The Jamaican Government could spend US$14.7 million, approximately J$2.3 billion, to purchase a cache of 1.972 million doses of the Johnson...

Jamaican hospital administrators exhaled on Monday as new supplies of oxygen flowed into cylinders, breathing new life into a healthcare system starved of reserves amid a suffocating wave of coronavirus infections. Predawn collection of imported...

A Jamaican woman who arranged more than two dozen sham marriages as part of an elaborate scheme to obtain green cards for herself and other non-American citizens is heading to prison in the United States (US). Between 2011 and 2017, Jodian...

WESTERN BUREAU: Prominent western Jamaica educator Jeannette Solomon has died from complications from the coronavirus, one of 1,510 people who have succumbed here to the ravages of the disease in the 17 months of the pandemic. Her death was a...

Fifteen-year-old Kevin McKenzie had been looking forward to the start of the new academic year next Monday. His mother, Marcia Brissett, told The Gleaner that she had already bought Kevin’s school shoes despite the uncertainty as to when face-to-....

It was after listening to former government minister K.D. Knight sharing the story of his wife Dr Pauline Knight’s death over a week ago to COVID-19 on Radio Jamaica’s ‘Hotline’ that Neil Newell had a change of heart, deciding to take become...

WESTERN BUREAU: As the ministry kick-started a vaccination drive to have 170,000 industry workers vaccinated yesterday, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett attempted to walk back comments made two weeks ago because of pushback on the domestic front.......

Residents of Port Royal in Kingston were awakened yesterday to sirens and a heavy police deployment with a manhunt under way inland and along the shoreline for three prisoners who went missing before dawn. The men on the run have been identified......

WESTERN BUREAU: Two men were shot and killed and a woman seriously injured at an illegal party staged in defiance of the Disaster Risk Management Act in Bogue Hill on the outskirts of Montego Bay on Friday night. One of the deceased has been...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Healthcare workers at the Mandeville Regional Hospital are struggling to decide which patients are administered oxygen support and which ones have to wait – a crisis exacerbated in the last week as coronavirus infections an...

Tropical Storm Ida is estimated to have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to central Jamaica after heavy rains unleashed a trail of destruction in the Clarendon district of Wakefield. That’s the view of Clarendon North Western Membe...

All things begin from Scratch. Reggae historian Roger Steffens’ simple yet profound conclusion captured the genius of Jamaican music’s quintessential eccentric Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, whose praise in death was as loud as his acclaim in life. T...

University of the West Indies Guild President Danielle Mullings has come out in support of the decision taken by the Mona campus to bar accommodation on halls of residence to students who are not vaccinated against COVID-19. The directive issued......

Several authorised workers were miffed after being turned away from KFC locations on Sunday and were advised to use the E-commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS) portal to facilitate quick-service food deliveries from registered businesses....

When Clinton Boothe didn’t see his 78-year-old brother-in-law return home all day after trudging off in knee-high water Friday morning, he became haunted by a nagging sense of dread. The body of Dennis Jackson, found slumped over a metal pipe that...

Despondent residents of Danvers Pen in St Thomas are once again sounding the alarm for state authorities to maintain the Negro River, which threatens the community whenever it rains. They say the river needs to be properly trained. Farmer and...

Jamaica’s healthcare system was plunged into crisis mode on Saturday, as word came that IGL – the country’s sole producer of medical oxygen – is running low on the much-needed commodity and would not be getting another supply until Monday...

Twenty-seven-year-old Mervin Kelly is being hailed as a hero in the community of Cave Valley in St Ann after he rescued a male driver and a little girl from a car that was completely submerged on a flooded road in the town on Friday. Heavy rains......

Jamaica’s most famous state of emergency (SOE) detainee, retired Speaker of the House of Representatives, Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister, Pearnel Charles Sr, said he would never have spent 283 days in detention at Up Park Camp in 1977.....

The ambience. Memorable sunsets. Signature seven miles of white sand beach. An array of the world’s finest in hospitality. These have all made Negril a favourite for the casual and adventurous alike. But while the rustic resort town on the west.....