Jamaica has been jolted back into lockdown mode owing to a suffocating third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as the Andrew Holness administration continues to fend off deciding whether mandatory vaccination will have to be implemented. Some of the.....

The Ministry of Health and Wellness may face an uphill battle in convincing parents and guardians to have students inoculated during its weekend vaccination blitz targeting children aged 12 to 18. The Holness administration is moving to avert...

WESTERN BUREAU: Pointing to limited resources, the head of the West Regional Health Authority (WRHA) says that insufficient supplies of protective gear for staff could be behind the rising number of healthcare workers at hospitals contracting COVID....

Isat Buchanan, attorney-at-law for incarcerated entertainer Vybz Kartel, has distanced himself from the Fox 5 NY exclusive two-part interview involving his client, which premiered on Wednesday night. The second part was scheduled to be aired...

Long lines for a vaccination campaign offered optimism on Thursday as staffers of the coronavirus-hit Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) poured out for jabs in a bid to shield themselves as Jamaica’s COVID-19 crisis escalates. The robust response - an...

WESTERN BUREAU: Weddings in Las Vegas or Monaco were popular in the mid-1980s, but this was also the era of James Bond, the waterfalls of Ocho Rios, and the music of Bob Marley, separating Jamaica from the pack. Getting married in Jamaica was the......

Church leaders yesterday stood in solidarity with the Ministry of Health and Wellness in encouraging Jamaicans to take up COVID-19 jabs as the island battles a third wave of the pandemic with confirmation of the worrying Delta variant in the island....

Jamaica’s confirmation of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus here has set the Ministry of Health and Wellness scrambling to mobilise resources to rein in a tidal wave of infections that has sparked record-breaking rates of case...

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) elder statesman and former Cabinet minister Derrick Smith landed softly on a $7.5-million consultancy carpet in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) just as he retired from representational politics to usher in...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaicans in Grand Cayman say they were surprised by the strength of Tropical Storm Grace, which battered the island between 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, disrupting electricity and Internet connection as it flooded...

Odaine Latchman still shudders as he replays in his mind how a more than 40-year-old fruit tree snapped, smashing the roof and bulldozing his zinc and board home early Wednesday morning. The collapsed walls of the six-bedroom home at 95 Mark Lane.....

A deadly market truck crash along the Pen Hill road in Manchester, which claimed four lives, including that of a mother of four, jolted relatives and colleagues yesterday, with some fainting over news of the tragic incident. The deceased have been....

Sixty-nine-year-old Amanda Burton resides in New Haven, St Andrew, with her 32-year-old daughter, who has a disability. Early-morning thunder and strong winds triggered by an approaching Tropical Storm Grace on Tuesday jolted her into preparation.....

International outsourcing firm Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) has been jolted into cranking up its campaign to vaccinate reluctant staffers following an outbreak of more than 100 coronavirus infections at its facility which resulted in the passing....

Jamaica escaped the full wrath of Tropical Storm Grace but the weather system left a canvas of catastrophe as it glanced the island’s northeast, leaving roads littered with downed utility poles and fallen trees, homes swamped, vehicles disabled, ...

Lawyers hired by a disgruntled mother have written to the Bustamante Hospital for Children to have an independent pathologist oversee the post-mortem of her two-month-old daughter who died suddenly after being admitted for a cough. The infant,...

It was just after 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon and shopkeeper Latoya Campbell was perched on a stool outside her business place in Bannister, St Catherine, just like she had done so many times before. However, this wasn’t like any other day. Not wit...

WESTERN BUREAU: COVID-19 pushed the crisis-hit healthcare sector in western Jamaica perilously close to breaking point on Tuesday when overworked nurses and colleague workers at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland temporarily withdrew their....

As Tropical Storm Grace’s whipping wind and rain pelted Shooters Hill and Weise Road in Bull Bay on Tuesday, residents shovelled way mounds of silt, wary of a replay of last year’s flooding nightmare at the back end of the hurricane season. The....

“We are in grave danger, to put it bluntly.” That’s the frank assessment of Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) President Dr Andrew Manning as the island saw a record high 46.1 per cent positivity rate in COVID-19 testing on Sunday, as report...