WESTERN BUREAU: The Holness administration appeared to have bought time after a daylong sickout and gruelling late-night talks over a contracts dispute that threatened to make more than 140 junior doctors jobless. The healthcare system ground to a.....

American track and field officials are hoping to have star sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson available for the 4x100m at this month’s Olympic Games in Tokyo after she was slapped with a one-month suspension for testing positive for cannabis at the.....

A Manchester tiler who was among 11 persons injured in the deadly explosion at the Heaven’s FESCO service station in Mandeville, Manchester, in February 2020, is suing the operators and parent company Future Energy Source Company (FESCO) for...

A surge in call-centre and farm-work job submissions and COVID-19 crowd-control measures have slowed the processing of applications at the police Criminal Records Office, forcing hundreds of persons to wait days and weeks for quick-service delivery....

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has called for the Government to establish a special utility court to prosecute electricity thieves. Senior company officials have argued that no loss-reduction programme would be effective and sustainable......

Clarendon: Six-month contracts unconscionable, says physician Olivia Brown/Gleaner Writer Operations at hospitals in Clarendon were disrupted on Thursday as 26 medical doctors who were scheduled for duty called in sick. Eugena Clarke-James,......

Jamaicans have been warned to brace for wet weather this weekend as Tropical Storm Elsa is forecast to move across the Caribbean, threatening to produce up to six inches of rainfall, flash flooding, and mudslides. The National Hurricane Center...

A businessman who was found guilty of trafficking 100lb of ganja after he was chased by police and found with the drug in his car trunk seven years ago was today fined $343,000 in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. The 52-year-old convict,...

WESTERN BUREAU: Seventeen thousand students and 3,000 teachers have signed up for the national summer school programme amid a dispute over its value. Sixty-year-old vendor Hyacinth Miller believes that her nieces and nephews in Trelawny will...

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tuft on and his senior executives are now meeting with the representatives of the Jamaica Medical Doctors' Association to discuss today's sickout by junior doctors in the public health system....

At least 700,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses destined for Jamaica are likely to be dumped if Washington does not permit their export, potentially blunting the philanthropy of donors who have been moved to offer the life-saving shots to the island’s......

With 50 per cent of disconnected water supplies restored illegally, the National Water Commission (NWC) has become increasingly concerned about theft and its impact on revenues. Monthly, illegal connections amount to $3.5 billion to $4 billion in.....

Jamaica is fast becoming a prime dumping ground for counterfeit apparel and shoes manufactured in China and a key trans-shipment node to other markets in the Americas. That is the verdict of Albert Anderson, director of the Contraband Enforcement.....

The St Catherine North police have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Sunday’s mysterious death of seven-year-old Tianna Russell of New Works in Linstead, St Catherine. Detectives have taken into custody the girl’s 39-...

WESTERN BUREAU: Two men believed to be significant players in lottery scamming in western Jamaica were arrested and charged for breaches of the Law Reform Fraudulent Transaction Act in Industry Cove, Hanover, on Tuesday during an operation carried.....

More than 10,000 small businesses earning about 29 per cent of their revenues from cigarettes could see a significant fall-off in revenue if provisions in the draft tobacco law get the nod from Parliament, a major industry player has said. Carreras....

Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton said he will be assessing the findings of the investigation into allegations of mistreatment and neglect surrounding a newborn’s death at the Spanish Town Hospital to decide whether to make the...

One of the men accused of being involved in the murder of Simone Campbell-Collymore and a taxi operator in 2018 will be seeking bail when the matter is next mentioned on July 8 in the Home Circuit Court. The accused, Dwayne Pink, was slated to...

The annual scholarships provided by Carreras Limited to scores of Jamaicans may soon come to a halt if the Tobacco Control Act, 2020, is passed in its current form. Managing director of the company, Raoul Glynn, said that provisions in the proposed....

A father and his female companion have been taken into custody by the Linstead Police amid a multi-agency investigation into the sudden death of seven-year-old Tiana Russell of New Works district in Linstead, St Catherine. Tiana was pronounced dead....