DESPITE NOT being able to say how scores of people contracted the COVID-19 disease, Jamaica’s chief medical officer (CMO) has told a committee of Parliament that the country’s situation has not yet met the medical threshold of community spread. “...
NEWLY MINTED charity, the Karen Dale Foundation, in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Ocho Rios, recently donated equipment valued at more than $300,000 to the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital. The items included 130 digital thermometers, 200...
WESTERN BUREAU: CLERGYMEN IN western Jamaica are somewhat cautious about how church services are to be conducted during the upcoming two-week trial period announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Monday evening as part of the effort to ease...
The Major Investigations Division is leading a major probe after five bodies were exhumed from two shallow graves in a section of the Washington Gardens community called 'Danger Island'. The police say the graves were made on the banks of...
The Health Ministry says there have been two new coronavirus cases in Jamaica increasing the total to 507. The new patients are a 57-year-old woman and a six-year-old boy, both from the corporate area. The Health Ministry also reported...
The hierarchy of the People’s National Party (PNP) has intervened in a growing rift in St Catherine Eastern between member of parliament Denise Daley and Spanish Town mayor Norman Scott. Scott, who is also the councillor for the...
WHILE INDICATING that the Government is not contemplating laying off public-sector workers owing to the impact of COVID-19, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has warned that if the country’s economy does not change gears and accelerate towards near...
BAR OPERATORS have been given a reprieve as the Holness administration prepares to loosen the strictures which have for two months kept the doors of saloons shuttered. Operators of Jamaica’s 10,000 registered bars will be allowed to accept up to...
JAMAICAN DR Anita Brown-Johnson said yesterday that she was not shocked that her son Nicholas Johnson’s record of academic excellence paved the way for his history-making exploits as the first black valedictorian of Princeton University. Princeton...
THE JAMAICAN Government has parted company with its Caribbean counterparts on a July date to sit the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination tests. Minister with responsibility for education,...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ALLEGED mastermind behind a spate of robberies across western Jamaica was killed after he and his cronies reportedly engaged the security forces in a blazing gun battle after yet another multimillion-dollar heist in Montego Bay...
Sixty-three-year-old Claudette Biggs of Board Villa in Kingston was all smiles yesterday and it wasn’t because of how she spent Mother’s Day on Sunday with family and a scrumptious meal prepared by her granddaughter. Her joy, she told The Gleaner,...
WESTERN BUREAU: David Martin is staging online workshops to help persons learn a new skill in animation and the digital arts as they spend more time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Martin, a Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE)...
The Government has announced new curfew hours and new rules for bars and churches as Jamaica seeks to adjust to life amid the coronavirus. At a press conference at Jamaica House on Monday, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said, as of May 13, the...
Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has reported that another two men and one woman who arrived in Jamaica on the flight from the United Kingdom last week have tested positive for the coronavirus. This has pushed Jamaica's COVID-19 tally to...
Preliminary reports of child abuse to the National Children’s Registry in March fell by approximately 28 per cent compared to the previous month, signalling to welfare authorities that hundreds of children might be at greater risk of exploitation...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s emergency-response systems could buckle under the strain of an approaching hurricane season in the midst of coronavirus community spread, Dr Morais Guy, the opposition spokesman on health, has warned. Sixteen named storms...
It should have been another typical Mother’s Day celebration on Sunday for 62-year-old Charmaine Henry and her family. But in a bizarre series of events, Sunday was spent by the family mourning Henry’s untimely death and giving statements to the...
Still victims of stigmatisation some 40 years after HIV was first discovered in humans in the United States, 25 western Jamaica girls and women living with the disease were recipients of Mother’s Day care packages this past weekend. The recipients...
After weeks of being isolated from their church family, scores of moms were yesterday gifted care packages at the Faith Cathedral Deliverance Centre in Kingston, where a Mother’s Day drive-thru service was hosted for members. More than 100 mothers...
When Rolando Nooks’ father passed away three years ago, his sister was unable to travel for the funeral and made one request of him. Using his mobile phone, the Jamaican streamed the service live for his sibling to view. “I was leaning into this...
Sixty-three-year-old Clayton Wright was asleep inside his one-bedroom home on West Avenue in central Kingston on Saturday, shortly after midnight, when he was jolted from his slumber as fire singed the top of his head. Wright, who walks with the...
Jamaica’s Governor General Sir Patrick Allen has called for his compatriots to throw support behind the Government’s efforts to combat the global pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 worldwide and brought economies to their knees. Sir Patrick...
There are hundreds of healthcare workers engaged in contact tracing, the method by which trained health personnel interview people who may have been in contact with persons having contagious illnesses such as COVID-19. It is a necessary part of...
