WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - US airport security procedures will become more gender-neutral, with changes to scanners used for screening and the use of an "X" for travellers going through pre-check who do not identify as male or f...

Today is the 96th day of 2022. There are 269 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2009: Rescue workers using bare hands and buckets search frantically for students believed buried after Italy's deadliest earthquake in nearly three dec...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) - NASA's dress rehearsal for its mega moon rocket is off until at least this weekend because of a pair of technical problems that kept stalling a fuelling test.Launch managers tried twice - once Sunday and a...

WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Tuesday said that US$15 billion in grants would be required this year to help countries, including those in the Caribbean, manage the long-term risks of the novel c...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The long-standing problem of congestion in this south-central town has returned to the forefront following a two-year ease in traffic affiliated with schools, which have now fully resumed face-to-face learning.C...

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - The Biden Administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through August 31, extending a moratorium that has allowed millions of Americans to postpone payments during the novel coronavirus p...

KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Nigerian atheist activist Mubarak Bala, detained in April 2020, was sentenced Tuesday to 24 years after pleading guilty to 18 charges in a blasphemy case that had been widely condemned by UN experts and internation...

Dear Mr Brown,I heard that COVID cases are rising in Canada. I want to know whether there will be another lockdown and when in-person classes at college will be mandatory.-FNDear FN:There have been media reports that Canada could possib...

BEIJING, China (AP) - The COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest metropolis of Shanghai remains "extremely grim" amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday.The director of Shan...

BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian troops of gruesome atrocities in Ukraine and told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that those responsible should immediately be brought up on war crimes cha...

Remittance inflows exceeded US$3.3 billion for 2021, representing an increase over the US$2.9 billion for 2020.Minister of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Leslie Campbell, in revealing the figures at ...

DEPUTY Superintendent of Police Jacqueline Dillon Grant is urging residents of Albion, St Thomas, to speak out against acts of sexual offences which have been on the rise in the parish."Sexual offences are high in the parish and many of...

MIAMI, Florida (CMC) - The former Colombian soldier, extradited to the United States last January on charges linked to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in July last year, has pleaded not guilty when he appeared in co...

QUEEN'S Counsel Valerie Neita-Robertson - the jurist who represented former cop Lescene Edwards who was in 2013 sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Aldonna Harris-Vasquez before going on to lose his appeal befor...

PARLIAMENT resumes sitting this afternoon, with two heavyweights from either side of the House of Representatives - Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, and Opposition Spokesman on Transport Mikael Phillips - opening the floor for the 2022...

CHADDANE Harris, the St Catherine gym instructor who, between 2014 and 2019, terrorised women in Portmore, St Catherine, is to know his fate on June 24 this year.Harris, who became known as The Portmore Serial Rapist, pleaded guilty on ...

Champions Jamaica College (JC) and Edwin Allen will start the defence of their respective titles as the 110th staging of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships gets un...

A diplomatic chess game, which started two years ago to oust Baroness Patricia Scotland as Commonwealth secretary general, is now playing out in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) following Jamaica's decision to nominate Minister of Fore...

THE Associated Gospel Assemblies (AGA) has praised the church-appointed board of its flagship Merl Grove High School at Constant Spring Road, St Andrew, for its handling of the conflict leading to last week's formal firing of Principal ...

ROCKY POINT, Clarendon - It hasn't been easy but they made it. Carol and Rudolph Brown, 82 and 83 years old, respectively, have the distinction of being the oldest married couple in their community. A local group, Channels of Hope, rece...

MINISTER of National Security Dr Horace Chang says that the issue of how many guns a single licensed firearm holder can legally own, at any one time, should be addressed in the regulations for the current Bill.Dr Chang was responding la...

The United States Embassy Kingston celebrated Women's History Month with a three-day Women's Empowerment Conference held at Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, under the theme 'Providing Healing, Promoting Hope'.More than 50 women b...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - The police in Trelawny and St Ann are grappling with a truck stealing ring in the two neighbouring parishes since the start of the year.The robbers' modus operandi is to pose as customers and charter haulage contrac...

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Khadrea Folks, who specialises in employment law, believes there's need for changes to the legislation that gives protection to a worker against discrimination, based on health status, at the workplace.In an interview wi...

Chairman of the National Education Trust (NET) Ryan Reid (sitting, left) signs a landmark energy-saving deal with general manager of the Development Bank of Jamaica Denise Arana that will allow the implementation of a massive solar proj...

