Opposition Senator Donna Scott Mottley is calling for adequate care for prisons and lock-ups and for the Holness administration to rethink its rejection of the early release of low-risk inmates amid the swirling COVID-19 pandemic. Scott Mottley,...
A number of professionals and workers in the essential services, including parliamentarians and healthcare personnel, have been exempted from the nationwide nightly curfew that takes effect later today. Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced in...
The postponement of in-person classes until after Easter is taking a toll on a single mother whose daughter is finding it challenging preparing for upcoming Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) exams. From lack of Internet connectivity to being...
The People’s National Party is dissatisfied with the number of COVID-19 tests being carried out by the country’s health ministry, arguing that there are gaps in the apparatus that could be presenting misleading numbers to the public. The party’s...
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF) will be seeking to remedy the glut of farm produce on the local market with an injection of $240 million. COVID-19 has dealt a crippling blow to the hotel industry and has...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the all-round dislocation caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) says that the multibillion-dollar restoration work at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) will continue, despite...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the global spread of COVID-19 becoming increasingly ominous, the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) says it is boosting its isolation room and protective gear capacity for hospitals for which it has oversight. Errol...
The Opposition benches were empty in Parliament on Tuesday as the Government announced the people who will be exempted from the islandwide nightly curfew which begins on April 1. The curfew will run until April 8 from 8 p.m to 6 a.m daily. The...
IRIE FM radio station went off air Tuesday afternoon as employees stopped working to protest against the management's decision to lay off six of their colleagues. Managing director Debian Dewar was contacted by phone late Tuesday evening,...
The Health Ministry has reported that a second coronavirus (COVID-19) patient has died. The patient, who the Health Ministry says was recovering, died this afternoon at the University of Hospital of the West Indies. According to the ministry, the...
A request to undertake efforts to pool rights to technologies for the detection, control and treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic is being welcomed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organization of American States (OAS). The proposal...
Starting tomorrow, Jamaicans will be under an all-island curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. to slow down the spread of COVID-19, which has killed one person locally, with another 35 infected with the virus. It will last for seven days. Members of the...
A group of young men in Brown’s Town, St Ann, decided they would not let the novel coronavirus spoil their leisure time, so they got together on Sunday to hold a social-media cook-off titled ‘Mi and Mi Bredda Dem Good’. Coordinated by Richardo...
The United States Embassy in Kingston says America is not seeking to get health professionals to abandon their nation’s fight against COVID-19 to bolster its own capacity, having “clarified” an appeal that the State Department acknowledged was...
Some seasonal Jamaican hotel workers in Miami, Florida, who missed the March 24 deadline to return to Jamaica before borders closed are pleading for the Government to help them return home. The workers said that they are at risk of eviction...
WESTERN BUREAU: A team of cops from the Lacovia Police Station in St Elizabeth yesterday survived a brazen gun attack by robbers who shot up their service vehicle before making their escape. The criminals had earlier held up and robbed a motorist...
WESTERN BUREAU: The absence of Internet access is creating jitters in some Hanover communities as teachers and parents worry that their children, especially those sitting the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination, will be at a significant...
Trucks loaded with food and other essential items were gifted to four charities for donation to Jamaica’s neediest and vulnerable as the country grapples with the economic and social fallout from COVID-19. At the handover ceremony on Monday,...
One girl was eight years old. Her sister was nine. Both are victims of gun violence who survived a cold-blooded attack in a country otherwise distracted by the displacement wrought by COVID-19. Border McIntosh, their uncle, is thankful to be...
The Health Ministry is reporting that 'Patient 5' has now recovered from the coronavirus (COVID-19) and was on Sunday night discharged from hospital. In the meantime, one person who came in contact with 'Patient 5' and contracted the virus remains in isolation receiving treatment.
Several nurses at the Percy Junor Hospital in Manchester have been sent home to be quarantined after being exposed by a male patient who last week tested positive for the coronavirus.
One man was last night shot dead and two sisters among three children injured in an attack in Mount Ogle near Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew.The St Andrew North Police said the incident happened about 8 o'clock at an area called S-Corner.The deceased has been identified...
The police have nabbed a man they allege is the mastermind behind a viral hoax voice note claiming Westmoreland was being placed under a lockdown because of the COVID-19 outbreak. Law enforcers yesterday said they have charged Zavian Patterson, 37...
Jamaica last night recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19 among healthcare workers, opening a new frontier of contraction that might raise concerns about protocols and gear to protect front-line public-health personnel . Hospital staff have...
The Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) is already seeing its bottom line bleed from the economic slowdown caused by COVID-19, costing the power provider hundreds of millions of dollars with the onset of the fallout into its early stages....
