WASHINGTON (AP): A country convulsed by violent protests picked up the pieces on Monday and braced for more trouble amid a coast-to-coast outpouring of rage over police killings of black people. President Donald Trump demanded that the nation’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: Had it not been for COVID-19, Jamaica-born cruise ship worker Dujan Thomas would have disembarked the Disney Fantasy with his Trinidadian wife, Sabrina, when the vessel docked in the twin-island state recently. However, with the T...
School administrators and secondary-school students have criticised the decision to change exam dates, with the acting president of the Association of Principals and Vice Principals, Lynton Weir, expressing “serious concern” about performance...
Investigators attached to the Kingston Eastern police are investigating the gruesome circumstances surrounding the discovery of a foetus that was found on Monday wrapped in newspaper and placed in a black plastic bag inside a garbage barrel. The...
“This COVID-19 pandemic has affected our lives in so many ways. We hope that after we have settled down from this pandemic, we will become a greater people than we were before as a nation.” – Aloun N’Dombe Assamba Chief Executive Officer, COK...
As another bout of fractiousness racks the 81-year-old People’s National Party (PNP), its beleaguered president Dr Peter Phillips has given an ominous warning to the ‘Gang of 15’. “There...
Jamaica has recorded two more COVID-19 cases bringing the total to 588. The two, both men, arrived on the Adventure of the Seas cruise ship on May 19. One is 38 years old of a Westmoreland address; and the other, 44 years old of a St Ann address....
WESTERN BUREAU: There will be no pretesting or quarantining of visitors to Jamaica when the island reopens its borders for international travel on Monday, June 15. Jamaica closed its borders on March 24 to flatten the curve of the coronavirus...
Some categories of employees dreading returning to the physical workplace can request to continue operating remotely even as the work-from-home orders have been lifted. For example, persons who are immunocompromised with underlying illnesses may...
More than half a decade after moves were made to equip personnel with body cameras to guard against unprofessional conduct and extrajudicial killings, national security and defence officials have confirmed that neither the police nor the army has...
With some listed companies being stopped in their tracks by the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) as they sought to hold virtual annual general meetings, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday announced an exemption for companies to hold these forums...
Virginia Bedward, who has lived in the low-lying southeast Clarendon community of Banks all her life, remembers like yesterday the 2007 horrors of Hurricane Dean all too well when it passed south of Jamaica, unleashing heavy winds and driving rain...
Residents in a number of low-lying southeast Clarendon communities have expressed anxiety at what forecasters have projected to be a highly active hurricane season, with up to 19 named storms expected. Ten could become hurricanes. Their situation...
The Mitchell Town Primary School in Clarendon has undergone refurbishment at a cost of $11.3 million through the philanthropy of New Fortress Energy (NFE). The energy company, which was founded by American businessman Wes Edens, overhauled the more...
An attorney based in the United Kingdom (UK) has suggested that an urgent application be made to the Jamaican Supreme Court challenging the vexed and long-standing practice by the local police force of leaving cops on suspension or interdiction for...
Councillors who have walked the rugged terrain of St Ann North East canvassing for the Jamaica Labour Party have praised late Member of Parliament Shahine Robinson for her commitment to cause and her engagement skills on the hustings. Also the...
We Jamaicans are a resilient people. COVID-19, while a formidable enemy, is no match for our resolve if we band together as a society and appreciate that we are truly stronger together than we are individually. – John Azar Founder and Managing...
TWO WORKERS in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector have painted very different pictures based on their experience working from home for the past two months. Shelly-Ann Roberts*, who is eight months pregnant and works at a St Andrew...
The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) has assisted roughly 6,000 Jamaicans to collect state benefits as they grapple with the economic fallout from the deadly coronavirus pandemic locally. EOJ boss Glasspole Brown told The Sunday Gleaner that the...
AS MANY companies look to have more staff return to the office tomorrow as the work-from-home order issued as part of the COVID-19 containment measures expires, eyes will be focused on the outsourcing sector, where an outbreak at Alorica’s Portmore...
GOVERNOR GENERAL Sir Patrick Allen could be asked to exercise his authority under Section 80 (5) of the Jamaican Constitution and appoint a new Opposition leader if Manchester Central Member of Parliament Peter Bunting and his supporters head to...
AN EXTRADITION request by United States (US) authorities for a mentally ill Jamaican man wanted for murder in the state of New York was lodged at the Ministry of Justice for over a decade with no action, officials have confirmed. What’s worse,...
THE ANDREW Holness led-Cabinet is expected to determine tomorrow whether it will bow to pressure from tourism and other industry interests to abandon the long-term phased and full reopening of the economy despite protests from health officials....
WESTERN BUREAU: There are jitters among workers in the tourism sector that a premature reopening of the industry which has been in hibernation since the coronavirus pandemic reached local shores could be catastrophic, but they admit that they don’t...
JAMAICANS IN the United States have been told to start packing their bags as commercial flights are set to resume to their homeland in a matter of days as the Government moves to relax border restrictions implemented to stem the spread of the...
