Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, Hidden Figures) and Academy Award® nominee Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises, The Lord of the Rings trilogy star in Participant Media and DreamWorks Pictures’ Green Book. In his foray...
Christian Sasso was crowned overall champion while Wendy McMaster took the women’s crown at the Driftwood Sporting Challenge, which ended at the Murphy Hill Estate in Ocho Rios on Sunday. Sasso topped the shooting competition with an...
Alcar Construction and Haulage Limited has set up a US$300,000 asphalt plant, hoping to supply paving material for the planned Southern Coastal Highway. Alcar is positioning for subcontracting work on the road project that is headed by China...
Christopher Townsend, the attorney for entertainer Elephant Man has asserted that his client is willing to go the police for questioning in connection with a viral gun video. The police this afternoon listed as persons of interest, Elephant...
Four students from the John Rollins Success Primary school in St James are among seven people injured in a late afternoon crash along the Rose Hall main road. The details of the crash were not immediately available. However, it is understood that...
R&B star James Ingram has died at the age of 66. Media reports suggest he had brain cancer. Longtime friend Debbie Allen confirmed Ingram's death in a post on Twitter.
A study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has found that Jamaica will need approximately 49,000 teachers, 12,000 doctors and 37,000 nurses by the year 2040. The IDB says this was one of the findings of its “Education and Health:...
State Minister Everald Warmington has objected to an announcement by the Office of the Prime Minister that the embattled oil refinery, Petrojam, drafted the terms of reference for a forensic audit at the entity.
Eight flights destined for Montego Bay, St James this morning had to be diverted to the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston because of extreme weather condition now affecting the tourism capital. Montego Bay has been experiencing heavy...
Jamaica has fallen two places in the latest rankings of Transparency International’s 2018 Corruption Perception Index (CPI). The country is now ranked 70 out of 180 countries and has a CPI score of 44. Jamaica also scored a CPI of 44 in 2017...
The National Commission on Science and Technology (NCST) and the Scientific Research Council (SRC) are galvanising their resources to help local innovators develop their ideas for commercialisation. The objective is to increase the role of science...
Despite the critical role quantity surveyors play in ensuring the prudent financial management of construction, they still have no legal professional industry recognition, says Earl Samuels, chief development financing officer of The Jamaica...
Below is a statement from JAMPRO regarding the bamboo industry. Interest in bamboo products continue to rise as the demand for even more value-added products made from the plant increases globally. This finding is evidenced in reports by the...
The Government says work on the Southern Coast Highway Improvement Project will begin by year-end. The Office of the Prime Minister, in a statement, said the final design work for the Harbour View to Yallahs leg of the project will be...
A senior United Nations (UN) judge has stepped down from one of The Hague's international courts, while criticising “shocking” political interference by the Trump administration and Turkey. Christoph Fl...
Apple has made the group chat function in FaceTime unavailable after users said there was a bug that could allow callers to activate another user’s microphone remotely. The bug was demonstrated through videos online and ...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Teachers at a secondary school in Haiti have vowed to remain off the job until the authorities make good on the promise to pay outstanding arrears and appoint new teachers dating back to several years. The...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Belize has announced that it had exported five containers of crude soybean oil to Jamaica, making this the first ever shipment of soybean oil to the region. The government said that the shipment was made last...
The National Works Agency (NWA) has extended the closure of the Trenton Road/Paisley Avenue intersection in May Pen, Clarendon to facilitate continuing pipe-laying works under the Paisley to Guinep Tree road improvement project. The activities,...