Uncertainty looms over whether the Jamaican Government’s immunisation drive will be hamstrung after India placed a temporary hold on all exports of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Rising infections in the subcontinent have driven up...

Comrade Karen Cross, who wrote a scandalously damaging letter alleging paedophilia by a senior official of the People’s National Party (PNP), is refusing to say whether she has made a report to the police or will withdraw the comments. That...

Owen Dixon was a picture of grief as he lay on the grave of his late nephew taking selfies against the backdrop of emblazoned photos of the soccer star on the headstone on February 26. Dixon last saw Rushawn Duncan alive in the Cayman Islands in...

With tears streaming down his face, veteran racehorse groom Linval ‘Pickings’ McFarlane could hardly contain his emotion hours after learning that 18-time champion trainer Wayne daCosta had died. DaCosta, who had COVID-19, passed away on Wednes...

As Jamaica prepares for the pilot phase of a digital delivery system to be rolled out in the imminent lockdowns, several food and pharmaceutical stakeholders have expressed reservation about its success. Others just don’t have a clue. The...

Omar Johnson, a reputed high-profile member of the G-City Gang, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a home-invasion murder in Montego Bay, St James, last year. Justice Stephanie Jackson Haisley, who imposed the sentence, ordered that...

Despite the initial fear of contracting COVID-19 and the dreaded stigma that plagued their communities following state-ordered lockdowns last year, many residents of York and Bamboo River in St Thomas are adamant that they will not be taking the...

A pastor in Brown’s Town, St Ann, who had been waging a campaign on social media against Prime Minister Andrew Holness and the COVID-19 measures he had been implementing had predicted from as early as August 2020 that he was going to be arrested.....

Fresh on the heels of dancehall star Tommy Lee Sparta’s three-year imprisonment on gun charges, Superintendent Vernon Ellis, commanding officer for St James, is warning members of the Sparta Gang that their days are numbered. The artiste, whose......

Retiring Supreme Court Judge Glen Brown has expressed disappointment with the huge backlog of criminal cases. Brown will leave the bench this month after 44 years in the government service. 

The Opposition warned on Tuesday that amended coronavirus legislation giving the prime minister power, unfettered by Parliament, to make orders attracting criminal sanctions presented a dangerous overreach on democracy. But Opposition Leader Mark......

In a high-drama session of Parliament on Tuesday, Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke ripped into the Budget presentations of the Opposition, saying they lacked due diligence and were rife with falsehoods. Clarke took aim especially at Julian Robinson...

Child-rights lobbyists have urged the victim or accuser of a senior People’s National Party (PNP) official to come forward with an official complaint so they can probe scandalous allegations of paedophilia. The claims, published on social media,.....

Attorneys representing People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell are demanding an apology and a retraction from two women who have levelled criminal allegations against him.  A well-known PNP activist wrote...

Paul Copeland has done five COVID-19 tests in the last year as part of preparations to remove a hernia at the St Ann’s Bay Hospital, but he has been left disappointed by postponements at every appointment. The last time was two weeks ago when th...

WESTERN BUREAU: Officials at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) have been urged to overhaul oversight of vaccine storage controls in the wake of an audit mounted after an Oxford-AstraZeneca vial went missing a week ago. There was no evidence of......

The online portal to schedule appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine was bombarded with 128,000 hits on the first day, while more than 4,000 calls were fielded as Jamaicans sought to register for the jab. The portal was opened to the public at 10 a....

SMITHFIELD, Manchester: The granddaughter of Advira Wilson Palmer has been taken into custody in relation to the stabbing death of the 84-year-old that has jolted the quiet south Manchester community of Smithfield. Wilson Palmer was described as a....

As Jamaica prepares to go under lockdown for three consecutive weekends, the Government will be doling out $126 million to help the most vulnerable. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke announced in Parliament on Tuesday that each constituency will...

The Government has allocated $126 million to be disbursed to vulnerable Jamaicans amid the impending weekend lockdowns. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke announced in Parliament on Tuesday that each constituency will receive $2 million.  The...