Face-to-face classes have been shut down for all students and lockdowns imposed for three weekends from March 26 until April 12 as the Holness administration seeks to rein in a runaway wave of COVID-19 infections. The country has recorded 533...

Complaints of misconduct by the army and police force skyrocketed last year as the Holness administration increased its reliance on states of emergency (SOEs) and joint patrols to rein in crime. But analysis does not suggest that the widening...

The Government is not shy in admitting that the global shortage of COVID-19 vaccines is weighing on the mind of the Holness administration, but it is holding firm that it will only use products approved by the World Health Organization (WHO). That.....

Kenny Robinson, the father of 12-year-old Marquis, is a nervous man. Marquis, who suffers from a condition known as slipped upper femoral epiphysis (SUFE), has undergone two surgeries to correct the problem and is slated to do a third. But a...

The funeral sector, which had squealed when the Government shut down burials and funerals as unruly mourners flouted COVID-19 containment rules, is again crying foul even as some measures will be relaxed. During a press conference at Jamaica House....

Nurse Sheffanese Knight has been administering the COVID-19 Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine since March 10, and she has had to find creative means of calming those whose phobias magnify needles into swords. Among the playful strategies she uses is to...

The police and the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) have launched probes into the stabbing death of a detainee, allegedly by another inmate, at the Negril lock-up in Westmoreland on Friday night. The dead prisoner has been...

HEALTHCARE OFFICIALS have expressed optimism that Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton’s decision on Friday to get the COVID-19 jab will be a shot in the arm for the islandwide vaccination drive. Tufton and Prime Minister Andrew...

Montego Bay-based Bioprist Pharmaceuticals, a company led by medical doctor and entrepreneur Dr Guna Muppuri, has signed a deal for the exclusive importation and distribution in Jamaica of the India-made COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin. Made by Indian...

Jamaica on Saturday recorded another nine COVID deaths pushing the tally to 533. At the same time, there were 673 new COVID cases with ages ranging from 10 days to 108 years. COVID deaths A 72-year-old man from Kingston and St Andrew A 82...

Sixteen-year-old Ahyele Rodney has come to a crossroads – if not a dead end – in his pursuit of becoming a doctor and one day taking care of his mom, who is suffering from a mental illness. At least that’s how the student of Central High in......

A silent surge in mental health disorders triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has placed Jamaica on the verge of a crisis that could have devastating long-term implications, medical experts have warned. There are fears, too, that amid the escalating....

The administrators of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of four critically ill COVID-19 patients at the facility last Thursday night. Reliable.....

As St James battles a continued rise in COVID-19 cases and a public heath system under severe pressure, rogue villas, taxi operators, businesses and illegal parties are being fingered as the major sources of concern in the fight to bring infection.....

If the father of the young man who Dante Brooks, son of dancehall artiste Movado, and his co-accused, Andre Hinds, murdered could have traded place with his son, he would. This was evident from the heartache and pain expressed in the victim impact....

In another massive blow to the reputation of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), two of its members have been charged with serious sexual offences including rape at the army’s Up Park Camp Headquarters in St Andrew. At the centre of the latest...

After loud calls from some quarters for key government officials to lead by example and to take the AstraZeneca vaccine, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday took the jab at the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine. Tufton.....

Haunted by memories of her three-year-old daughter’s near-death experience from failing to get the diphtheria vaccine, Rastafarian Yvonne Hope intends to depart from the anti-vaccination stance of her religious community. The Rastafarian veteran.....

The distribution of care packages to 30 families of students of the Elletson Primary and Infant School on Friday will make a big difference in their lives. However, there are another 20 families which the school identified as being in desperate...

COVID-19 had a hand in Thursday’s commemoration of Global Recycling Day by Recycling Partners of Jamaica Limited, as many members of the public took the Government’s ‘tan a you yaad’ mandate to heart and opted not to turn out for the collect...