Picking apart one of the central highlights of Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke’s Budget presentation, Opposition Leader Mark Golding cast a Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) dividend of $33 billion as the fruit of an effective tax that has oppressed the poor...

A HawkEye security guard died valiantly while responding to a robbery in progress at the Public Sector Employees Co-operative Credit Union at the Caribbean Estate housing development in Portmore on Tuesday. An eyewitness said that four gunmen were.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Several staffers within the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) have been reassigned after an investigation was launched on Tuesday into 10 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine that went missing from the Cornwall Regional Hospital in.....

When Waterford residents saw Stephanie Hamilton wandering around the community naked on Sunday, nobody fathomed it was the last time the mentally ill woman would have been seen alive. The shock was palpable when a resident asked aloud on Tuesday, �...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding said the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) guarantor system should be abolished as it is undermining the path to prosperity for children from low-income households. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke, in opening the Budget....

An audit is under way into the roll-out of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which met with challenges in the first two days when some persons not slated to receive the jab were thrust to the front of the line to be inoculated. Permanent secretary in the...

Jamaica Labour Party Councillor Kari Douglas, who is accused of hitting a police corporal and obstructing him in the execution of his duty, is to return to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on May 20. The 37-year-old politician, who...

Senate President Tom Tavares-Finson is looking forward to returning to the courtroom when Jamaica achieves herd immunity against COVID-19. “One of the things that I miss is going to court because that’s my primary occupation,” said Tavares-Fi...

A security guard has succumbed to bullet wounds he received during a robbery at the Public Sector Cooperative Credit Union at the Caribbean Estate in Portmore, St Catherine this afternoon. Another has been hospitalised with a bullet wound to his...

Regional Director of the Western Regional Health Authority Errol Greene has reported that one vial with ten doses of the COVID vaccine has disappeared from the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James. Greene told The Gleaner a short while ago that.....

Parliamentarians and heads of government ministries, departments and agencies who are 60 years and older will start receiving their COVID vaccines today. Last week, frontline health care workers started receiving. Members of the Jamaica...

As the Government ramps up its efforts to secure COVID-19 vaccines amid a tight market as developed countries hoard jabs, National Health Fund (NHF) Chairman Howard Mitchell has disclosed that one supplier has expressed that it can allocate two...

Damownie Johnson, the 24-year-old son of the late Woman Sgt Tameicha Powell of the Clarendon Division, is ruing a missed chance to tell her he loved her for a final time as the cop passed away while being transported to hospital for emergency...

“What have they done with my sample?” That’s the question bugging mental health nurse Angela James after an apparent bungling in the testing chain at the University Hospital of the West Indies resulted in her not getting her COVID-19 result an...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Jamaicans who literally earn their bread daily have been finding it difficult to adhere to COVID-19 protocols and remain isolated whether confirmed or suspected to have contracted the virus, saying they have to sustain...

A flood of senior citizens who turned up for COVID-19 jabs without appointments at The Good Samaritan Inn in Kingston yesterday created a logistical headache for administrators seeking to vaccinate private healthcare workers. Admitting that they...

As the Government earmarks the single-largest spend in any one fiscal year on infrastructure projects, Jamaica’s single anti-corruption body says it will utilise a special mechanism in the Integrity Commission Act to table in Parliament an interim...

A health inspector assigned to the Greater Portmore Health Centre has expressed concern that despite a colleague working in the same office testing positive for COVID-19, other members of staff who were potentially exposed were instructed to report....

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says despite the rise in COVID hospitalisations and deaths, Jamaica is still doing "fairly well". According to Tufton, Jamaica’s death rate is now 1.6 per cent of total infections. That is below...

“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 Dunca...