Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Government is on track to introduce legislation for the ticketing of persons not wearing masks in public, as part of coronavirus (COVID-19) containment measures stipulated in the Disaster Risk Management Act (....

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Trinidad's Health Minister, Terrence Deyalsingh, on Monday disclosed that Trinidad and Tobago will get only a third of the doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines expected from the COVAX Facility this month...

LONDON (AP) -- Buckingham Palace said Tuesday that allegations of racism made earlier this week by Prince Harry and Meghan were "concerning" and would be addressed privately by the royal family. The comments, made in a statement...

The People's National Party (PNP) is calling on the Government to revisit its Work from Home Policy, especially for employees over 60 years old. Opposition spokesperson on Labour and Social Security, Senator Dr Floyd Morris says, "...

A team of officers assigned to the Kingston Eastern Police Division say they have arrested and charged a construction worker with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition during a joint police/military operation on Monday. Charged is...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Government is prepared to take more stringent measures, including a national lockdown, if the number of positive cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to rise. "These measures will have an impact...

Jamaica on Monday recorded six more COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 460. Those who have died are: A 71-year-old male from Trelawny A 78-year-old male from Trelawny A 36-year-old female from St James An 81-year-old male from Trelawny A 64-year....

MILAN (AP) -- Russia has signed a deal to produce its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Italy, the first contract in the European Union, the Italian Russian Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday. The deal was signed with Adienne Srl, the...

A bus conductor of Race Course district in Oracabessa, St Mary, died as a result of injuries he received when he was hit by a motor vehicle on DaCosta Drive in St Ann on Sunday. Reports from the St Ann's Bay Police are that...

The man captured in a video on Sunday allegedly breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act has been arrested and charged. He has been identified as 42-year-old Stephen Witter of a Stony Hill, St Andrew address. Witter was charged...

The Lucea police in Hanover have commenced an investigation surrounding the death of a minister of religion, whose headless body was discovered along a dirt track at New Town district, in Sandy Bay on Monday morning. He has been identified as 40-....

March 5, 2021, will forever be etched in the memories of the Salmon siblings as that precious day when they finally located a long-lost sister. It was only a few hours after Shellion Salmon's story of attempting to locate sister Jacqueline...

Jamaica yesterday received its first batch of 50,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from India, which will start to be administered on Wednesday, March 10. "As per the standard we indicated, the vaccination programme will begin 48 hours after...

On any given day, if one should visit 15 Ashoka Road in Waterhouse, St Andrew, they would find Mellissa Powell helping children with their homework or school projects. "I love what I do and I always tell the children that some of Jamaica's...

As the COVID-19 figures continue to rise in Portland, a wave of fear has emerged among some residents who are now calling for more stringent measures to halt illegal parties and the so-called drink outs. This after 58 new cases were reported for.....

Despite the soaring COVID-19 cases, several micro business owners in downtown Kingston are against a national lockdown, and want the Government to find other alternatives to stop the spread of the virus. "That (lockdown) a go be a big blow to me.....

President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Jamaica, Dr Winsome Christie, is urging Jamaicans to take the COVID-19 vaccines once they become available. "There are some myths about the vaccine that they go into your cells and change you and make......

Seventy-three-year-old Easton Sharpe was a picture of despondence as he looked on his cookshop that had been reduced to ashes. The elderly man's business place was among a few buildings that were ravaged by an early-morning fire last Friday in......

Jamaica a short while ago received its first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. The 50,000 doses of Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine touched down at the Norman Manley International Airport at about 4:45 p.m., this afternoon. The vaccines were donated to the.....

Crime scene investigators are now trying to locate the head of a man whose body was discovered along a dirt track in Sandy Bay, Hanover this morning. The victim is believed to be a pastor from St James. Investigators say he was last seen alive...