WESTERN BUREAU: Eight-year-old Ravi and six-year-old Rebbekah crave the embrace of their dad, Richard Peters, who remains critically ill in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Cornwall Regional Hospital. The two, who have a strong bond with their.....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness used the occasion of his COVID-9 inoculation at the Good Samaritan Inn on Monday to reiterate his support for the National Identification System (NIDS), insisting that the registration process would have been much...

Calls to the toll-free (888) ONE-LOVE telephone line spiked approximately 25 per cent on the first day of COVID-19 vaccination registration for persons 75 and older, said itelbpo CEO Yoni Epstein. The Government is banking on high interest in take-....

WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness had no choice but to suspend face-to-face classes for students preparing to sit external examinations in the wake of an unprecedented wave of COVID-19 cases islandwide. That is the view of Jamaica...

Lawmakers will today debate the Disaster Risk Management (Amendment) Act, 2021, which, among other things, will seek to introduce a ticketing system with fines for persons who refuse to wear a mask in public spaces. The pending law sets out a range....

COVID-19 was the last thing on the mind of Verez Brown when she ventured out to the wake of a resident who had passed in January. Little did the woman of Fairfield district, St Catherine, know that the dreaded pandemic she had sought to evade would....

WESTERN BUREAU: A high-profile St James gangster who was recently convicted of murder is to be sentenced in the St James Circuit Court today. Omar Troy Johnson, 24, of Buck Toe Lane in Salt Spring, is a reputed top-tier member of the G-City gang......

Shanae Smith, an 11th-grader at Dunoon Park Technical High School, attended face-to-face classes up to last Thursday in preparation for external examinations. That routine has been brought to a screeching halt by the Holness administration’s...

The bail application for Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, who is accused of orchestrating the murders of his two wives in separate incidents, has been postponed to April 13 in the Home Circuit Court. McDonald is facing two.....

Face-to-face classes have been shut down for all students and lockdowns imposed for three weekends from March 26 until April 12 as the Holness administration seeks to rein in a runaway wave of COVID-19 infections. The country has recorded 533...

Complaints of misconduct by the army and police force skyrocketed last year as the Holness administration increased its reliance on states of emergency (SOEs) and joint patrols to rein in crime. But analysis does not suggest that the widening...

The Government is not shy in admitting that the global shortage of COVID-19 vaccines is weighing on the mind of the Holness administration, but it is holding firm that it will only use products approved by the World Health Organization (WHO). That.....

Kenny Robinson, the father of 12-year-old Marquis, is a nervous man. Marquis, who suffers from a condition known as slipped upper femoral epiphysis (SUFE), has undergone two surgeries to correct the problem and is slated to do a third. But a...

Nurse Sheffanese Knight has been administering the COVID-19 Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine since March 10, and she has had to find creative means of calming those whose phobias magnify needles into swords. Among the playful strategies she uses is to......

The funeral sector, which had squealed when the Government shut down burials and funerals as unruly mourners flouted COVID-19 containment rules, is again crying foul even as some measures will be relaxed. During a press conference at Jamaica House....

The police and the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) have launched probes into the stabbing death of a detainee, allegedly by another inmate, at the Negril lock-up in Westmoreland on Friday night. The dead prisoner has been...

HEALTHCARE OFFICIALS have expressed optimism that Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton’s decision on Friday to get the COVID-19 jab will be a shot in the arm for the islandwide vaccination drive. Tufton and Prime Minister Andrew...

Montego Bay-based Bioprist Pharmaceuticals, a company led by medical doctor and entrepreneur Dr Guna Muppuri, has signed a deal for the exclusive importation and distribution in Jamaica of the India-made COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin. Made by Indian...

Jamaica on Saturday recorded another nine COVID deaths pushing the tally to 533. At the same time, there were 673 new COVID cases with ages ranging from 10 days to 108 years. COVID deaths A 72-year-old man from Kingston and St Andrew A 82...

Sixteen-year-old Ahyele Rodney has come to a crossroads – if not a dead end – in his pursuit of becoming a doctor and one day taking care of his mom, who is suffering from a mental illness. At least that’s how the student of Central High in......