WESTERN BUREAU: The American tourist who died from COVID-19 complications at the Cornwall Regional Hospital on Monday was reportedly three months pregnant and suffered from a comorbidity. Thirty-four-year-old Kaishundra Davis died 24 hours after......

The Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) is appealing to the health ministry to facilitate the vaccination of children 16 and older against COVID-19 without parental consent. Some 200,000 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines have been earmarked by......

WESTERN BUREAU: COVID-19 left a trail of death in its path in western Jamaica last weekend, taking with it a high-school teacher, two family-operated gas station proprietors, an auto parts worker, and a popular boutique owner. The diverse profiles.....

WESTERN BUREAU: After refusing to be vaccinated, Westmoreland gas station operator Mike Urel Bacchas saw his wife, Marcia, pass away last Monday from COVID-19, and as he, too, was dying days later, he hoped to recover from the illness to take the......

One of Jamaica’s foremost authorities on environmental and nuclear sciences and decorated scientists, Professor Gerald Lalor, is being mourned after his passing Sunday night at the age of 90. Yesterday, RJRGLEANER Communications Group Chairman...

After sputtering to last place behind a trio of Jamaican sprinters in a hyped clash in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday, Sha’Carri Richardson has been offered a complimentary vacation to the island as an olive branch. Richardson engaged in a post-race....

Several residents of Bentley Lane off Maxfield Avenue in Kingston have packed their bags as a mini exodus spirals following the murder of two people, including a woman, on Sunday. The first of three no-movement days offered no deterrent as...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is conducting an investigation into an apparent localised marine kill along the shoreline of the Hellshire Fishing Village in St Catherine. Dead sea cucumbers, juvenile fish, crabs, and lobsters.....

The Jamaican Government is not considering administering coronavirus vaccines to children under 12 until there is cogent scientific advice approving their use, Minister of Education, Youth and Information Fayval Williams has confirmed. The Holness.....

The ravages of the coronavirus have taken the ultimate toll on one St Elizabeth family whose members are pondering if their relative would still be alive if he had been vaccinated. Andrew Burton, 45, was not an anti-vaxxer, but had reportedly not......

Work at the Jamalco alumina plant in Hayes, Clarendon, could be severely hampered over the next few days and managers may seek assistance from the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to power operations on the heels of a “massive loss” to the.....

Michael Dyke, the man charged with relay duties for Jamaica’s 4x100 metres women’s team at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, said he had no doubt that the islanders would have “destroyed” the world record in the ...

At least two local medical laboratories in Jamaica have the capacity to conduct genome sequencing to detect variants of the coronavirus and could significantly improve the Government’s ability to speedily obtain test results on different strains,....

WESTERN BUREAU: Eleven-year-old Veerendra Biragie has proven that burning the proverbial midnight oil has incredible rewards after being honoured as Jamaica’s top-performing boy in the recent sitting of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination.....

The success of Jamaica’s campaign to immunise tens of thousands of students could rest on the mobilisation of an army of vaccination teams into rural districts and inner-city communities. That is the assessment of Education Minister Fayval William...

Nicola Clarke, the woman who was allegedly set on fire by her partner in a fit of rage in Great River, Hanover, on May 19, died from complications from her burn wounds on Sunday. Natalie Feinberg, a sister of Clarke’s, disclosed that her sister.....

Jamaica’s female sprint stars maintain their dominance on the world stage, even as Elaine Thompson-Herah continues to make history. In the biggest Women’s 100m race of the year outside of the Olympic Games final earlier this month, the Tokyo......

Nicola Clarke, the woman who was set ablaze allegedly by her jealous boyfriend in Great River, Hanover, on May 19 this year, has died. Clarke passed away approximately 5:20 p.m. Sunday at the JMS Burn Center at the Doctors Hospital of Augusta...

Former vaccine hesitant Vivia Kerr and her two daughters – Nadia and Natania – were among those who queued up yesterday, eager to get their first dose of the COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in preparation for face-to-face classes when the new.....

Pauline Knight, the esteemed public servant and wife of retired politician and veteran attorney-at-law K.D. Knight, died on Friday night, becoming one of more than 1,300 local victims of the deadly coronavirus.