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.....

The pastor of a church in Windsor Heights, St Ann’s Bay, has been charged with breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act after the police were called to a worship service. Charged is Christine McLean of the City of Refuge Endtime Prophetic...

Reggae icon Bunny Wailer’s legacy extends beyond his music and was largely influenced by radicalisation having been born in the 1940s at a time when the pressures of colonial life weighed heavily on poor black people. Born Neville Livingston, the...

Like reggae king Bob Marley, Neville Livingston attended Stepney Primary School in St Ann as youngsters, having moved to the Garden Parish from his birthplace in Kingston. For years, he and his younger sisters, Vinette, Millicent, and Pearl, made....

Approximately 65 per cent of Jamaicans are being targeted for vaccination by March 2022. However, health officials are wary that vaccine hesitancy might affect that ambitious goal. The country is expected to receive its first batch of 50,000...

A dispute over the dumping of garbage led to the murder of a 19-year-old woman and the wounding of another in the rural community of Carlton Mountain, near Claremont in St Ann, on Tuesday. The police are now seeking a security guard for...

The children of Allman Town have made an earnest plea to their fellow community members to bring violence to an end as they desire to experience more peace. Up to Monday, 17 murders and 13 shootings were recorded in the Kingston Central Police...

The two St Catherine men charged with manslaughter arising from the death of a two-year-old boy are to set to reappear in the St Catherine Parish Court next month. Dead is Tayshawn McDonald of March Pen Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Those...

Forty-year-old Nadeen Geddes was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of her 36-year-old sister Tamara Geddes on Tuesday. Tamara was shot and killed inside her home at Reserve district in Trelawny on June 19, 2020. Her 10-year-old...

A two-week ban on funerals and burials has drawn the ire of stakeholders in the industry, with warnings of mayhem as bereaved families rush to bring forward the final rites to beat the deadline. The order was imposed by Prime Minister Andrew...

Education ministers across the region have given unanimous approval for the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) to conduct its 2021 sitting despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which has shuttered some schools for months. It was a unanimous decision of....

WESTERN BUREAU: Members of the clergy in western Jamaica say the disparity in the most recent COVID-19 containment measures announced on Sunday by Prime Minister Andrew Holness covering weddings, funerals and church services leaves room for...

Government debt owing to The University of the West Indies (UWI) has been significantly reduced from US$117 million in July 2014 to US$51 million in November 2020. And of The UWI’s five campuses across the region, only Mona has relied on debt...

Sundays – the days usually reserved for worship, rest, reflection and recreation – have been transformed into a time of chilly uneasiness for residents of Howard Avenue off Waltham Park Road in the Corporate Area, as they are almost certain to b...

From around 6, Kresten Stewart nurtured dreams of one day serving her country as a policewoman. Having applied to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and gone through an interview, she was closer to fulfilment. The 27-year-old woman, who is on...

Former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and four other People’s National Party (PNP) members are now awaiting the decision of the Privy Council, which will make the final determination on whether they will testify in open court in the Trafigur...

The medical doctor who treated 17-year-old Kaylan Dowdie, who was brutally beaten to the brink of death last November, is to appear in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on March 10 to update the court on the teenager’s condition. The judge,....

The Government has announced that it has reached a deal with the African Medical Supply Platform for the delivery of 1.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, starting next month. The announcement comes as the Holness administration is under...

The only money Narda McKoy had in her purse was her 17-year-old daughter’s college tuition, but she would have spent every cent without hesitation Friday night for some oxygen at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), where she had......

The occupants of a deregistered plane that crash-landed on a Rocky Point beach in January have reportedly fled the country, and the Government has given the clearest indication that the aircraft was on a smuggling mission. The plane had intended to....