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The usually busy thoroughfares of Mocho, Clarendon, were hauntingly transformed into a ghost town yesterday over concerns that the alleged father of the first patient who was confirmed as having contracted COVID-19 in Jamaica may have been...

Some parents have welcomed the Government’s order that all schools be closed for an initial 14-day period because of the snowballing threat from COVID-19. The shutdown takes effect today. The COVID-19 pandemic has killed approximately 5,000 people...

The Jamaican Government is working to expedite the delivery of vital hospital equipment in anticipation that COVID-19, the infections disease caused by the novel coronavirus, will peak here in about eight weeks. This is based on modelling...

Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips is urging the Government to consider temporarily removing the collection of general consumption tax (GCT) on certain items as the country braces for the possible spread of COVID-19. “Government should also...

The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry is calling on the Government to immediately waive all import duties on anti-coronavirus-related products as part of the overall drive to minimise the impact of the disease in Jamaica. In a press...

The cancellation of this year’s ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships is set to cause a huge economic fallout, with over $150 million in direct losses and hundreds of millions more in unfulfilled incidental earnings expected....

Party promoters and event coordinators will have to wait two weeks before receiving permits to host large gatherings. All permits already issued will be revoked. This was the declaration of Prime Minister Andrew Holness at an emergency press...

Parents have been urged by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to prepare to keep their children at home should the outbreak of COVID-19 threaten mass closures. In a press briefing yesterday evening, Holness announced that amid fears of the spread of...

Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has defended the $18-billion tax break package that forms a major plank of the 2020-2021 Budget. He said that the decision to cut general consumption tax (GCT) by 1.5 percentage points and...

GEORGETOWN (CMC): Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire ruled on Wednesday that the declaration made by the returning officer in Region Four in Guyana’s disputed regional and general elections on March 2 was “unlawful” and in breach of the...

A day after the confirmation of Jamaica’s first coronavirus patient, several merchants of bulk chemicals and other cleaning agents have been swamped with customers hunting essentials. At Island Products Bulk Chemicals in Pembroke Hall, St Andrew,...

Golden-age homes and infirmaries in Jamaica have ramped up protocols as they exercise caution for the elderly, the cohort regarded as the most vulnerable to the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday, The Gleaner visited at least five public...