A burglar broke into the home of a married couple before treating himself to a shower. Steve Baker explained how his wife woke him up last week when she heard the sound of running water at their home in California. Baker armed himself with a gun...
The partner of a woman who claims to have given birth to a record-breaking 10 babies does not believe they exist. Gosiame Sithole says she gave birth to decuplets in South Africa last week but her partner Tebogo Tsotetsi has explained that he has...
GENEVA (ILO News) – The number of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide – an increase of 8.4 million children in the last four years – with millions more at risk due to the impacts of COVID-19, according to a...
NEW YORK – Historic, game-changing, revolutionary: such has been the widespread reaction to the recent agreement by G7 finance ministers on a global minimum effective tax rate of “at least” 15% for large multinational firms. The...
LONDON – When will the world have vaccinated 80% of all adults, the level presumed by scientists to produce herd immunity against COVID-19? Most people’s answer is 2023 or 2024, which suggests deep pessimism about the progress of...
GENEVA (ILO News) – Ten years after the adoption of an historic International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention that confirmed their labour rights, domestic workers are still fighting for recognition as workers and essential service...
CAMBRIDGE – ExxonMobil recently announced a five-year plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and is pumping out ads proclaiming its commitment to a green future. Tobacco giant Philip Morris is touting its plans to help smokers quit. Facebook...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist’s pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, maybe worth so many more. Take a look at this week past’s lineup of cartoons as...
The twists and turns in the saga of the George Wright story seems to have an end nobody can predict. After resigning from the Jamaica Labour Party, the party upon which he won the Westmoreland Central seat, and seemingly immune from being removed...
When Beenie Man and Bounty Killer destroyed a VS stage to re-ignite the fire that is dancehall in the global space, many thought ‘we better run with this momentum because it doesn’t get any better’. Well, maybe it can. Maybe...
Stories of cops falling victim to the long tentacles of corruption and even becoming the purveyors of that corruption aren’t new. But a cop becoming the symbol of violence by being found to be the head of a criminal organisation, a gang, is...
When Prime Minister Andrew Holness called on Dancehall artistes to do better, pointing the finger at them as one of the problems exacerbating Jamaica’s crime problem, he drew the ire of many of the industry’s leaders. Now the parliament...
Last week George Wright, despite saying he still believes in the philosophies of the Jamaica Labour Party, resigned from the organisation. That statement in his resignation letter begs the question of while he should now be considered a member of...
Jamaicans the world over had one more reason to be proud on the weekend with the announcement that another from the fold, is now holding a leadership position inside the United States Government. Following Vice President Kamala Harris in that mode...
It seems Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee is not yet done with Auditor General Pamela Munroe Ellis. Just Tuesday last, member of parliament for St James Central, Heroy Clarke, pressed her, suggesting she ignored nepotism. Munroe...
The Parade Ground at Up Park Camp was the scene of pageantry and colour on June 10, 1967, as the annual Queen’s Birthday parade took place. Their Excellencies, the Governor-General Sir Clifford Campbell and Lady Campbell, and Prime...
It is hard to believe that in 1973, Junior Tucker was already a star. But the child star, at five years old, was already making hits. In later years, Tucker, who was known as the Jamaican Michael Jackson, would become known for hits like 1990s...
Born to a Chinese father and Jamaican mother, living in the then Kingston-Chinese community of Vineyard Town, Sheila Chong would finish runner up at the Miss World pageant in 1959. The marriage of her parents, like the marriage of the cultures,...
There is a certain reverence for the Queen in Jamaica, though diminished over time. But in 1953, nine years before independence, that reverence was there in all its glory. Crowds like never before seen turned up to witness Jamaica’s salute to...
There have been hundreds of stories over the years about Jamaicans who made their way to England on the “Empire Windrush”. The generation has taken on the moniker ‘Windrush’, named after the ship that took them to a brand...
A mother was arrested after pretending to be her teenage daughter and attending her school for a day. Casey Garcia posed as her 13-year-old daughter Julie by dying her hair and dressing up like a teenager in a bid to prove that the security at the...
A company is selling jeans that make the wearer look as if they have wet themselves. US firm Wet Pants Denim has launched a range of denim that seems as if somebody has had an unfortunate accident with a watery stain at the front. The company said...
A mother has claimed to have given birth to a record-breaking 10 babies. Gosiame Sithole explained how she was left in shock after delivering decuples in Pretoria, South Africa, last week. It would be the world's largest-ever live birth if it...
Scientists have developed an 'electric nose' that is capable of sniffing out coronavirus. The technology sees participants breathing into a 3D-printed plastic device for 80 seconds in which volatile organic compounds are analysed for COVID-...
A bride died of a heart attack at her wedding in India - so the groom married his sister instead. The woman - who was named only as Surbhi - collapsed after suffering a heart attack while exchanging vows with husband-to-be Mangesh Kumar at the...
