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...
BENI, Congo (AP): A new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in eastern Congo, just three days before the country expected to declare an end to the outbreak, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The new case was confirmed in Beni, a...
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...
Mandeville, Manchester: Four days after the sudden passing of veteran Manchester cop Sergeant Garfield Morgan, colleagues, friends and relatives are still reeling from the shock of their loss. Morgan, who spent more than 30 years in the Jamaica...
President of the Jamaica Household Workers Union, Shirley Pryce, says a significant number of domestic helpers are feeling the pinch in the wake of COVID-19 and its impact on the country. She says that many did not qualify for certain benefits...
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...
Kenisha Gordon, the councillor for the Spanish Town Division in St Catherine has resigned. Gordon announced her resignation in a terse letter to the chairman of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation Norman Scott on Thursday but...
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...
As students across the island continue to adjust to the new normal of online learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic, creative intervention and behaviour modification company CHANCE is making it easier by meeting the...
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...
WESTERN BUREAU: Falmouth Mayor Collen Gager is calling for the installation of additional surveillance cameras around the Trelawny capital in the aftermath of Sunday’s daring heist in which criminals posing as police officers robbed a Chinese...
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...
Calling on Jamaicans to make a sacrifice to limit the spread of COVID-19 over the Easter holidays, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday introduced tighter curfews and other restrictions, effectively clamping down on festivities during the...
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...
From downtown to uptown, Tashi Brown and her 17-year-old daughter, Tashean Thomspon, ran into a series of closed doors for more than an hour as they tried to get a hot meal yesterday. That has become the grim reality for foodies long used to a wide...
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...
When Jamaica starts emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, it should look for opportunities to raise the level of exports, says Mark Williams, CEO of Kingston Wharves Limited. “We can feed Jamaica, and perhaps we can do that well, but there is now...
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...
Flying their Out of Many, One People flag high, several Chinese groups yesterday joined together to deliver food and personal protective equipment (PPE) to the doctors and nurses attached to the COVID-19 ward at The University Hospital of the West...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declined to say whether the government will be providing assistance for the 45 Jamaican ship workers who were denied landing in Kingston last week. The Jamaicans, aboard the Marella Discovery 2, are now heading to Portugal.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ declaration yesterday that the Government will extend an islandwide nightly curfew is expected to further drive down murders in Jamaica, a consequential benefit to the administration’s attempt to tighten the screws...
Vice-president of the People’s National Party (PNP), Phillip Paulwell, has sought to rally supporters worried about the health of Dr Peter Phillips that the party will not suffer as he takes a two-week break from active political duties. Following...
Twenty-eight-year-old Mona Johnson*, the mother of two boys aged 11 and two, admits to be bordering on depression. She is now out of work, having been laid off recently after working three years as a domestic helper. “I really don’t know what the...
A risk analysis study commissioned by the Cabinet and spearheaded by Dr Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr, director of the Mona Geoinformatics Institute at The University of the West Indies, has found that more than 40 communities in the Kingston Metropolitan...
