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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...