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Barely a month after announcing relaxed COVID-19 measures the Jamaican Government was yesterday forced to back-pedal, pushed by rising infections numbering an average 135 new cases per day with a staggering 1,318 new cases already recorded for the month of July...

Mixed reactions to new COVID measures 10:50 pm
LUCEA, Hanover — Hanover's entertainment, business and education sectors gave mixed responses to Prime Minister Andrew Holness's announcement of tighter COVID-19 measures which take effect today.

This Day in History — July 27 10:20 pm
Today is the 208th day of 2021. There are 157 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS

Shock, disbelief at drowning of Seprod employee

KAREEM Coley's death by drowning in the Rio Grande on Sunday has plunged his community — Padmore district in Red Hills, St Andrew — as well as his co-workers at Seprod Group into shock.

National Baking Company says thanks to nurses

IN recognition of the just-ended Nurses Week 2021, National Baking Company Limited presented the nursing team at University Hospital of The West Indies (UHWI) and Bustamante Hospital for Children with gift baskets and products to signal its appreciation for the nurses who are part of the...

COVID back-pedal

In life, in death

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Julaine Robe Powell and Omeshia Vernon Clunis began yesterday morning as usual — seeing their husbands off to work. However, about 6:00 am, both women became widows

Old Melrose Hill road undergoes rehabilitation

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The old Melrose Hill road, which had been in a state of disrepair for years, is now being rehabilitated to be used as a detour while work progresses on the May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000.

This Day in History — July 27

Today is the 208th day of 2021. There are 157 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS

Climate financing high on the agenda for Jamaica, other SIDS, leading up to COP26

�FINANCING for adaptation not only needs to be scaled up; it must be more accessible.

TPDCo hosts webinar to commemorate 25th anniversary

THE Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) will be hosting a 'Tourism Webinar' tomorrow, beginning at 10:00 am, to commemorate its 25th anniversary.

NWC assures Longville residents sewage dumped in drains cleared

LONGVILLE PARK, Clarendon — The National Water Commission (NWC) has moved to assure residents of this community that it has flushed and sterilised the lines after being forced to dump sewage into a drain in Phase 3 in mid-July. A 33-second video of the waste being dumped into the...

Banks to get a boost

BANKS, Clarendon — Major infrastructural development such as an entertainment zone and significant improvement in the drainage system are on the cards for the community of Banks when the fifth pilot project under the ministry of local government's rural development initiative...

Dominica launches new electronic passport

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) — Dominica yesterday launched its electronic passport (e-passport) that it says will significantly reduce identify theft and will be an integral component of its border management systems.

Pope: Hunger is the 'crime' violating basic rights

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis yesterday decried as criminal the existence of hunger in a world which can produce enough food for all, building on a warning from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that climate change and conflict are the consequences and drivers of poverty and income...

Sparked by pandemic fallout, homeschooling surges across US

MISSOURI, United States (AP) — Although the pandemic disrupted family life across the US since taking hold in spring 2020, some parents are grateful for one consequence: They're now opting to homeschool their children, even as schools plan to resume in-person...

With virus surge, US to keep travel restrictions for now

WASHINGTON, DC United States (AP) — The United States will keep existing COVID-19 travel restrictions on international travel in place for now due to concerns about the surging infection rate because of the Delta variant, according to a White House...

Jamaica man, 74, fears he'll die from cancer if deported from Britain

A 74-year-old man, Lewin Williams, is fighting to avoid deportation from Britain on grounds that he is battling cancer and will die if he is forced to go back to Jamaica, where he won't be able to afford life-saving treatment.