Despite the Govern­ment’s proposed roll-out of its $60 billion SERVE Jamaica programme this fiscal year, the parliamentary Opposition says the administration’s budgetary allocation is insufficient to tackle the deepening economic and social fal...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says Jamaica is to receive a shipment of 14,400 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine next Monday as the island steps up its COVID-19 vaccination drive. He said that this is the first delivery under the....

Nurse Shauna Callum-Lindsay and Doctor Sandra Doe*, both healthcare workers at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), have experienced both joy and fear in the past year as expectant mothers on the COVID-19 front lines. Thirty-nine-...

A Clarendon councillor has called on Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton to take the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine publicly to inspire confidence in the shots among Jamaicans. Councillor...

Eighty-one-year-old retired nurse Herma Bryant-Manning was among those stepping forward for her first jab of the AstraZeneca vaccine for protection from the deadly coronavirus at the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon yesterday. “I have seen what is......

A former ward of the State who claimed that he was forced to murder Simone Campbell-Collymore as repayment for a missing gun has now asked the family to forgive him for the immense suffering that he has caused. He is also hoping that the family of....

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: The health authorities in Manchester are now seeking additional space in Mandeville to continue its vaccination programme, which it kicked off on Wednesday with front-line healthcare workers at the Mandeville Regional...

Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson railed against a plan by the Universal Service Fund (USF) to outfit only two sites in each of the 63 constituencies across the island with Internet access in the 2021-2022 fiscal year. Initially, the....

The police are asking alleged Bedward Gardens gangster Akeem ‘Duppy O’ Thomas, who they say is a top-tier member of the Berry Gang, to turn himself in to the nearest police station immediately. On the heels of Thomas’ interview with The Gleane...

The Opposition is pushing for the Government to spend $21.5 billion more to accelerate economic growth.  In his contribution to the Budget Debate, Julian Robinson, the Opposition spokesman on finance said the additional expenditure would...

A year to the day Jamaica recorded its first coronavirus infection, healthcare workers pulled up their sleeves and launched a pivotal assault on a disease that has crippled the country. Public health nurse Marcia Thomas-Yetman, who was pictured on.....

“I don’t want to die today.” Those were the soft-spoken words of Bedward Gardens resident Akeem ‘Duppy O’ Thomas on Wednesday during a despairing phone call to The Gleaner shortly before negotiations for his surrender...

Young vaccine naysayers have been warned to learn at the feet of elders about the benefits of inoculation to Jamaica following devastating outbreaks in the 1980s that crippled the society. That advice came from veteran broadcaster and...

After experiencing prolonged flulike symptoms, Michael Woods took the plunge and went to his family doctor to get checked out. The last thing the now 58-year-old photographer expected to hear, after several assessments, was that he had colorectal......

Head of the paediatric department at the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital, Dr Coralie Antoine, has added her voice to those encouraging Jamaicans to take the AstraZeneca vaccine for the COVID-19 virus. Antoine, who was the first person in St Ann to...

The Jamaican Bar Association has raised concern that there is no provision in the current National Identification and Registration Act (NIRA) for an individual’s data to be purged from the database if a cancellation is requested. Making a...

The slaying of a 52-year-old disabled man, allegedly by his 21-year-old son, in Greater Portmore, St Catherine, has left a family in turmoil. Residents are equally shocked about the tragedy, which unfolded at about 8:50 p.m. on Monday, claiming the....

Professor Edwin Jones has been hailed as a Caribbean luminary with a passion for public policy and management who distinguished himself as the go-to man on deep philosophical matters. Jones, who had been ailing for some time, died at hospital on......

President of the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ), Dr Andrew Manning, has asserted that if a significant percentage of healthcare workers decline to take the COVID-19 vaccine, it could spell trouble for public health. Three nurses died from...

Public health nurse Marcia Thomas Yetman was the first to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Jamaica this morning. She was inoculated at the Good Samaritan Inn in St Andrew by public health nurse Fiona Ellis. Thomas Yetman is among a host of...