The absence of portable toilets has impacted COVID-19 vaccinations at the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester.  Persons who visited the vaccination site this morning were told that no vaccines would be administered as a result of the...

The decision by a budding lawyer to drop out of university and join a religious movement has left her parents in a state if bewilderment. Deneel Grey, 22, having recently earned her bachelor's degree in law, was two years away from becoming a......

Cultural artiste Chuck Fenda is 'bunning out' all gunmen in his single, Gun Johncrow, and he is sending an appeal to those artistes who continue to do gun lyrics to cease and desist because it is "mashing up the head of the youths". The...

It was close to noon yesterday and three teenage boys, with hardcover books in hand, filed into Tandeka McKoy-Phipps' yard in Delacree Lane in St Andrew. The boys had turned up for their daily two-hour lessons. McKoy-Phipps had her hands full as....

Gleeful shouts of 'Aunty Nicky' greeted Nicole Williams as she placed a few masks on some of her students. Since last year, Williams, who has level-one and level-two certification in early-childhood education, has been using her yard to teach......

After successfully collaborating on numerous projects, recording artistes Cyco Flamz and Simple Cool Voice have once again teamed up to release the single Bad Energy. It was self-produced on Cyco Flamz's Crazy Fyah Record label as a part of his.....

Jamaica Defence Force member Hopeton Chambers, 25, and his brother Anthony Chambers, were denied bail when they appeared in the Manchester Parish Court yesterday. The two are facing charges of wounding with intent and illegal possession of...

A Kingston man who stole a music mixer to buy animals was yesterday remanded for sentencing when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Andre Buchanan pleaded guilty to simple larceny before Senior Parish Judge Lori-Ann Cole-...

Piano tuning could be joining the list of dying arts, but for one eccentric music lover, Alfred Wellington, being a piano technician has been a passion he has been fulfilling for more than five decades. Wellington left his small farming...

Despite being the birthplace of National Hero Sir Alexander Bustamante, the small farming community of Blenheim in Hanover continues to suffer from poor infrastructure. Residents say that they have been forced to live without running water and......

A 16-year-old boy died from injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle collision while riding his bicycle along Higgin Town Road in St. Ann on Wednesday, October 13.  He has been identified as Zidane Thomas of Higgin Town in...

Detectives in St. Elizabeth have charged an accused church robber after he was found with church property at his home.  Charged with sacrilege and unlawful possession of property is 45-year-old Richard Gazader, of Church Road in Bog Walk...

U.S. health advisers said Thursday that some Americans who received Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine should get a half-dose booster to bolster protection against the virus. The panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously...

Jamaica is among four Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) member countries slated to benefit from 1.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, recently donated by the United States, Canada, Germany and Spain. PAHO Director, Dr. Carissa...

Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa Etienne, on Wednesday said that six Caribbean countries, including Jamaica, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Haiti, have yet to vaccinate 20 per cent of their...

BEIJING (AP) — China is preparing to send three astronauts to live on its space station for six months — a new milestone for a program that has advanced rapidly in recent years.  It will be China’s longest crewed space...

U.S. health advisers are debating if millions of Americans who received Moderna vaccinations should get a booster shot -- this time, using half the original dose. Already millions who got their initial Pfizer shots at least six months ago are...

The National COVID-19 Vaccination Operationalisation Task Force has presented its preliminary findings and recommendations to Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, and Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. Christopher Tufton. The task force, which...

Jamaica on Wednesday recorded 215 new COVID-19 cases from 1,379 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 86,722 with 29,175 being active. The country's positivity rate is currently 18.1%. Of the new...

Diane Jobson, the lawyer who represented reputed gangster Christopher ‘Dog Paw’ Linton from he was a teenager, said she found him to be charismatic and a natural-born leader. She said that it is “a pity that the society didn’t make good use...