A member of the judiciary is suggesting that Parliament consider legislation to make it mandatory for a mother and father to spend a minimum number of hours per week or month with their children. The recommendation is made in a context where the...

Friday the 13th has for decades been a date of dread and danger, but a relative of Jamaica’s first COVID-19 patient remembers that day in March 2020 as the pivotal moment that redefined her family’s lives. Gloria Clarke had died days earlier and...

Scores of patients and medical personnel at the National Chest Hospital in St Andrew had to scamper for cover yesterday after a prisoner disarmed a policeman and shot another before escaping from the premises. The prisoner, Ricardo Richards, also.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Marcia Graham, medical officer of health at the Westmoreland Public Health Services, said that the parish’s 34-bed COVID-19 ward is full to capacity and overflowing. “When we look at our isolation ward, we are at 115 per cent....

The sentencing for the man who drove the getaway car in the killing of banker Andrea Lowe-Garwood has been postponed to March 19 in the Home Circuit Court. Leon Hines was scheduled to be sentenced yesterday on charges of illegal possession of...

Members of the Rastafarian faith group, Ethiopian African Black International Congress (EABIC), have come out in strong support of Royan Harris, the St Thomas man who has accused the police of wrongfully invading his property and destroying his...

Professor Eudine Barriteau, pro vice-chancellor and principal of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill campus in Barbados, has painted a troubling picture about the state of the institution’s finances. “The Cave Hill campus is at th...

Despite the Govern­ment’s proposed roll-out of its $60 billion SERVE Jamaica programme this fiscal year, the parliamentary Opposition says the administration’s budgetary allocation is insufficient to tackle the deepening economic and social fal...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says Jamaica is to receive a shipment of 14,400 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine next Monday as the island steps up its COVID-19 vaccination drive. He said that this is the first delivery under the....

Nurse Shauna Callum-Lindsay and Doctor Sandra Doe*, both healthcare workers at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), have experienced both joy and fear in the past year as expectant mothers on the COVID-19 front lines. Thirty-nine-...

A Clarendon councillor has called on Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton to take the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine publicly to inspire confidence in the shots among Jamaicans. Councillor...

Eighty-one-year-old retired nurse Herma Bryant-Manning was among those stepping forward for her first jab of the AstraZeneca vaccine for protection from the deadly coronavirus at the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon yesterday. “I have seen what is......

A former ward of the State who claimed that he was forced to murder Simone Campbell-Collymore as repayment for a missing gun has now asked the family to forgive him for the immense suffering that he has caused. He is also hoping that the family of....

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: The health authorities in Manchester are now seeking additional space in Mandeville to continue its vaccination programme, which it kicked off on Wednesday with front-line healthcare workers at the Mandeville Regional...

Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson railed against a plan by the Universal Service Fund (USF) to outfit only two sites in each of the 63 constituencies across the island with Internet access in the 2021-2022 fiscal year. Initially, the....

The police are asking alleged Bedward Gardens gangster Akeem ‘Duppy O’ Thomas, who they say is a top-tier member of the Berry Gang, to turn himself in to the nearest police station immediately. On the heels of Thomas’ interview with The Gleane...

The Opposition is pushing for the Government to spend $21.5 billion more to accelerate economic growth.  In his contribution to the Budget Debate, Julian Robinson, the Opposition spokesman on finance said the additional expenditure would...

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...