The hopes of 82,000 Jamaicans who received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine and are due a second in three weeks hinge on a shipment from the United States (US) that may not arrive on time, as the Ministry of Health...

Declaring that the internal processes at the Ministry of Health...

As several probes continue into the deaths of three cesspool workers who inhaled noxious fumes at Moneague College on September 6, there is growing evidence of a culture of non-compliance with safety protocols among workers and bosses at Central...

Michael Shaw knows that cesspool crews flirt with danger and death every time they descend the ladder into the deep and dark belly of septic tanks. And as he reflected on last week’s tragic deaths of three cesspool labourers, presumably from...

The absence of regulatory standards governing the haulage of sewage from septic tanks and pits has cast the cesspool industry as chaotic, with many workers having no equipment to protect themselves and little training to safely engage dangerous...

Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) customers can expect to see an increase in their October electricity bills as a result of an average 1.4 per cent rate increase approved by the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR). The OUR made the...

Every time Taariq Abdul-Majeed enters an airport, he is seized with dread that his name will boom from a loudspeaker or that he will beckoned by the daunting index finger of a security official to step out of the line. It’s happened in Dubai. In.....

Jamaica is close to recording 1,000 murders since the start of the year with a little over three months still remaining, new police figures have revealed. The police report that 991 people were killed – 843 by gun – between January 1 and last......

Last week Monday when firemen from the Ocho Rios Fire Station responded to an emergency in Moneague, they grappled with the deaths of two men from noxious fumes from a septic tank. Another died the following morning. A week later, the same station....

Passage of a resolution for the entire membership of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) to vote in internal elections could mark a tectonic shift in political party governance and potentially diminish the influence of bribery and...

Despite calls by fuming critics for the board of Merl Grove High School to be sacked for suspending principal Dr Marjorie Fullerton, the executive director of the National Council on Education has warned that such action requires a high threshold......

Eighteen months after the COVID-19 pandemic threw the education sector into disarray after the first case of the coronavirus was confirmed on the island, some parents are concerned that their children remain at a disadvantage as their inability to.....

Three weeks ago when the first shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Jamaica, 11-year-old Coniesea McFarlane was excited. Having wrapped up her primary school journey, she was anxious to get inoculated against the coronavirus, hoping that....

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay-based medical cannabis dispensary Outlier has joined the effort to get Jamaicans vaccinated against COVID-19 with the novel ‘Weed for Vaccine’ campaign, which it hopes will push smokers to line up for the jab. But one...

It was another day of disappointment for small traders in Ocho Rios, St Ann, as they failed to land a single sale despite making preparations to cash in on yesterday’s Carnival Sunrise cruise call. On its third visit to the island in a month, none...

Members of the United Church have been left in shock following the passing of the Reverend Norman Francis, lecturer and warden at the United Theological College of the West Indies. The adjunct lecturer at the International University of the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Waterlogged soil has caused a further delay in the construction of the 36-bed field hospital on the grounds of the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland. The field hospital, which should have started more than a month ago, only...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is searching for a new leader of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) after Chief Executive Officer Peter Thompson was reportedly issued with an ultimatum to resign, be fired, or accept a...

The bloodstained floor and mattresses bore the gruesome reminder of gun violence that claimed the lives of the parents of an eight-year-old boy and two others in southwestern Clarendon on Sunday. The child’s father, 25-year-old Michael Solomon; hi...

WESTERN BUREAU: Not even the death of two close relatives and the hospitalisation of his spouse, owing to the COVID-19 virus, has convinced a hesitant Seventh-day Adventist pastor in Montego Bay, St James, to embrace vaccination. The revelation...