The Jamaican Government is in a race against time to bolster its coronavirus treatment capacity with almost 40 per cent, or 133, more beds in weeks as an overflow of patients and high infections among healthcare workers put hospitals on the verge......

Tamara Bailey/Gleaner Writer MANDEVILLE, Manchester: The Mandeville Regional Hospital is scrambling to shuttle children out of its Paediatric Ward to create makeshift accommodation for coronavirus patients amid a swell of infections in the parish....

WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has defended the signing of the $422-million emergency vaccine communication contract, even before eyebrows are raised about the massive budget. The one-year contract, which has been awarded to.....

Russia has offered to supply the Jamaican Government with the Sputnik V vaccine amid a record upsurge in coronavirus infections but the Holness administration has reasserted that it would only proceed with jabs approved by global health authorities....

Western Bureau: Despite the blood-curdling murders being committed by some of the nation’s criminals, two former top cops have taken objection to them being referred to as terrorists, saying that the label makes them seem far more powerful than......

Prime Minister Andrew Holness lashed out on Thursday against the scourge of squatting, declaring it a breeder of chaos in the country. Holness said the practice could be traced back to the days of slavery but contended that Jamaica could no longer.....

Domestic violence is one of the driving forces behind violent crime in Jamaica, but retired Deputy Commissioner of Police Novelette Grant is concerned that it is not taken seriously across the society. “I don’t think we understand domestic...

Voluntary enrolment in the National Identification System (NIDS) may not achieve significant buy-in without strong moral suasion and targeted social marketing, a senior technocrat has said. Making a submission before a meeting of the joint select......

The St Catherine Health Department has vowed to intensify COVID-19 mitigation exercises to rein in soaring infections in the parish this month. Chief Public Health Inspector Grayson Hutchinson said that several samples have been submitted to...

Rampant breaches of Jamaica’s coronavirus law in the Spaldings division have prompted the sitting councillor to warn of looming catastrophe if residents and commuters continue to flout safety rules. Trevor Gordon charged that commuters – from......

In an emphatic repudiation of Jamaica’s crime-fighting strategy, three retired police commanders have criticised the sustained use of states of emergency (SOEs) as ineffective. The dour assessment was a sweeping rejection of a key weapon in the.....

Police detentions under the first zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Mount Salem have come under scrutiny after it was revealed that one person out of 582 held over a one-year period was charged with an offence. Seven per cent, or 40, of them...

Work on the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project (SCHIP) resumed yesterday after a five-day suspension triggered by an extortion threat made last Friday. The threat, which was made anonymously via a handwritten note, called for biweekly...

The St Catherine mother whose three-year-old child was seen on a viral video smoking and appearing to drink alchohol has been sentenced to community service. Alecia Fogah, 24, had pleaded guilty to neglect charges in October 2020. She was sentenced....

After leaving high school without a single pass, Afara Pink could have become just another statistic on the conveyor belt of poverty and despair. But her steely will drove her to find a second wind after being blown off course. It’s that never-.....

Retired Superintendent of Police Altamorth ‘Parro’ Campbell was on Wednesday freed in the Kingston Traffic Court of several breaches of the Road Traffic Act. Campbell was pepper-sprayed by a policeman on June 5, 2019, during a traffic stop on......

Western Bureau: Dancehall artiste Moses ‘Beenie Man’ Davis, who was arrested and charged for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA), pleaded not guilty when he appeared before the St Elizabeth Parish Court in Black River yesterday. Th...

The murder of 51-year-old farmer Wilton ‘Choley’ McKenzie has left his family reeling from agony and confusion. On January 29, McKenzie stopped on his bicycle to speak with a coconut vendor in the vicinity of Beach Road, Bull Bay, about 1 p.m. w...

The three soldiers implicated in Keith Clarke’s murder continued their fight in the Court of Appeal on Wednesday as they seek to have the Constitutional Court ruling that the immunity certificates were null and void set aside. Instead, the soldier...

The 11 Jamaica Hope cows stolen from Windalco’s J.J. Gagnon Farm in Manchester on January 12 were tagged under the Government-mandated National Animal Identification and Traceability System and had the company’s JX brand etched on their right si...