, The Gleaner, the Jamaica Record, the Sund...

APPROXIMATELY $290.5 million has been earmarked to continue implementation of the Jamaica Foundations for Competitiveness and Growth Project.The sum is programmed in the 2022/23 estimates of expenditure, now before the House of Represen...

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has become the first court in the region to be accepted into the prestigious International Consortium for Court Excellence (ICCE).The ICCE is an international network of courts and other organisation...

AS people in sections of St Mary and Portland continue to struggle in the wake of recent heavy rains, which caused flood damage, Food For the Poor (FFP) , operating in partnership with disaster relief agencies, has been bringing much-...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - The arrest of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and the images that followed - a leader shackled and paraded before the cameras like a common criminal - were a stunning reversal for a man who...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Councillor for the Prospect Division in the Portland Municipal Corporation Wayne McKenzie (PNP) is calling for the naming of the town square in Port Antonio, "Nanny Square", as the parish Legacy Project for Jama...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - The United States Embassy here says the decision to raise the Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag on its compound is to call attention to efforts to advance racial equity and access to justice in the United Sta...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Two men, including the husband of a woman, whose body was found hanging from a mango tree, have been remanded in prison until March 3, after appearing in court charged with her murder.Police have charged Diana...

SENIOR superintendent of police Dwight Powell is urging people who travel through St Ann, especially at night, to be cautious as criminals posing as cops have been committing several robberies in the parish.Powell, speaking at the month...

OTTAWA, Canada (AP) - Ottawa police trying to break the nearly three-week siege of the capital by truckers protesting Canada's COVID-19 restrictions began handing out leaflets Wednesday warning drivers to leave immediately or risk arres...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - President Joe Biden is ordering the release of Trump White House visitor logs to the House committee investigating the riot of January 6, 2021, once more rejecting former President Donald Trump's cla...

LUCEA, Hanover - Mayor of Lucea Sheridan Samuels has blasted the National Water Commission (NWC), describing the State-owned entity as "a menace to the society".Samuels was leading the charge as members of the Hanover Municipal Corporat...

SHANE Dalling and Dennis Meadows on Tuesday traded allegations of corruption at the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) in a war of words that appears headed for court as both men claim that their character and integrity are being besmirc...

A detective corporal assigned to the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime (C-TOC) branch of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) on Tuesday testified that he was the one who sought the help of Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldiers when ...

Today is the 47th day of 2022. There are 318 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1959: Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. OTHER EVENTS1804: US Marines slip into Tripoli harbour and burn US...

CUSTOMERS of Jamaica National Bank are being urged to be on the lookout for counterfeit manager's cheques."We have communicated with our members and the public to make them aware of the situation, and to urge vigilance when accepting ch...

CONCERNS raised by educators about the hardships facing students and promptings to adjust the administering of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations this year have found favour with the Ministry of Education.The performance task p...

IN one of his most important assignments since assuming the role of minister of transport and mining a month ago, Audley Shaw will be touring the Jamalco alumina plant in Halse Hall, Clarendon, today.Shaw told the Jamaica Observer yest...

A probe has been launched into the shooting of a policeman assigned to the St Catherine South Division on Monday night. A police report said the cop was driving his motorcycle when he was attacked on Municipal Boulevard in Portmore, St ...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Tempers flared during last Thursday's meeting of the Portland Municipal Corporation as councillors clashed over who is to be blamed for the failure to establish a transport centre in Port Antonio.Councillor for ...

EDUCATION Minister Fayval Williams Tuesday proposed an open call period of four weeks, with two weeks of advertisements, starting February 20, for submissions to the joint select committee of Parliament, which has been formed to review ...

LONDON, England (AFP) - A British man said he was left open-mouthed after Spanish authorities returned the false teeth he lost on a boozy night out in Benidorm 11 years ago, the BBC reported.Paul Bishop, 63, misplaced his teeth in the p...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Police here have vowed to increase their operations targeting black spots in this south-central parish even as they themselves face difficulty in apprehending motorcyclists in traffic stops.Corporal Albert Si...

AS Parliament grows more accommodating, with most of its committees being chaired by government Members of Parliament (MPs), members were positive about its performance up to the end of the 2021/22 session.Leader of Opposition Business ...