When major sign manufacturer Caledonia Outdoor Advertising made an about-turn in April on a termination threat to employees who refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the reversal was hailed as a victory for the workforce and a feather in the.....

A patient transfer from Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) to Bellevue Hospital is believed to have triggered a second outbreak of COVID-19 at the state-run mental-health facility, where one person has so far died and 35, including registered nurses,......

WESTERN BUREAU: News of the passing of the well-known Constable Damion Knight from complications associated with COVID-19 has shattered the mood among colleagues at the police post at the Sangster International Airport, as some did not even realise....

Inspectors contracted by the National Education Inspectorate (NEI) are bemoaning delayed compensation, a situation that has left them unwilling to re-engage with the quality-assurance watchdog. The NEI’s mandate is to assess the standards attaine...

When Glenroy Brown took his 75-year-old mother, Anita Brown, to be vaccinated against COVID-19 last Friday, he believed he had given her insurance against severe illness and death and had already started making arrangements for her to get the...

The stillness of the night air on Olympic Way is a time warp for Kervin Rose, whose jerk pan was once a crackling cauldron of flavour, wooing palates from near and far. But nightlife on a road that traditionally hummed with activity has been halted....

WESTERN BUREAU: A 43-year-old Hanover man has been arrested following an allegation by his 19-year-old daughter that he sexually molested her on separate occasions over the past four months. According to reports from the Lucea police, the accused.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Tanique Bailey-Small, the acting medical officer of health for St James, has estimated that less than a third of secondary school students targeted to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 jab in St James have received their first dose of.....

As Jamaica prepares to enter what is traditionally one of the busiest and most destructive phases of the Atlantic hurricane season, the Holness administration is grappling with a new preliminary flood damage bill from Tropical Storm Ida eclipsing.....

At least two Clarendon principals are lamenting a decline in registration of new students for the new academic year that officially starts today. Nadine Gayle-Little, principal of Beulah All-Age School, said that the institution usually has an...

Communities like Rose Town have been diagnosed as incubators for war-ready children in Kingston Western – one of the most blighted and violence-torn police divisions in Jamaica. Several streets in the community are littered with barricades – sta...

WESTERN BUREAU: Soldiers form a circle around their community. Crime has rocked its core. But twins Stanea and Stania McIntosh refuse to allow their Norwood, Paradise, address to define their future. The 19-year-old Montego Bay High alumni, whose......

Fire victims of Oxford Street are urging Kingston Western Member of Parliament Desmond McKenzie to follow through on commitments they said he made in the wake of a midsummer tragedy. The residents, whose homes were consumed in an inferno around 4 p....

The police have been instructed by Commissioner Antony Anderson to waive the seizure of motor vehicles, except in traffic crash and criminal investigations, and to focus their energies on cracking down on the upsurge in violence. Anderson’s missiv...

At the end of 2020, the Ministry of Health had recorded 18 COVID-19 deaths from 612 cases in Manchester. Before the end of January 2021, the central Jamaica parish became a worry for health officials, who said that 43 out of every 100,000 residents....

If the tidal wave of COVID-19 cases and deaths being reported on the nightly news in the last few weeks does not scare you, then the emotional, financial and physical costs associated with treating the virus just may. Add to that the recent...

Expenditure pressures brought on by the rise in the intensity of the COVID-19 pandemic is a chief consideration for the Government as it now formulates the first 2021-22 supplementary estimates through which it will seek to address critical needs......

As the country embarks on the new academic year primarily continuing the online modality, local educators have given the Ministry of Education’s recent summer school programme – aimed at bridging the learning loss for students who did not acces...

The number of deaths being blamed on last weekend’s shortage of oxygen in some public hospitals has risen to eight, including a pregnant woman, a Gleaner investigation has found, as pressure mounts on the Holness administration for an independent...

Four people were killed and seven others wounded by gunfire over the first three-day lockdown imposed by the Government last month to arrest a deadly third wave of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Amid spiralling...