Today 95th tday of 2021. There are 270 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2009: The US and its allies seek punishment for North Korea's defiant launch of a rocket that apparently fizzles into the Pacific Ocean, holding an emergency ...

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) - A smuggler hid snakes and horned lizards around his groin as he tried to sneak them into the United States, Customs officials say.The man had 52 bags of reptiles secreted about his body when he was ask...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - The search resumed Monday for five of seven crewmen who were on board a St Vincent and the Grenadines registered cargo vessel that capsized in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago on Sa...

SEVERAL business owners at New Forum Fishing Village in Portmore, St Catherine, spent Sunday morning viewing scenes of devastation after a fire of unknown origin ravaged a section of the establishment overnight.The blaze delivered the t...

SEVERAL schools are now making do with the funds supplied to them through the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), despite the amount only being able to cover three days' worth of lunches for needy students, ins...

Today is the 94th day of 2022. There are 271 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1968: Civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.OTHER EVENTS1581: England's Queen Elizabeth I knights Francis D...

GUIDANCE counsellors at high schools say they are currently being overworked, and have been trying to find solutions for emotional disturbance, rising levels of anti social behaviour and violence coming from students.The issue was raise...

New York, USA - Jamaicans in the United States are gearing up to celebrate their country's Diamond Jubilee, and the consulate here is putting a year-long set of activities together for the occasion.The slew of events began in January w...

THE Hope Gospel Assembly in Liguanea, St Andrew, famously describes itself as "an oasis of love in a dry and thirsty land", but Rev Peter Garth, the outstanding evangelical preacher and the church's senior pastor, could use some of that...

ORANGE BAY, Hanover - President of the People's National Party (PNP) Mark Golding has called on the people of Hanover to put aside and reconcile past differences as the party works towards regaining seats lost in the 2020 General Electi...

The Jamaican producers of LifeSavers Wipes erupted in celebration on March 31 when the product won the top prize in global innovations of 2019-2021 at the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) in Miami, United States.Having copp...

COMMISSIONER of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Hugh Faulkner has given law enforcement bodies tasked with concluding disciplinary actions against rogue cops a failing grade.Faulkner, speaking at launch of rights ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Unimpressed after his first visit of the Westmoreland Parish Court's facilities, Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck has promised a substantial upgrade in the near future."Here in Westmoreland, it's the first...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Scores of farmers from seven communities in north-west Manchester have received training in agroforestry through a two-month programme spearheaded by the Central Jamaica Social Development Initiative (CJSDI).CJS...

Kiwanis Club of North St Andrew (KCNSA) officially handed over newly renovated bathroom facilities to Mount James Basic School in rural St Andrew. At the presentation ceremony, club President Dwayne Cargill noted that members had visite...

BERLIN, Germany (AP) - A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against COVID-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated them...

Lenorah Thomas's son, a policeman, was shot dead in what law enforcers said at the time was a robbery at a bar in the western sea coast town of Hopewell, Hanover, on April 4, 2015 - the circumstances of which she and others have stou...

Stop the delay - time for local electionThe position taken by Prime Minister Holness that no local government election will be held this year is wrong, and unconstitutional.But then, it tells you about the importance that is placed on l...

The Court of Appeal on Friday gave its reasons for overturning the 20 years at hard labour without parole sentence slapped on a 32-year-old pastor found guilty of rape.The 15-year-old girl was lured to his church compound in Chapleton, ...

Presiding Bishop of the Christian Holiness Church in Jamaica, Rev Dr Alvin Bailey, is urging the education ministry to focus on what he says is an alarming level of homosexuality, occult practices, extortion, crime and violence and gros...

Former Cabinet minister Robert Montague has described as misleading, an Integrity Commission report into the issuing of firearm licences that accused him of granting permits to six individuals with "criminal antecedents".The six applica...

If Donald "Tabby Diamond" Shaw had attended a birthday celebration in Arnett Gardens last Tuesday night he probably would have been alive today, his good friend and party host George Phang believes.Shaw, 67, former lead vocalist of the ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has likened the behaviour of some gunmen in Jamaica who create mayhem in the country to that of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Chuck made the comment during his address at a...

Chairman of the Tourism Linkages Network and executive chairman of Sandals Resorts International Adam Stewart (right) seems pleased with the aroma of some roasted coffee beans from Nakashka Company Ltd official Paula Fletcher, while tou...

At stall 868 in Coronation Market, west Kingston, you will find a higgler and a single mother of six - Victoria Riley - who has spent decades selling at the facility to ensure that each of her six children receive an education.Riley, wh...