Despite calls from the World Obesity Federation for severely overweight people to be among priority groups for the COVID-19 vaccine, the Holness administration has disclosed that front-line healthcare workers will be first in line to get the jab,......

Stung by a reprimand about her judgement after a six-month vote-buying probe, legislator Dr Michelle Charles has rejected recommendations that she apologise for the perceived blunder. Charles, the St Thomas Eastern member of parliament, was scolded....

Residents of Gordon Town in St Andrew are concerned that further deterioration could occur along the badly damaged main road even before the planned $195-million effort to repair a major breakaway has been completed. Expressing doubts that the...

Jamaica may be left behind because it has failed to seize the opportunities of the emerging medical marijuana industry, Anthony Hylton has said. The opposition spokesman on industry, competitiveness, and global logistics has described the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Debbie Baker thought the COVID-19 pandemic would last just a few months and she could live off her savings, but within 90 days of the devastating virus landing on local shores, reality struck. The former Spanish-speaking tour guide.....

An air of mystery surrounds the death of a man in the Sydenham area of Spanish Town, St Catherine, yesterday. The deceased, 33-year-old labourer Kenrick Genas, of a Sydenham address, was reportedly shot about minutes after midnight. According to...

While efforts to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, including a focus on securing vaccines, have overshadowed the local fight against the human papillomavirus (HPV), gynaecological oncologist Dr Ian Bambury believes that the waning interest in shots to.....

The age-old proposal of using unclaimed balances in financial institutions to fund micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) has failed to gain policy support – at least, up until now. The issue came up for discussion again on Thursday during a....

Lisa Hall, wife of former deputy premier of Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) Floyd Hall, has been freed. Mrs Hall was among nine defendants, including former Premier Michael Misick, involved in a high-profile corruption trial in the islands, Having......

WESTERN BUREAU: A day after one of its security officers was killed in a foiled robbery in St Elizabeth, Guardsman Group has committed to outfit its 300-strong armoured fleet guards with bulletproof vests. The value of that spend will be in the...

Stubborn resistance by mourners to the coronavirus law has forced some churches to refuse to officiate funerals, causing clergymen to even summon the police to defuse clashes that threaten to get physical. Religious leaders are being pressured,......

Narda McKoy covered her face with a picture of Jalisa McGowan to hide the tears streaming down after reading a note scribbled by Jalisa’s little sister, Karlisa McKoy, following her passing last Friday. Karlisa, a seven-year-old, wrote: “I love ...

Despite the apparent tragedy in which a fishing trip ended on Sunday night as residents ripped open the stomach of a shark captured in Old Harbour Bay in St Catherine, 27-year old Shenel Smith is hanging on to a thread of hope that she will see her...

WESTERN BUREAU:- A former medical doctor who was once employed to the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay is now dead, and his alleged gay lover, a former INDECOM investigator, in police custody in Toronto following a stabbing incident.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Two of the three men charged in connection with the contract killing of Tamara Geddes pleaded guilty in the Trelawny Circuit Court on Wednesday, joining the deceased’s sister and her two nieces as persons implicated in the...

As the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) ramp up their vaccination programmes, Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has said that the local tourism sector could benefit from those developments. The US and UK are key source markets.....

WESTERN BUREAU: With a noticeable indifference towards mask-wearing to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the Second City, the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) and the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) kicked....

Vaccine delay Jamaica's first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines has been pushed back till Monday, March 8 - a few days later than the March 4 arrival date that was previously announced. The delay was reportedly linked to logistical and scheduling...

The mother of a three week and five days old baby, who has been hospitalised for just under two weeks, is lamenting the poor communication and lack of urgency in carrying out medical tests on her young child. Natasha Williams’ son was born on...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaican public hospitals are not to turn away any patient suffering from the life-threatening disorder asthma, even if they have concerns with heightened anxiety over coronavirus infection. The order comes in the wake of the death....