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Published:Sunday | April 19, 2020 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

The Jamaican workers stranded overseas on-board the Marella Discovery 2 cruise ship have demanded answers from the Government after learning that the ban on incoming passengers was relaxed for a gravely ill patient from the Turks and Caicos Islands...

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2020 | 12:00 AM

The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) is being overly cautious about the circumstances that sent a senior doctor, and likely other healthcare workers on the front line of the COVID-19 fight, into quarantine, after a critically ill...

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2020 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

Angela Whitcomb* was sent home on Thursday, April 9 from her job at the Portmore, St Catherine, branch of Alorica, the business process outsourcing (BPO) firm at the centre of the sudden increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Jamaica. The...

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2020 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

Paula Llewellyn is acutely aware of how reluctant Jamaicans are when it comes to sharing information with the authorities. As the country’s chief prosecutor for the past decade, Llewellyn has had to navigate the ‘informa fi dead’ culture, which...

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2020 | 12:00 AM

Alorica call centre says it will continue to pay all staff 100 per cent of their base salary until April 30 even if they are unable to work from home. However, there is uncertainty what will happen after that. In a letter to staff, Alorica...

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2020 | 12:00 AM

A senior Government official has sought to explain that a Turks and Caicos Islands patient was allowed to enter Jamaica this week because he had an urgent medical emergency.

 

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2020 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

The country’s ballooning number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has reached 163, with the ministry recording an additional 20 new cases over the last 24 hours. Senior government ministers and technocrats had been locked in a high-level meeting...

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2020 | 12:19 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

As Ministry of Health...

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2020 | 12:19 AMRuddy Mathison/Gleaner Writer

A massive sanitisation drive was carried out by the Portmore Municipal Corporation in the Sunshine City yesterday in preparation for the thousands of residents who are expected to come out to shop today – the second designated day for getting...

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2020 | 12:18 AM

The Ministry of Health...

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2020 | 12:18 AMPaul Clarke/Gleaner Writer

The lockdown of St Catherine declared by Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday is already taking its toll on some residents of the parish, particularly the dispossessed. Men, women and children in Ellerslie Pen, Spanish Town, all have the same...

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2020 | 12:00 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

It took the group of St Ann men calling themselves ‘Mi and Mi Bredda Dem Good’ less than two weeks to change their recipe from cooks competing in a social media quarantine cook-off to a team helping needy residents in the parish. But such is the...

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2020 | 12:17 AM

Doctor of Pharmacy students at The University of the West Indies have been producing hand sanitisers on the campus for local distribution in an effort to beat the COVID-19 pandemic now affecting the island. The students are producing the...

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2020 | 12:17 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Independent Schools Association (JISA) is currently awaiting the Ministry of Education’s decision on whether the island’s independently run schools will be getting state relief in light of the impact of the coronavirus...

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2020 | 12:16 AM

An elderly common-law couple, Leslie Brown and Inez Colbourne of Ellerslie Pen, commonly known as Capture Land, are in urgent need of assistance. The two, who are blind, have been together for more than 30 years with Brown battling diabetes. Their...

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2020 | 12:16 AM

Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States Audrey Marks has revealed that a spike in the number of coronavirus cases in the island this week has thrown off plans to announce a gradual return to the island on a phased basis for nationals stranded...

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2020 | 12:15 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition spokesman on Science and Technology, Julian Robinson, has warned that great care must be taken when sharing sensitive information on the many videoconferencing options on social media. There has been a sharp increase in...

Published:Friday | April 17, 2020 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica’s health authority has indicated that it will be ramping up the surveillance of informal funeral homes to ensure that they adhere to the guidelines for the handling of bodies of deceased COVID patients.

Published:Friday | April 17, 2020 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica today recorded another 20 confirmed cases of the coronavirus pushing the tally to 163. In an update Friday, the Health Ministry said two of the new positive tests are Alorica call centre employees, one is under...

Published:Friday | April 17, 2020 | 12:24 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

The New Kingston head offices of the Ministry of Health and Wellness have been ordered closed after an employee charged with response to the COVID-19 pandemic has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The identity of the worker, who has been...

Published:Friday | April 17, 2020 | 12:24 AMSteven Jackson/Senior Business Reporter

Jamaica intends to enter into a lending arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as it admits that the Government will make significant adjustments to the 2021 Budget arising from the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. A...

Published:Friday | April 17, 2020 | 12:23 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Though not wearing clothes made from camel’s hair, Jessie Justin bellowed yesterday like John the Baptist – a lone voice in the wilderness denouncing the Government’s selection of Saturday as the second of two days designated for shopping for...

Published:Friday | April 17, 2020 | 12:23 AM

The Government has agreed to make changes to an order prohibiting media workers from moving about during the period of lockdown in St Catherine to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. The move came after the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ)...

Published:Friday | April 17, 2020 | 12:23 AM

Romario Scott/Gleaner Writer Lingering concerns surrounding the operations of the Alorica call centre in Portmore, St Catherine, appeared to have fallen on deaf ears as the local authorities have insisted that an alarm was raised at the onset of...

Published:Friday | April 17, 2020 | 12:23 AM

Call centre workers affected by the closure of Alorica’s operations at both its Kingston and Portmore offices because of an in-house spread of the new coronavirus will have to settle for salary cuts. They were advised through a memo by management...

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