Pushing aggressively for herd immunity in Jamaica within the new fiscal year, the Holness administration announced on Tuesday a $60-billion allocation aimed at purchasing COVID-19 vaccines and dedicated to social and economic recovery under an...

Fear of the coronavirus has convinced Maureen Haslam to take the coronavirus jab the first chance she gets. But the 35-year-old Spanish Town resident still has lots of unanswered questions about the vaccine. Waiting...

Seven months after a coronavirus quarantine was imposed on Sandy Bay, residents of the southeast Clarendon community say they are still haunted by memories of the stigma. That has been one of the grim undercurrents of COVID-19, the disease that was....

WESTERN BUREAU: While applauding a successful first day of operations at the newly opened field hospital in Falmouth, Trelawny, Errol Greene, the regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), is appealing for greater compliance....

The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) is in support of a resolution to limit the time frame on requests for past statutory declarations. The resolution was passed by the St Mary Municipal Corporation at its recent sitting of the.....

A member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and his ex-colleague who were both accused of the fatal shooting of a teenager during a police operation in Kingston nine years ago were on Monday freed of murder when they appeared in the Gun Court....

Another former top executive at Jamaica’s state-owned oil refinery Petrojam is expected to be slapped with fraud-related charges early next week, senior law enforcement sources have disclosed. The former executive voluntarily returned to the isla...

Despite launching a broadside at those who have flagrantly flouted safety rules amid a surge of COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has held back from imposing further restrictions amid a lingering lockdown debate. Thirteen of 22...

The highly contagious United Kingdom variant of the coronavirus called B.1.1.7 has been confirmed to be spreading in Jamaica. The development was announced by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton at a press briefing Monday evening.......

From a sidewalk with head in hands on Monday, Marcia Hall sat staring at smoke rising from the debris as she pondered how to regain $30,000 in tuition fees she had saved for her daughter, Alitia ‘Hope’ Williams. There was no time to think where...

The University of the West Indies, Mona campus, has suspended face-to-face clinical rotations for three weeks effective March 9. Third-year medical students had just started the clinical portion of their studies in January but are now being forced....

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the New Town district in Hanover were jolted on Monday by the shock discovery of a beheaded pastor. The minister of religion has been identified as 40-year-old Kenniffe Andre Reid, who is originally from Lucea, Hanover.....

The recent sharp rises in the price of fuel appeared genuinely outside of the control of the state-owned oil refinery, said Richard Pandohie, president of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA). At the same time, Petrojam...

Peta-Gay Milne, a blind woman, was abused for four years by someone who also had a disability. She was among a four-member panel of women who shared their experiences with gender-based violence during a Women’s Day symposium themed ‘Unmasking......

Attorney Richard Small asked the Court of Appeal on Monday to throw out Ruel Reid and Fritz Pinnock’s application for leave to go to the Privy Council and to put an end to their abuse of the court process. Reid, a former education minister...

The Government is contemplating providing financial grants to stakeholders in the funeral industry as the two-week ban on burials commenced on Monday. Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenize did not say how much money...

With anxiety heightening as Jamaica’s coronavirus infections skyrocketed Saturday to a record toll of 723 cases, private-sector leaders are resisting calls for a national lockdown. That appeal grew louder on Sunday as the nation grappled with mor...

WESTERN BUREAU: When the soles fell off Ruby Robinson’s school shoes, she used wire to hold them together. And when it rained, she walked miles barefooted. Born in Brown’s Town, St Ann, the 55-year-old account director with Google, who has apla...

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has revealed that test results of random COVID samples from patients with no travel history have confirmed that the UK variant is in Jamaica. The samples were taken from the parishes of St Catherine, St Jame...

Kingston vendor Annie Ivey is just two years short of being 80 and has been working her entire life in different low-paying jobs but has never had a pension plan. She has no clue when she will retire. “Anytime mi cyah go nuh more. Mi nuh sick yah...