The $422-million budget approved for the communication campaign to bolster buy-in of the coronavirus vaccine could be crucial to a Jamaica Moves-scale crusade in marketing the life-saving jab. Jamaicans will not know until early next week which...

Jovan Johnson/Senior Staff Reporter Colette Roberts Risden, the embattled permanent secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS), has asserted that she will not be going anywhere as lawmakers push for accountability over the...

A culture of victimisation has been reportedly cultivated at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre, with officers charged with the supervision of minors subjecting them to human-rights abuse for trifling misdemeanours. The post-mortem from a......

A time-use study undertaken in the 2018 Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions (JSLC) has revealed that Jamaican women carry a greater burden of unpaid domestic and care work in the home. Women spend an estimated 294 minutes – or about five hours �...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard startling allegations that well-known Portland businessman Everton McDonald had expressed regret after the murder of his first wife and wished he could bring her back and retrieve the money he had allegedly paid....

The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) is piling pressure on the Government and the Opposition to fast-track the passage of the Enhanced Security Measures Act amid renewed anxiety about violent crime, particularly murder. In a landmark......

WESTERN BUREAU: Three books, seven CDs, remarkable work as an international motivational speaker, even inspiring hundreds of Jamaican children to perform her work at Festival annually, Joan Andrea Hutchinson remains the ‘Bumpy Head Gyal’. A quar...

Rojette Williams was just 11 years old when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Had it not been for early screening, it might have gone undiagnosed for longer. Now a medical doctor, the 37-year-old cancer survivor is happy to be......

An international health expert has cautioned Jamaica against vaccinating already frail senior citizens following Tuesday’s disclosure by Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton that front-line workers and the elderly will be among the first estimate...

A rare occasion when government members of a parliamentary oversight committee coalesced in bowling tough questions at a senior civil servant is allegedly part of a “plot” to help Labour and Social Security Minister Karl Samuda shake his permane...

The mother of a 13-year-old girl who was drugged and raped after being abducted during an early-morning jog has expressed relief that her daughter survived the harrowing experience. The child is believed to be one of several victims of sexual...

A 24-year-old policeman with a passion for art is convinced that brushstrokes and not batons and firearms could be the weapon to curb crime and inspire inner peace in maladjusted youth. That’s the view of Malcolm Lindsay, a cop in the Jamaica...

Deputy Prime Minister Dr Horace Chang’s comment on Tuesday that the democratically elected Holness administration “cannot be vetoed in carrying out executive action in the face of crisis” triggered a warning from the parliamentary Opposition t...

The promotion of screening will be a major priority for health officials for World Cancer Day on February 4, but services like mammograms are still not available in the public sector and the cost at private facilities remains prohibitive for low-......

Avatar Muschette lacks basic necessities such as running water and indoor bathroom facilities, but has remained steadfast in his pursuit of academic excellence, hoping one day to make life more enjoyable for him and his mother. The 12-year-old,...

WESTERN BUREAU: Spurred by concerns arising from the coronavirus pandemic, travellers criss-crossing the global might require a digital health passport to enter foreign ports, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has forecast. “I think the world is......

Adverse weather and inferior plant strains have been cited for an islandwide ganja shortage that could threaten Jamaica’s emerging medicinal marijuana industry. The illegal marijuana trade has also been impacted by the developments, sparking a...

Jamaica is expected to begin administering the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in February, two months ahead of the scheduled April roll-out announced late last year. The development was revealed late Monday evening by Health and Wellness Minister.....

Western Bureau: The gunman believed to have unleashed a deadly assault on banker Andrea Lowe-Garwood as she worshipped in a live-streamed church service in Falmouth, Trelawny, on Sunday is suspected to have been active in a number of homicides...

Andrea Lowe-Garwood’s family believes that her strong faith in God insulated her from any fears she had of dying. The 51-year-old banker, who was killed during a live broadcast of the Agape Christian Fellowship church service in Trelawny on Sunday...