WESTERN BUREAU: In 18 days, Camille Campbell lost two sisters, a brother, and her common-law husband. Four family members in the height of a pandemic is a mountain of sorrow for the 46-year-old former gas station attendant. Other cases like hers...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaicans applying for permanent residence in the United States must be vaccinated as part of the green card process. The new requirement released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) comes into effect October 1......

Almost 23 years after his life appeared to have been shattered by a gunman’s bullet, Kevin Robinson is opening a new chapter – literally. The 38-year-old released his book, True Pain: A R eal Life Story, on August 2 narrating a tale of triumph ...

Administrators of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, have sought to allay fears of deregistration raised by third-year medical science students after communication was sent on Monday outlining the need to pay outstanding fees. An email....

WESTERN BUREAU: Ginger, garlic, bird pepper. Washing money with bleach and water. That’s the sum total of the immunity or resistance summoned by many residents in Westmoreland, a parish haunted by a rash of coronavirus deaths but where vaccine......

Jamaica achieved a one-day record of 21,000 COVID-19 vaccinations on Tuesday, bolstering hope that the country could meet its target of 65 per cent herd immunity by March 2022. Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Leslie Meade has called......

Last Saturday, a family in Trelawny woke up to find their 15-year-old daughter missing. The usually reserved and well-behaved teenager who had an appointment to get vaccinated on Saturday went into hiding to avoid taking the jab. Her frantic...

WESTERN BUREAU: The American tourist who died from COVID-19 complications at the Cornwall Regional Hospital on Monday was reportedly three months pregnant and suffered from a comorbidity. Thirty-four-year-old Kaishundra Davis died 24 hours after......

The Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) is appealing to the health ministry to facilitate the vaccination of children 16 and older against COVID-19 without parental consent. Some 200,000 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines have been earmarked by......

WESTERN BUREAU: COVID-19 left a trail of death in its path in western Jamaica last weekend, taking with it a high-school teacher, two family-operated gas station proprietors, an auto parts worker, and a popular boutique owner. The diverse profiles....

WESTERN BUREAU: After refusing to be vaccinated, Westmoreland gas station operator Mike Urel Bacchas saw his wife, Marcia, pass away last Monday from COVID-19, and as he, too, was dying days later, he hoped to recover from the illness to take the......

One of Jamaica’s foremost authorities on environmental and nuclear sciences and decorated scientists, Professor Gerald Lalor, is being mourned after his passing Sunday night at the age of 90. Yesterday, RJRGLEANER Communications Group Chairman...

After sputtering to last place behind a trio of Jamaican sprinters in a hyped clash in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday, Sha’Carri Richardson has been offered a complimentary vacation to the island as an olive branch. Richardson engaged in a post-race....

Several residents of Bentley Lane off Maxfield Avenue in Kingston have packed their bags as a mini exodus spirals following the murder of two people, including a woman, on Sunday. The first of three no-movement days offered no deterrent as...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is conducting an investigation into an apparent localised marine kill along the shoreline of the Hellshire Fishing Village in St Catherine. Dead sea cucumbers, juvenile fish, crabs, and lobsters.....

The Jamaican Government is not considering administering coronavirus vaccines to children under 12 until there is cogent scientific advice approving their use, Minister of Education, Youth and Information Fayval Williams has confirmed. The Holness.....

The ravages of the coronavirus have taken the ultimate toll on one St Elizabeth family whose members are pondering if their relative would still be alive if he had been vaccinated. Andrew Burton, 45, was not an anti-vaxxer, but had reportedly not......

Work at the Jamalco alumina plant in Hayes, Clarendon, could be severely hampered over the next few days and managers may seek assistance from the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to power operations on the heels of a “massive loss” to the.....

Michael Dyke, the man charged with relay duties for Jamaica’s 4x100 metres women’s team at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, said he had no doubt that the islanders would have “destroyed” the world record in the ...

At least two local medical laboratories in Jamaica have the capacity to conduct genome sequencing to detect variants of the coronavirus and could significantly improve the Government’s ability to speedily obtain test results on different strains,....