Rose Miller (right), grants manager, JN Foundation, and Donna Parchment Brown (centre), political ombudsman and vice chair of National Chorale of Jamaica, in conversation with treble Oscar Kremer at the Jamaican-Austrian Felsted Celebra...

Sandra Williams (second left), the longest-serving employee of the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ), with 40 years of service, collects her prize from Electoral Commission of Jamaica Chairman Earl Jarrett at Wednesday's EOJ long servic...

St Jago High School's Gregory Prince is congratulated by his mother, Tracey-Ann Cooper-Prince, after he won the Class One Boys' 400m final in 45.99 seconds at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Championship inside the National Stadi...

MINISTER without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister Robert Morgan has indicated that the search for a new chief executive officer of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) is to get under shortly.This contradicts whispers in m...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Dominick Riley, United States Postal Service Attaché at that country's embassy in Kingston, has warned that a number of Jamaican lottery scammers will be extradited to the United States, starting this month.Rile...

Four weeks after the Government rejected calls for a reduction in fuel tax, Jamaica Public Service (JPS) President and Chief Executive Officer Michel Gantois lobbed the issue back to the State, arguing that a suspension of the tariff w...

PETROJAM says it has cleaned up its act, in accordance with the findings of the auditor general's 2018 report on its operations, which cited the State oil refinery for significant operational, contracts management, procurement and gover...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Tourism players in Negril have welcomed Minister Edmund Bartlett's parliamentary announcement of a destination management plan for the resort area but have put the Government on notice that they expect the plan to...

 WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - Congress voted overwhelmingly Thursday to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and ban the importation of its oil, ratcheting up the US response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine amid reports of at...

 UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The UN General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the world organisation's leading human rights body over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, which the United Sta...

Today is the 98th day of 2022. There are 267 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1946: The League of Nations assembles in Geneva for the last time.OTHER EVENTS1500: French army, aided by Swiss mercenaries, conquers Milan in Italy.190...

SOME residents of Rae Town in Kingston said they went through a nerve-wracking experience on Thursday morning as they watched the police pull the body of a man, with his feet bound, from the Kingston Harbour.As they observed the police ...

General secretary of the Union of Clerical Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE) John Levy is adamant that the correct decision was made to dismiss the case against a Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) supervisor accused of...

A wave of empathy over cruelty to animals, especially the much-loved dolphin, is sweeping across the world and threatening to wipe out marine parks and other companies that use animals for entertainment but are not always as concerned a...

Jamaicans can now protect their goods and services with trademarks in 126 foreign markets, through the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO). These markets are members of the Madrid System for the International Registration of Ma...

THE Government will be spending more than US$200 million to develop the infrastructure in St Thomas to position the parish as a new prime tourism destination.Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett made the disclosure as he opened the 2022/...

A 35-year-old man is calling attention to the dangers of walking along Half-Way-Tree Road at certain hours of the day, after he was pounced on by a gang, robbed, and buggered in the week hours of Monday morning.The distraught caller to ...

ROSE HALL, St James -Prime Minster Andrew Holness says the time has come for the fulfilment of the Paris Climate Accord's promise to make financial support available to developing countries that take action on climate change."The latest...

WASHINGTON, US (AP) - The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorse...

WOODPARK is the first of several communities in St Mary Western to receive free public Internet from satellite, under the Universal Service Fund (USF) public Wi-Fi hot spot programme.The service, which became operational on March 30, is...

NEW YORK, US (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday rejected Girl Scouts' claims that the Boy Scouts created marketplace confusion and damaged their recruitment efforts by using words like "scouts" and "scouting" in recruitment drives.Manha...

LONDON, UK (AP) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday announced plans to build more nuclear power plants, boost renewable energy production, and further tap domestic oil and gas reserves to help the UK reduce its dependence on Russ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said that up to 65 per cent of people in Africa have been infected with the coronavirus and estimates the number of actual cases may have been nearly 100 times more c...

