There is more scrutiny on the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) over whether officials there had flagged problems with the JAMCOVID application months ago and well before last week’s shocking discovery that thousands of travellers’ person data ...

As pressure mounts on the Holness administration over Jamaica’s perceived slow pace in its vaccination drive, it has emerged that India had offered up to 50,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca to the Government before it had got the seal of approval.....

Jamaica Teachers’ Association President Jasford Gabriel has welcomed word from the Government that teachers will now be among the priority groups to be inoculated when Jamaica receives batches of the COVID-19 vaccines. That development could...

A Jamaican family is in mourning after 30-year-old Tashianna Johnson-Blake was reportedly shot dead by her military husband in front their two children in Colorado, United States, on the weekend. The police have arrested the suspect, Dermot Andrew.....

A very slim department of internal auditors in the Ministry of Education has been pinpointed as one of the major weaknesses in holding schools financially accountable as a probe deepens into suspected irregularities at Immaculate Conception High,......

Jamaicans with compromised immune systems are being urged to get medical clearance to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available, although experts feel it should be safe if their condition is not severe. There are concerns globally that......

WESTERN BUREAU: Newly elected Chief Richard Currie is rejecting the depiction of his Accompong Town enclave as a quasi-sovereign state, saying that it helps drive the misconception of who the Maroons are and what they represent. Pointing to the...

A man serving a life sentence for the 2013 shooting death of a four-year-old boy in a dispute over a broken pipe in Allman Town, Kingston, has had his appeal tossed last week despite maintaining that he was mistakenly identified as the shooter. The....

WESTERN BUREAU: The head of the St James Health Services has charged that despite the northwestern parish being the most prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, it is having a difficult time shaking residents from a culture of nonchalance even as virus....

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton goes to Cabinet this morning with a full-blown crisis on his hands as key hospitals in the coronavirus fight have either exceeded their COVID-19 bed space or are on the brink of turning away the sick. The St.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Seventy-two hours after defeating a colonel who spent 11 years at the helm, Chief Richard Currie of the Accompong Maroons says he wants to leverage the rich natural resources and technical capacity in the quasi-sovereign territory......

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has been hit hardest by electricity theft in communities located in Kingston, with the light and power provider reporting losses in the sum of US$61 million for the 12-month period ending December 2020 in...

From the $15,000 Shantal McDonald makes every two weeks as an office attendant, she purchases grocery, pays utility bills, and finances her daily commute, but the 28-year-old certified chef said she is still happy to have a job in the midst of a...

University officials are hoping that staff and students pursuing certain courses of study will be among those to receive COVID-19 vaccines in the second phase. Jamaica is expected to begin administering the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which was.....

A motorist narrowly escaped a fiery death on Sunday after his Toyota motor car burst into flames and exploded along the Long Hill main road in St James on Sunday afternoon. The hourlong fire, which consumed the motor car, resulted in a major...

Greta Bogues, 62, a stalwart in corporate governance, is dead. Members of the combined private-sector bodies are struggling to come to grips with the sudden passing on Sunday of a woman described as a servant to Jamaica and a “treasure”. Officia...

A nefarious letter demanding bounty or blood from construction site operators in St Thomas has been turned over to the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Unit (C-TOC) for deeper analysis, but for many residents of the sleepy Trinityville...

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is pushing back against criticism, particularly from the Opposition, as Jamaica is yet to get out of the blocks in the race against time to vaccinate its population against the deadly coronavirus pandemic. With....

There are mixed views on an extortion letter issued at a worksite in Trinityville, St Thomas, two weeks ago that temporarily halted construction on a section of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project and has left St Thomas Western Member.....

She was determined to ride whatever water source that would sweep her into George William Gordon House as a member of parliament. Her life’s experiences prepared her for a tsunami, but September 3, 2020 turned out to be a high tide, and she landed...