As the Government ramps up its efforts to secure COVID-19 vaccines amid a tight market as developed countries hoard jabs, National Health Fund (NHF) Chairman Howard Mitchell has disclosed that one supplier has expressed that it can allocate two...

Damownie Johnson, the 24-year-old son of the late Woman Sgt Tameicha Powell of the Clarendon Division, is ruing a missed chance to tell her he loved her for a final time as the cop passed away while being transported to hospital for emergency...

“What have they done with my sample?” That’s the question bugging mental health nurse Angela James after an apparent bungling in the testing chain at the University Hospital of the West Indies resulted in her not getting her COVID-19 result an...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Jamaicans who literally earn their bread daily have been finding it difficult to adhere to COVID-19 protocols and remain isolated whether confirmed or suspected to have contracted the virus, saying they have to sustain...

A flood of senior citizens who turned up for COVID-19 jabs without appointments at The Good Samaritan Inn in Kingston yesterday created a logistical headache for administrators seeking to vaccinate private healthcare workers. Admitting that they...

As the Government earmarks the single-largest spend in any one fiscal year on infrastructure projects, Jamaica’s single anti-corruption body says it will utilise a special mechanism in the Integrity Commission Act to table in Parliament an interim...

A health inspector assigned to the Greater Portmore Health Centre has expressed concern that despite a colleague working in the same office testing positive for COVID-19, other members of staff who were potentially exposed were instructed to report....

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says despite the rise in COVID hospitalisations and deaths, Jamaica is still doing "fairly well". According to Tufton, Jamaica’s death rate is now 1.6 per cent of total infections. That is below...

“Him never come home last night and him will never come home forever.” That was Iona Caine’s cry on Sunday as her eldest son, who was enlisted in the Jamaica Defence Force, died tragically at sea, plunging his family into mourning. Otis Dunca...

Misinformation and anxiety among the elderly have been blamed for a wave of Jamaicans turning up at hospitals without an appointment and disrupting COVID-19 vaccination schedules. Opportunists have also been cited for piggybacking on qualified...

Hours after indicating it was softening its stance on an absolute ban on burials, the Holness administration has received flak for reinstituting interments under ultra-restrictive rules. The new order, aimed at curbing the risk of coronavirus...

The Jamaican Government has tossed the strategy of imposing quarantines on COVID-19 hotspots as redundant and useless as the sixth week of an unprecedented wave of infections sweeps the country. That is the diagnosis of Health and Wellness Minister....

Britney Francis has been on the edge since last December, when her world turned upside down after she was informed that her three-year-old daughter has Stage-Four neuroblastoma, a rare type of childhood cancer. The devastated 21-year-old mother......

There is a renewed call to crack down on the use of absorption pits in the community of Roaring River amid the threat that Westmoreland’s largest source of potable water could become contaminated. Steve Morris, the parish’s chief health inspecto...

Grange: Monument to ‘Aunt V’ ready by September A life-size bust will be erected in the Trelawny district of Duanvale to honour the memory of Violet Moss-Brown, the one-time oldest living person in the world who passed away on September 15, 2...

Twenty at-risk youths from Rose Town, Kingston, will be given a second chance at becoming “confident and independent” Jamaicans when they commence training in a construction internship programme, come April. The programme, which was launched la...

Two recovered COVID-19 patients have painted a terrifying picture of the operations at the Montego Bay-based Cornwall Regional Hospital as it comes under pressure as virus cases spike, a situation Western Regional Health Authority head Errol Greene....

As the nation continues to wait for Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton to take the COVID-19 vaccine, more troubling developments are emerging that powerful interests and their relatives are being given jabs with....

After almost two decades of remaining vacant, the death house in Braeton, St Catherine, where seven men were controversially killed in a police operation exactly 20 years ago, now has its first occupant. Rudolph Lewis, a Rastafarian returning...

The state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) loses approximately $1 million every year because of theft or fraud involving employees, even as it has gobbled up almost $40 billion in taxpayer-funded bailouts since 2010. But even amid...