Less than seven weeks after the initial opening up of the entertainment sector, the Government has pulled the plug as the island is experiencing a third wave of COVID-19 with high levels of hospitalisations, climbing infection rates and mounting...

Although relieved that the man accused of raping her 12-year-old daughter at gunpoint on Mother’s Day has met his demise, a St Catherine mother is harbouring fears that with the pre-teen exhibiting signs of pregnancy and battling a sexually...

ST THOMAS: Olympic gold medallist Hansle Parchment is encouraging the undiluted support of all athletes, regardless of how one may have performed. The shine of his medal dimmed in comparison to the intensity of the love the 31-year-old champion......

Grassroots Windrush organisations in the United Kingdom (UK) have renewed calls for a cessation or moratorium on deportation flights until the Windrush Scandal is fully addressed. At least 30 Jamaicans have been issued deportation orders for a...

WESTERN BUREAU: As the island grapples with a surge in COVID-19 cases, readjustments are being done for shift assignments and monitoring of oxygen usage at medical facilities in under the umbrella of the the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA.....

DOWNS, Manchester: They were just about seven minutes from home on their way back from a drive to Ocho Rios in St Ann, but they never made it. Thirty-three-year-old Rassie Tafari Phillips as well as 36-year-old Sanjay Caine and his 14-year-old...

Chairman Edmund Bartlett says lawmakers who sit on the Integrity Commission Oversight Committee (ICOC) will be called from their summer break to examine a backlog of annual reports tabled by the anti-corruption body. Bartlett told The Gleaner last.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Financial controller Conroy Barrett, one of the two employees of the Negril-based Rick’s Cafe Sports Bar who were charged in relation to the Mocha Fest event, which was staged at the location in contravention of the Disaster Risk.....

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) yesterday minted Jamaica’s first batch of central bank digital currency (CBDC). A total of J$230 million in CBDC will be issued to deposit-taking institutions and authorised payment service providers during the CBDC pilo...

Eight-year-old Xavier ‘Bojo’ Phillips had plans to call his father yesterday, but that is a call his father will never get as an early morning attack by gunmen left the child dead. Little Xavier was shot and killed in the Howells Content area of...

Four board members of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) were dumped in July, weeks after a meeting they insisted on to get the position of president advertised and a forensic audit done of more than $300 million worth of...

As the Government prepares for the possibility of the full resumption of face-to-face education in September, public-health experts and educators are expressing concern about the health and safety of students, the majority of whom commute via...

As COVID-19 cases continue to climb across the island, plunging the country into a third wave of the virus, the Ministry of Health is reporting that all large hospitals are now over their capacity for admissions. According to Permanent Secretary in....

CLARENDON: Nurse Sandra Lindsay, who made history on December 14 in the United States by being the first person to take the COVID-19 vaccine in New York, is appealing to Jamaicans to join in the fight against the debilitating virus by also taking.....

Audrey Smith Facey was known as the strongest of the three councillors Portia Simpson Miller had in her political arsenal in St Andrew South Western for nearly two decades, and she was widely expected to replace the member of parliament (MP) when......

MANDEVILLE, MANCHESTER: At its 98th commencement and graduation ceremony yesterday, where over 500 students were presented with degrees, the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) conferred an Honorary Doctor of Liberal Arts Degree on veteran...

Permanent Secretary in the Health Ministry Dunstan Bryan is reporting that all large hospitals are now over their capacity for COVID admissions. According to Byran in the west, where the situation is especially bad, some medical staff are being...

A Jamaican farm worker remains in critical condition under intensive care at a Canadian hospital after being stabbed by a colleague on Friday. The names of the injured worker and his attacker have not been released. The circumstances that led...

Jamaica's COVID worry deepened over the weekend with more deaths, hospitalisations and infections across the country. According to the Ministry of Health, there were three deaths on Saturday. Latest COVID deaths 1. A 62-year-old female...

TOKYO, Japan: Nine medals on paper show Jamaica’s lowest haul at the Olympic Games since the 2004 installment in Athens, but, in reality, it represented significant success for a transitioning Jamaican team, highlighted by the coronation of Elaine...