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WHILE MINISTER of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton awaits the outcome of a criminal investigation into the controversial death of 23-year-old Jodian Fearon, he has been urged not to defer an internal probe into an issue that has triggered...

THE SKY over Emancipation Park was decorated with white yesterday as family and friends of Jodian Fearon gathered to release balloons in celebration of what would have been her 24th birthday. Fearon died at the University Hospital of the West...

Quarantine orders for Alorica employees remain in effect The Ministry of Health...

Roger Davis, the drug boss who was convicted in the United States (US) along with his brother, dancehall artiste Flippa Mafia, for leading an international narcotics syndicate, was among the 46 Jamaicans who were deported last week, law enforcement...

Jamaicans stranded overseas amid the COVID-19 pandemic can now qualify to return home by applying through an online portal under the Government’s programme of controlled re-entry. Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith said that those who...

Ravaged by fallout from the coronavirus disease, the Holness administration has established a high-powered task force to kick-start Jamaica’s battered economy and chart the road to recovery in the medium term. Chaired by Finance and the Public...

Jamaica’s ambassador to Cuba has said that consistent efforts are being made through the embassy to ensure the well-being of the medical students and other Jamaicans in Cuba. Yesterday The Gleaner reported that a number of Jamaican students in Cuba...

The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) will continue to accept critically ill patients from the Caribbean, but COVID-19 status will now become a prerequisite to action in the wake of exposure of senior medical and nursing personnel to...

A major squabble has erupted between two Kingston hospitals over whether the death of a 23-year-old delivering mother was caused by a panicked breakdown in COVID-19 patient protocols by a medical team at the Andrews Memorial Hospital. While the...

TWO MEN are nursing several gunshot wounds under police guard at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) after they were disarmed and shot during a bizarre tussle with a man they abducted Saturday afternoon. Information reaching our newsroom is that the...

It was a simple engineering twist on a breathing apparatus to enhance the delivery and precision of medication dosage. In the end, the collaboration between two teams from drink manufacturer Wisynco and medical staff at the Kingston Public Hospital...

Amid a massive increase in customers attempting to purchase rubbing alcohol since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Jamaica, P.A. Benjamin Manufacturing Company has closed its retail office temporarily to focus on supplying its major...