The five employees of pharmaceutical giant Cari-Med, who yesterday suffered a major blow in their bid to challenge the company’s vaccination policy after the Supreme Court threw out the constitutional aspect of the legal challenge, have signalled....

“There is no question that Jamaica has to become a republic.” That definitive declaration was made by Prime Minister Andrew yesterday, while delivering the keynote address during the official opening ceremony at Christel House Jamaica in Twicken...

Opposition Senator Damion Crawford is recommending that secondary schools concentrate primarily on five subjects as students return to the classrooms during the pandemic with the need to observe social-distancing guidelines. He said that if...

One of the leaders of a protest staged yesterday across from the United States (US) Embassy in Liguanea, St Andrew, objecting to what is said was that country’s meddling in the current Ethiopian conflict, has declared that he would have no...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Public Defender Arlene Harrison-Henry is urging Jamaicans to become more aware of their rights and responsibilities, noting that the two go hand in hand. Speaking yesterday – which was observed as International Human Rights...

Pencils4Kids founder and CEO Randy Griffiths believes that in order for education to be adaptable and inspire children, it must start with the learning environment and early on in each child’s development. Griffiths is an alumnus of the Quickstep...

Justice Vinette Graham Allen on Thursday denied a request for a closer mention date to afford a murder accused an opportunity to attend his mother’s funeral. Defence attorney Ernest Davis had made the plea on behalf of Oscar Barnes, who is jointly...

One of the wards of the state who absconded from the Metcalfe Street Secure Juvenile Remand Centre on Monday is back in custody and a second is expected to be returned to the facility based on dialogue with his family. This was disclosed in the...

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie says that the island’s efforts to boost vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) have been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Government has been offering the....

Jamalco has taken “serious issue” with a Sunday Gleaner report quoting a CCA Capital Partners financial review of its operations, which shows that nearly US$100 million, or more than J$13 billion, in payments made by Clarendon Alumina Production...

One of the main witnesses in the Clansman-One Don Gang had reportedly told the police when he was arrested that he would have been killed if he had refused to comply with the One Don Gang’s order. An investigator in the gang case testified...

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie says there has already been a run on hospitals islandwide with crime and crash victims, mere days into the holiday period. “Right now, we are seeing those increasing numbers already,” t...

Coronavirus infections are expected to again envelop the country in a matter of weeks, putting seniors 60 years and over most at risk, but Jamaica’s Chief Medical Officer, (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, has cautioned against hitting the...

As Jamaica remains on alert for a fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic as the Omicron variant makes its trek across the globe, IGL Blue Limited Chairman Bevon Francis has indicated that there are sufficient quantities of medical-grade oxygen...

Despite the low take-up of COVID-19 vaccines across the island, the health ministry has indicated that it will not be ceding the battle to anti-vaxxers as it pushes towards its target of inoculating 65 per cent of the population by next March. More....

Twenty-eight-year-old Shuwayne Miller of Arnett Gardens in St Andrew has one wish for Christmas: to become employed on a full-time basis. Despite trying several avenues to land a full-time job, including pursuing an engineering programme at the...

Plunging take-up of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has forced Jamaica’s health ministry to scale back procurement of the flagship brand and to fast-track negotiations for the swapping out of more than a million doses of one-shot Johnson and...

Gangster-turned-lay evangelist John Martin watched more than 50 times a video of heavily armed attackers who drove into the Tower Hill, St Andrew, community and murdered his son at a cookout last Saturday. Robert Martin, otherwise known as ‘......

The statutory declaration of Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness appears to be hanging in the balance, as little more than a year has passed and the Integrity Commission, the country’s single anti-corruption body, is yet to publish in the.....

Jamaica’s chief prosecutor will rule next week on the fate of the cop accused of forcibly cutting the hair of a Rastafarian teenager while she was in custody at the Four Paths Police Station in Clarendon. The case - which dates back to July 22 and...