With anxiety heightening as Jamaica’s coronavirus infections skyrocketed Saturday to a record toll of 726 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...

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...

She was a victim at the hands of father figures and a mother who chose to look the other way. But Shawnafi Dynesen, a native of Bath, St Thomas, has turned a history of pain into a road map of redemption and strength. The 42-year-old, who now lives....

Describing the spike in COVID-19 cases in Portland as alarming, Port Antonio Mayor Paul Thompson is appealing for residents to be more responsible and to adhere to health and safety protocols. Thompson’s comments came hours after the Ministry of....

WESTERN BUREAU: Former president of the Jamaica Court of Appeal, retired Justice Seymour Panton, has accused some of the country’s educators of not doing enough in the fight to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Panton, who retired from the Bench in...

The first African American woman to be appointed professor of surgery at New York University Langone Grossman School of Medicine is Jamaica-born Dr Kathie-Ann Joseph. She also assumes the rank of professor in population health, where she holds dual....

SEVEN people, including a 16-year-old boy, were murdered in St James and Westmoreland during a bloody weekend in which a 13-year-old student was left nursing gunshot wounds at hospital. Those killed in St James have been identified as 33-year-old......

They are incarcerated. Some for stomach-churning crimes fitting the most macabre movies. Yet they wield cell phones at will, recording fights, ‘lavish’ parties and even using them to intimidate and order the deaths of Jamaicans beyond their...

Jamaica’s major hospitals are teetering on the very thin edge of collapse as some have either run out oxygen stock or are dangerously low amid rising COVID-19 hospitalisations and the resulting demands for the life-preserving chemical. “There i...

Nearly 400 appeals filed in the last four years challenging rulings handed down by Jamaica’s high and parish courts have stalled because of the absence of transcripts. Between 2016 and February 22 this year, a total of 311 transcripts and 67 judg...

Clifton Reader, the president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association, has already made it clear that as far as the hospitality sector is concerned, the COVID-19 vaccination programme can’t begin soon enough. In fact, more than six weeks ago,...

“Need help. Get help. My body is weak. My battery is dead.” Those were the piercing, desperate appeals of 32-year-old Shenay Spencer, in the early hours of Tuesday, March 2, to her relatives. Texting her loved ones was the last resort for the.....

A man is now in police custody and his cronies are being sought by the police after they carried out a brazen daylight shooting of a man at about 2 p.m. yesterday in Braeton, Portmore, St Catherine. Rohan Martin, 42, had just left the burial of his....

WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Seymour Panton, retired president of Jamaica’s Court of Appeal, has labelled as “time-wasting nonsense”, the ongoing Trafigura court case involving former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and four other People’s....

Former chairman of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), Hyacinth ‘Cindy’ Lightbourne, has criticised Audley Shaw for making “unfortunate and inaccurate” statements about the agency. The industry, investment and commerce minister said the ...

One hundred-year-old Muriel Duncan has lived a life dedicated to education and the work of the Lord. “I’m fine, thank God. Just watching the TV and praising God for His mercy,” said a bubbly Duncan in a telephone interview with The Gleaner on...

The African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB) is pleased with the extended reach of its recently concluded lecture series, which was staged virtually this year because of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Each February, the...

A senior opposition lawmaker raised concern on Wednesday that the integrity of Jamaica’s electoral process could be at risk if steps were not taken to replace the automated fingerprint identification system that is at the end of its useful life......

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,.....