WESTERN BUREAU: The country’s youth are to be given priority in accessing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is being touted as one of the safest for use in children and adolescents, when 200,000 doses arrive in the island next week to boost the.....

Bus and taxi fares are to be increased by 15 per cent across the island come Monday, August 16, the transport ministry announced last evening in the first adjustment to rates in eight years. Transport operators have been clamouring for an increase.....

Two businessmen suspected of being the masterminds behind a failed $50-million cocaine shipment destined for the United Kingdom (UK) are now behind bars, accused of the dramatic kidnapping and pummelling of a customs broker they believed foiled the....

Suffering from underlying illnesses such as hypertension and diabetes, which run in her family, Fay Matherson says she is still fearful of taking the COVID-19 vaccine due to possible adverse effects. However, she explained that this fear is nothing....

Ninety-two per cent of females have missed school or work for three days due to severe pain associated with menstruation, in the absence of a pelvic disease, a recent study has revealed. Dysmenorrhea, as the condition is known, is one of the most.....

LONDON, United Kingdom: Now that last-ditch efforts gained a temporary reprieve on Wednesday, United Kingdom (UK)-based human rights groups and activists say the hard work now begins to continue the fight to halt further deportation flights and...

WESTERN BUREAU: As the island witnesses a third COVID-19 wave, a group of medical practitioners are lobbying for the implementation of early home-based treatment to minimise hospitalisations and death in the country. The doctors, who staged a press....

Fisherfolk at the Portmore fishing beach at Dyke Road in the St Catherine municipality are appealing to the security forces to help keep away unscrupulous individuals from the property following yesterday’s shooting of two men close to the seaside...

Cruise ships will be making calls to Jamaican ports very soon, but Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who made the disclosure last evening, failed to provide any details about the timeline even as he emphasised the importance of walking a tightrope...

While some parents are making plans for the new school year, mother of five Tanisha Sewell is just trying to keep food on the table and keep a roof over her and her children’s heads. She cannot even look as far as a month ahead as her children...

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has said that there is no excuse for Jamaicans to now not take the COVID-19 vaccine, emphasising its importance in crippling the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking yesterday at the commissioning of 207 new justices of the...

A Gregory Park family is mourning the loss of two relatives who were killed in separate incidents a day apart in the low-income St Catherine community, which has recorded three murders since Sunday. In the latest killing yesterday, unknown...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday hailed the acquisition of the Jamaica lll, a state-of-the-art utility vessel, by the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) as an indication of the Government’s thrust to modernise public infrastructure and...

Negril’s Hedonism II has confirmed that some staff and guests have tested positive for COVID-19 in what it has described as “a very small outbreak” at the resort in recent weeks. However, the resort has taken issue with yesterday’s Gleaner l...

KLAS Sports radio has been ordered by the Supreme Court to disclose, before September 24, copies of its audited financial statements for 2015-2020 to the Jamaica Association of Authors, Composers and Publishers Association (JACAP), which has...

WESTERN BUREAU: With the judicial system in western Jamaica taking a battering from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the shutting down of the parish courts in St James and Westmoreland earlier this week, the St James Health...

WESTERN BUREAU: A cluster of COVID-19 cases numbering close to 50 within the last two weeks – the majority discovered in recent days – at the Hedonism II resort in Negril has triggered a wave of concern as health authorities seek to contain what...

Twenty-six-year-old Rejeen Morrison was admitted in hospital on March 11 for diabetic ketoacidosis, a complication associated with lupus. Morrison has several comorbidities, including trigeminal neuralgia, idiopathic autoimmune hepatitis,...

Jamaica-born nurse Dr Sandra Lindsay is urging the Government to determine the main reasons Jamaicans are hesitant about taking the COVID-19 vaccine in order to provide practical solutions and boost take-up amid rising infection numbers in the...

President of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) Lloyd Distant has indicated that if a decision has been made to prosecute parliamentarians who have breached the Integrity Commission Act and this was akin to a charge and arrest being made, the...