WESTERN BUREAU: A cluster of COVID-19 cases numbering close to 50 within the last two weeks – the majority discovered in recent days – at the Hedonism II resort in Negril has triggered a wave of concern as health authorities seek to contain what...

Twenty-six-year-old Rejeen Morrison was admitted in hospital on March 11 for diabetic ketoacidosis, a complication associated with lupus. Morrison has several comorbidities, including trigeminal neuralgia, idiopathic autoimmune hepatitis,...

Jamaica-born nurse Dr Sandra Lindsay is urging the Government to determine the main reasons Jamaicans are hesitant about taking the COVID-19 vaccine in order to provide practical solutions and boost take-up amid rising infection numbers in the...

President of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) Lloyd Distant has indicated that if a decision has been made to prosecute parliamentarians who have breached the Integrity Commission Act and this was akin to a charge and arrest being made, the...

WESTERN BUREAU: St James yesterday passed the grim mark of 100 homicides since the start of the year, when a man said to be a top-tier member of the notorious Granville-based ‘Big Yard’ Gang was shot and killed gangland-style in the parking lot ...

President of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) John Mahfood is bemoaning the “disastrous effect” crime is having on the society and economy. A surge in violent crimes this year has pushed the murder rate up by eight per....

Residents of Ten Miles in Bull Bay, which borders two constituencies – East Rural St Andrew and Western St Thomas – say they feel slighted after years of neglect by their political representatives and the Caribbean Cement Company with the lack o...

Less than seven weeks after the initial opening up of the entertainment sector, the Government has pulled the plug as the island is experiencing a third wave of COVID-19 with high levels of hospitalisations, climbing infection rates and mounting...

Although relieved that the man accused of raping her 12-year-old daughter at gunpoint on Mother’s Day has met his demise, a St Catherine mother is harbouring fears that with the pre-teen exhibiting signs of pregnancy and battling a sexually...

ST THOMAS: Olympic gold medallist Hansle Parchment is encouraging the undiluted support of all athletes, regardless of how one may have performed. The shine of his medal dimmed in comparison to the intensity of the love the 31-year-old champion......

Grassroots Windrush organisations in the United Kingdom (UK) have renewed calls for a cessation or moratorium on deportation flights until the Windrush Scandal is fully addressed. At least 30 Jamaicans have been issued deportation orders for a...

WESTERN BUREAU: As the island grapples with a surge in COVID-19 cases, readjustments are being done for shift assignments and monitoring of oxygen usage at medical facilities in under the umbrella of the the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA.....

DOWNS, Manchester: They were just about seven minutes from home on their way back from a drive to Ocho Rios in St Ann, but they never made it. Thirty-three-year-old Rassie Tafari Phillips as well as 36-year-old Sanjay Caine and his 14-year-old...

Chairman Edmund Bartlett says lawmakers who sit on the Integrity Commission Oversight Committee (ICOC) will be called from their summer break to examine a backlog of annual reports tabled by the anti-corruption body. Bartlett told The Gleaner last.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Financial controller Conroy Barrett, one of the two employees of the Negril-based Rick’s Cafe Sports Bar who were charged in relation to the Mocha Fest event, which was staged at the location in contravention of the Disaster Risk.....

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) yesterday minted Jamaica’s first batch of central bank digital currency (CBDC). A total of J$230 million in CBDC will be issued to deposit-taking institutions and authorised payment service providers during the CBDC pilo...

Eight-year-old Xavier ‘Bojo’ Phillips had plans to call his father yesterday, but that is a call his father will never get as an early morning attack by gunmen left the child dead. Little Xavier was shot and killed in the Howells Content area of...

Four board members of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) were dumped in July, weeks after a meeting they insisted on to get the position of president advertised and a forensic audit done of more than $300 million worth of...

As the Government prepares for the possibility of the full resumption of face-to-face education in September, public-health experts and educators are expressing concern about the health and safety of students, the majority of whom commute via...

As COVID-19 cases continue to climb across the island, plunging the country into a third wave of the virus, the Ministry of Health is reporting that all large hospitals are now over their capacity for admissions. According to Permanent Secretary in....