Two recovered COVID-19 patients have painted a terrifying picture of the operations at the Montego Bay-based Cornwall Regional Hospital as it comes under pressure as virus cases spike, a situation Western Regional Health Authority head Errol Greene....

As the nation continues to wait for Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton to take the COVID-19 vaccine, more troubling developments are emerging that powerful interests and their relatives are being given jabs with....

After almost two decades of remaining vacant, the death house in Braeton, St Catherine, where seven men were controversially killed in a police operation exactly 20 years ago, now has its first occupant. Rudolph Lewis, a Rastafarian returning...

The state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) loses approximately $1 million every year because of theft or fraud involving employees, even as it has gobbled up almost $40 billion in taxpayer-funded bailouts since 2010. But even amid...

A year after the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, as it sent lives and economies into free fall, videos of elderly relatives crying on the shoulders of their children and grandchildren in the Unites States have......

The island’s courier service providers are haemorrhaging hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in revenue due to cargo flight delays that have resulted in missed deadlines and have forced heavy customer discounts for items long past......

Persons with disabilities (PWDs) continue to rank among the hardest hit by the pandemic as the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI), in its latest study, points a magnifying glass at the efficiency of the island’s social safety net, and the...

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....