Role play, choreographed dances, an elaborate life-sized bar setting, and top-notch entertainment were among the standout features from Red Stripe's recently held employee conference.The company closed its brewery for two days to allow ...

CONTROVERSIAL pastor Rev Sean Major Campbell has suggested that Jamaicans place more focus on eradicating social ills, rather than criticising schoolchildren for wearing guard rings as a talisman.A Sunday Observer story, entitled "Bisho...

THE State-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) could be dragged before the courts by female employees who are livid after a case against a supervisor they claim is a "serial sexual harasser" was dismissed on Tuesday because of a r...

JAMAICA'S Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, QC, weighing in on a recent media report that the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is engaged in selling voters' data, insinuating that the entity was in breach of the Da...

The Office of the Public Defender has concluded that Nzinga King's locks were unlawfully cut by a policewoman while she was in custody at the Four Paths police station last year.According to the Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry, i...

FOLLOWING the intervention of a well-respected manager, patient care assistants (PCA) at the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine ceased a placard-bearing protest at the institution on Wednesday morning, but threatened stronger industr...

The Government of the Guyana on Friday signed the petroleum production licence for the Yellowtail offshore development in the Stabroek Block, paving the way for the ExxonMobil's subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited...

Today is the 97th day of 2021. There are 268 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1966: US hydrogen bomb lost from bomber is recovered in Mediterranean Sea off coast of Spain. OTHER EVENTS1509: France declares war on Venice.1897: Tur...

Exactly 262 years ago today, Chief Takyi began his short-lived rebellion in St Mary that would be put down by the British, with the support of the Maroons, but not before inspiring the Haitian Revoltion and catapulting him into the his...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - The Falmouth Public General Hospital was the recent recipient of a new centrifuge machine, which was donated by the Violet Moss Foundation.The Violet Moss Foundation was formed by Lilieth Palmer in honour of her g...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Plagued with constant break-ins due to a lack of adequate security measures at the Irwin Primary School, Principal Kingsley Bailey can now heave a sigh of relief after the school received eight security camera sy...

Government officials yesterday scoffed at a question that the nomination of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith to become the next secretary general of the Commonwealth could be withdrawn and urged Jamaica...

HEAD of the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Gary McKenzie is pleased that the hunt for robot taxi operators is reaping good results since the operation started early last year.The offb...

Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte has labelled calls for Jamaica to ditch The Queen by the time the country celebrates its 6oth year of Independence in August as impractical.Addressing a post-Cabinet me...

SIXTY local entrepreneurs within the micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) sector are set to benefit from the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) Accelerator Programme.The $60-million initiative is being funded jo...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - The Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has launched a new Data Intelligence Gateway online platform that it says will allow it to serve its regional stakeholders more efficiently."No inst...

POLICE Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson believes the anti-informer culture in Jamaica is changing, based on the overwhelming response from the public to calls from the constabulary to give up gunmen. Speaking at a press confer...

ANDRIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine gathered its dead and collected evidence of Russian atrocities on the ruined outskirts of Kyiv, as the two sides geared up Wednesday for what could become a climactic battle by Moscow's forces to seize ...

EGETON Newman, president of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), has called for a high-level investigation into an incident that led to the shooting and injury of a taxi operator by a policeman on Tuesday in...

The stage is set for today's titanic showdown in the girls' Class One 100m race on the second day of the Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships at National Stadium.Fireworks are ...

 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...

TOURISM Minister Edmund Bartlett says that his ministry plans to increase engagements with a wide range of stakeholders, in both the public and private sectors, to unlock new opportunities to grow the industry.He said that by increasing...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has staunchly defended the Government's decision to put up Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith for the post of Commonwealth secretary general in the face of scepticism and dissonance on th...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has issued site warning notices to Western Parks and Markets (WPM) following investigations into the fire at the Retirement dump which is still emitting harmf...

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...

The Integrity Commission has cleared a senior officer at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) of allegations of impropriety in the award of a contract to an employee, but has rapped the agency for failin...

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...