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Published:Wednesday | April 29, 2020 | 12:10 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

DETERMINED TO resuscitate an ailing economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has reaffirmed his intention to roll out a long-touted works scheme to boost business confidence and sop up sagging labour. Addressing the House...

Published:Wednesday | April 29, 2020 | 12:10 AM

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...

Published:Wednesday | April 29, 2020 | 12:09 AM

WITH THE sudden resignation of Dr Winston De La Haye, the People’s National Party (PNP) caretaker for St Catherine East Central, the party says it is moving to swiftly find a replacement in the constituency. But as news of his resignation surfaced...

Published:Wednesday | April 29, 2020 | 12:00 AMVanessa James/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2020 | 12:00 AM

It’s been raw agony for immigration officer Kenton Senior, the boyfriend of the first-time mom who died under controversial circumstances on the weekend hours after delivering their daughter. “It kills me,” Senior told The Gleaner...

Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2020 | 12:20 AM

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

Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2020 | 12:00 AM

A defence attorney whose client is now battling for life after being stabbed while in custody at the Kingston Central police lock-up is seeking answers to inefficiencies in the judicial system. Attorney-at-law Chad Lawrence said that he has been...

Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2020 | 12:15 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

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...

Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2020 | 12:13 AMBryan Miller/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Buoyed by the fact that Hanover remains the only parish without a case of COVID-19, the newly formed Hanover Strong kicked off a major sanitisation project on Sunday at the Lucea Transport Centre, targeting both private and public-...

Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2020 | 12:08 AM

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...

Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2020 | 12:08 AM

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has revealed that a backlog of 600 samples for COVID-19 testing is expected to be cleared within a day. Tufton, who addressed the issue amid complaints over waits of up to two weeks for results, said the...

Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2020 | 12:07 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

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...

Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2020 | 12:06 AMPaul Clarke/Gleaner Writer

Two minutes after Ian Falconer dumped water from two drums on to a raging fire on Sunday, he peered through the smokey haze to see a little hand gripping an old bed. That hand was his three-year-old son’s. Falconer, an 18-year veteran assigned to...

Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2020 | 12:00 AMTamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Wednesday | April 29, 2020 | 12:11 AM

I stand in solidarity with the Government and people of Jamaica as we all work together to overcome the COVID-19 threat. Now more than ever, we need to pool our collective efforts and protect ourselves, families, and communities by following all...

Published:Monday | April 27, 2020 | 12:25 AMErica Virtue/Senior Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Monday | April 27, 2020 | 12:00 AM

Food options for the Jamaican ship workers stuck on the Marella Discovery 2 in England are dwindling, and the pain of the uncertainty of their return home is worsening. “I’m starving!” one of the ship workers among the 43 Jamaicans on board told...

Published:Monday | April 27, 2020 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Monday | April 27, 2020 | 12:22 AMAlbert Ferguson/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Michael Paquin of Montreal, Canada, is among several tourists from the United States who have been left stranded in Jamaica after their flights were cancelled following the closure of its borders to incoming passengers because of...

Published:Monday | April 27, 2020 | 12:16 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

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...

Published:Monday | April 27, 2020 | 12:14 AMDanae Hyman/Staff Reporter

As the Ministry of Health and Wellness moves to ramp up its turnaround of COVID-19 test results, Gleaner investigations of three cases indicate that bureaucratic backlogs and a communication blackout may be compromising the country’s grasp of the...

Published:Monday | April 27, 2020 | 12:00 AMChristopher Serju/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Monday | April 27, 2020 | 12:12 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer

The Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) has been accused of flaunting its authority by setting up a COVID-19 quarantine facility in a complex where some 70 families reside, but a senior regional official has pushed back at the criticism. The...

Published:Monday | April 27, 2020 | 12:11 AMDanae Hyman/Staff Reporter

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...

Published:Monday | April 27, 2020 | 12:08 AM

"This coronavirus crisis is saying to me that it is time for us to come together. It is a time for us to be selfless. It’s a time for us to be a kind and gentler society. It’s a time for us to recognise that the survival of each person is greatly...

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