Nestled in Irish Town, St Andrew, on a multi-crop farm is a sustainable farmhouse built from mainly natural materials. The Mudhouse is representative of a modern design using a traditional construction method, wattle and daub. It is...
WESTERN BUREAU: Audley Gordon, executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), is warning scavengers who sort and collect things for personal use or resale from the landfill at Retirement, in St. James, to stay away...
Officials of Symbiote Investments Limited, which trades as Caricel, were among several persons on Thursday charged with breaches of the Telecommunications Act following a ruling by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Symbiote CEO...
The Jamaica Veterinary Medical Association (JVMA) has added its voice to the list of organisations calling on all Jamaicans to do their part in combating the spread of SARS-CoV-2, or the novel coronavirus, by remaining informed and observing safety...
Health authorities in Clarendon have isolated three patients overnight, who turned up with flu-like symptoms. One of the patients is reported to have interacted with the 79-year-old man from Corn Piece in the parish who died two days ago from complications with the COVID-19.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday gave an ominous warning that cases of COVID-19 in Jamaica could surge, based on what has occurred in other countries. “From the data, and looking at the experience of other countries, it is my duty to prepare...
With the COVID-19 pandemic turning its screws on the Jamaican economy, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday announced a stimulus package to reduce interest rates by one percentage point to new National Housing Trust (NHT) borrowers while...
In a grim assessment of the aviation industry’s tailspin, Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett said yesterday that traditional tourism as “we know it” is coming to a screeching halt. The minister, who was responding to a United States Department of...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday criticised as “weak fences” Jamaican travellers who give incomplete or wrong information to immigration officials. His broadside during his Budget Debate presentation in Parliament came 24 hours after a voice...
WESTERN BUREAU: The uncertainty that comes with lay-offs has been eased for the 115 members of staff at Sunset at the Palms in Negril as the hotel closes its doors in the wake of COVID-19. The 86-room resort, owned and operated by Ian Kerr and his...
Principal of Old Harbour High School, Lynton Weir, has suggested that schools proceed on the Easter and summer breaks should COVID-19 sweep Jamaica. All infant, primary, and secondary schools, as well as tertiary institutions, have been ordered...
An elderly man from Corn Piece Settlement in Clarendon could be one of many contacts the Ministry of Health will be following in relation to the traveller from New York who was confirmed as Jamaica’s first fatality of COVID-19. The community was...
Dwayne Gordon is a resident of Riverton Meadows who is engaged in scrap-metal trading. The bulk of the items he trades for cash are salvaged from the community dump that hoovers up all the solid waste generated in the Corporate Area. But when...
WESTERN BUREAU: Most business operators in the western parish of Hanover are reportedly experiencing a major slowdown because of the incidence of COVID-19 though supermarkets are seeing a spike in business from panic-buying. Gare Whittaker,...
The Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ) has welcomed the positive response by the Government to its request for a waiver on computers to be used by select employees under a work-from-home (WAH) arrangement as the nation combats the spread...
A Westmoreland woman seen in a viral video being punched repeatedly by her boyfriend has reportedly told police investigators that she does not wish to press criminal charges against him. In a release issued on Thursday, the police Corporate...
“It nuh make nuh sense.” That’s the conclusion of Bull Bay resident Sophia Rhoden, who has characterised as a sieve the quarantine imposed on the communities of Seven Miles and Eight Miles since last Friday. She echoed the sentiments of several...
Three weeks after the disappearance of visually impaired University of the West Indies (UWI) student Jasmine Deen, investigators are banking on the photo of a man taken about 30 minutes before her final trace as crucial to cracking the case. The...
MANDEVILLE, Manchester: The fearful family of the 79-year-old man who was confirmed as Jamaica’s first COVID-19 death has been ordered to self-isolate to safeguard against contagion as the country grapples with imported cases and local...
It might be a stretch to say that TerryKay Datadeen is at sixes and sevens in trying to strike a balance between being full-time supermom and work-at-home power exec. But the manager of Digicel Jamaica’s customer experience unit said that while...
Come next Monday, the South East Regional Health Authority (SEHRA) will have a retired senior police officer as part of its team to complement workers to strengthen the body’s investigative capacity in the wake of the theft of anti-COVID-19...
Online food delivery services are sinking their teeth into bigger profits as Jamaicans skip crowded restaurants and opt to stay indoors in line with a COVID-19 ban on mass gatherings. Starting yesterday, the Government imposed crowd-control...
The mantra of “service above self” has given nine-year-old Courtney Greaves the motivation to be an angel of compassion in the fight against the novel coronavirus outbreak in Jamaica. Having realised how fatal COVID-19 is to the elderly, Courtney...
Panic has frozen the southern Clarendon community of Corn Piece Settlement near Lionel Town following reports that one of its residents is Jamaica's first patient to die as a result of the Coronavirus. The 79-year-old male whose name is being withheld recently returned to Jamaica from New York.
With fewer than 100 persons tested since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Jamaica last Tuesday, raising questions about the country’s capacity, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday declared that there is enough...
