WESTERN BUREAU: Patients are now forced to sit out their stay in the corridors at Cornwall Regional Hospital receiving oxygen – stark imagery of the scale of Jamaica’s coronavirus crisis which is choking public healthcare facilities. “We are i...

Tamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer Standing tall above young coders from 70 other countries, an 11-year-old innovator from Jamaica has copped the top prize in the international XPRIZE Code Games Challenge. One of 17 winners from across the world,...

WESTERN BUREAU: A new prison expected to replace the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre is to be constructed in St Catherine at an estimated cost of J$10 billion. The project will be executed by the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ), which has.....

The smuggling of firearms, long considered the lifeblood of marauding criminal gangs, as well as the making of home-made guns and ammunition, is to become a criminal offence under Jamaican law. The proposed new offences will be included in the...

The Jamaican Government has declined to confirm whether it had rejected a proposal for the JAMCOVID website to be managed by eGov, the state information systems agency. According to Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of...

WESTERN BUREAU: Parish authorities have expanded their blacklist on backyard burials to Norman Manley Boulevard in Negril, citing health and environmental concerns. The thoroughfare runs alongside Negril’s famous seven-mile white-sand beach. “....

Opposition Leader Mark Golding is demanding that Prime Minister Andrew Holness lay bare the contract it used to engage Amber Group to build out the JAMCOVID-19 application which is under increased scrutiny. Following reports that an alleged second....

WESTERN BUREAU: A 17-year-old student of Rhodes Hall High School in Hanover was shot dead and his older brother seriously injured when armed men kicked in the door to their two-room board house and opened fire in a predawn attack on Tuesday. The...

No more SOEs until appeal is heard - Chang Unless there is an overwhelming upsurge in violent crime, the Jamaican Government will not seek another state of emergency (SOE) until its appeal is heard. The revelation was made by Minister of...

A second person has been detained in relation to the deadly overnight attacks on homeless people in the Corporate Area last month. Three homeless men were chopped to death in downtown Kingston and a fourth killed in southern St Andrew. Two other...

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.....