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Ratings agency Fitch has said the Jamaican economy is expected to contract by four per cent this year as the shock from the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the foreign currency revenues drying up. Fitch yesterday revised Jamaica’s outlook from...

LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson needs time to recover from the new coronavirus and is unlikely to be back at work soon, his father said on Friday, as millions of Britons began an Easter holiday weekend in lockdown and the UK...

A major initiative to get commuters and residents using the Waterford bus terminal to wash their hands before boarding buses and taxis has been launched in an effort to keep the coronavirus out of the community. Waterford is located in Portmore, St...

Councillor for the Hayes division in Clarendon, Scean Barnswell, wants the Ministry of Health...

In the cool climes of Chantilly, Manchester, there lives a woman named Ena Francis. Some people call her Miss Kitsy. Her birth certificate says she will be 79 in December. Born in Royal Flats in the said parish, she moved to Chantilly, where her...

WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says he is cautiously optimistic that COVID-19 will subside over the next six months and that normality could return to the sector by December going into January...

WESTERN BUREAU: Spanish ambassador to Jamaica, Josep Maria Bosch, says the Spanish Jamaica Foundation has channelled almost all the funds in its account to the island’s COVID-19 battle. He was speaking at a...

The HOLNESS administration is contemplating what it describes as a “controlled re-entry” of Jamaicans who have been stranded overseas and those who have a strong desire to return home. Jamaica closed its borders to incoming passengers on March 24...

The Police Federation has lambasted Jamaica Labour Party Councillor Kari Douglas for disrespecting officers “in the professional execution of their duties”, charging that no one was above the law. Douglas, councillor for the Trafalgar division in...

As Europe grapples with mass deaths and Asian nations like Japan face a second wave of the novel coronavirus, Vietnam’s military strategy has been credited with successfully battling COVID-19. Jamaican media professional Gabrielle Nain has been...

Mandeville, Manchester: With six confirmed cases of the deadly coronavirus in the central Jamaica parish of Manchester, Mandeville Mayor Donovan Mitchell believes areas that areas that attract a high volume of people daily should be closed to help...