“Him never come home last night and him will never come home forever.” That was Iona Caine’s cry on Sunday as her eldest son, who was enlisted in the Jamaica Defence Force, died tragically at sea, plunging his family into mourning. Otis Dunc...

Misinformation and anxiety among the elderly have been blamed for a wave of Jamaicans turning up at hospitals without an appointment and disrupting COVID-19 vaccination schedules. Opportunists have also been cited for piggybacking on qualified...

Hours after indicating it was softening its stance on an absolute ban on burials, the Holness administration has received flak for reinstituting internments under ultra-restrictive rules. The new order, aimed at curbing the risk of coronavirus...

The Jamaican Government has tossed the strategy of imposing quarantines on COVID-19 hotspots as redundant and useless as the sixth week of an unprecedented wave of infections sweeps the country. That is the diagnosis of Health and Wellness Minister....

Britney Francis has been on the edge since last December, when her world turned upside down after she was informed that her three-year-old daughter has Stage-Four neuroblastoma, a rare type of childhood cancer. The devastated 21-year-old mother......

There is a renewed call to crack down on the use of absorption pits in the community of Roaring River amid the threat that Westmoreland’s largest source of potable water could become contaminated. Steve Morris, the parish’s chief health inspecto...

Grange: Monument to ‘Aunt V’ ready by September A life-size bust will be erected in the Trelawny district of Duanvale to honour the memory of Violet Moss-Brown, the one-time oldest living person in the world who passed away on September 15, 2...

Twenty at-risk youths from Rose Town, Kingston, will be given a second chance at becoming “confident and independent” Jamaicans when they commence training in a construction internship programme, come April. The programme, which was launched la...

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...