A year to the day Jamaica recorded its first coronavirus infection, healthcare workers pulled up their sleeves and launched a pivotal assault on a disease that has crippled the country. Public health nurse Marcia Thomas-Yetman, who was pictured on.....

“I don’t want to die today.” Those were the soft-spoken words of Bedward Gardens resident Akeem ‘Duppy O’ Thomas on Wednesday during a despairing phone call to The Gleaner shortly before negotiations for his surrender...

Young vaccine naysayers have been warned to learn at the feet of elders about the benefits of inoculation to Jamaica following devastating outbreaks in the 1980s that crippled the society. That advice came from veteran broadcaster and...

After experiencing prolonged flulike symptoms, Michael Woods took the plunge and went to his family doctor to get checked out. The last thing the now 58-year-old photographer expected to hear, after several assessments, was that he had colorectal......

Head of the paediatric department at the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital, Dr Coralie Antoine, has added her voice to those encouraging Jamaicans to take the AstraZeneca vaccine for the COVID-19 virus. Antoine, who was the first person in St Ann to...

The Jamaican Bar Association has raised concern that there is no provision in the current National Identification and Registration Act (NIRA) for an individual’s data to be purged from the database if a cancellation is requested. Making a...

The slaying of a 52-year-old disabled man, allegedly by his 21-year-old son, in Greater Portmore, St Catherine, has left a family in turmoil. Residents are equally shocked about the tragedy, which unfolded at about 8:50 p.m. on Monday, claiming the....

Professor Edwin Jones has been hailed as a Caribbean luminary with a passion for public policy and management who distinguished himself as the go-to man on deep philosophical matters. Jones, who had been ailing for some time, died at hospital on......

President of the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ), Dr Andrew Manning, has asserted that if a significant percentage of healthcare workers decline to take the COVID-19 vaccine, it could spell trouble for public health. Three nurses died from...

Public health nurse Marcia Thomas Yetman was the first to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Jamaica this morning. She was inoculated at the Good Samaritan Inn in St Andrew by public health nurse Fiona Ellis. Thomas Yetman is among a host of...

Pushing aggressively for herd immunity in Jamaica within the new fiscal year, the Holness administration announced on Tuesday a $60-billion allocation aimed at purchasing COVID-19 vaccines and dedicated to social and economic recovery under an...

Fear of the coronavirus has convinced Maureen Haslam to take the coronavirus jab the first chance she gets. But the 35-year-old Spanish Town resident still has lots of unanswered questions about the vaccine. Waiting...

Seven months after a coronavirus quarantine was imposed on Sandy Bay, residents of the southeast Clarendon community say they are still haunted by memories of the stigma. That has been one of the grim undercurrents of COVID-19, the disease that was....

The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) is in support of a resolution to limit the time frame on requests for past statutory declarations. The resolution was passed by the St Mary Municipal Corporation at its recent sitting of the.....

WESTERN BUREAU: While applauding a successful first day of operations at the newly opened field hospital in Falmouth, Trelawny, Errol Greene, the regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), is appealing for greater compliance....

A member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and his ex-colleague who were both accused of the fatal shooting of a teenager during a police operation in Kingston nine years ago were on Monday freed of murder when they appeared in the Gun Court....

Another former top executive at Jamaica’s state-owned oil refinery Petrojam is expected to be slapped with fraud-related charges early next week, senior law enforcement sources have disclosed. The former executive voluntarily returned to the isla...

Despite launching a broadside at those who have flagrantly flouted safety rules amid a surge of COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has held back from imposing further restrictions amid a lingering lockdown debate. Thirteen of 22...

The highly contagious United Kingdom variant of the coronavirus called B.1.1.7 has been confirmed to be spreading in Jamaica. The development was announced by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton at a press briefing Monday evening.......

From a sidewalk with head in hands on Monday, Marcia Hall sat staring at smoke rising from the debris as she pondered how to regain $30,000 in tuition fees she had saved for her daughter, Alitia ‘Hope’ Williams. There was no time to think where...